Turn on security

Switch on Element's security modules in a safe order, starting with logging and anti-nuke, without catching your own staff.

  • About 6 minutes
  • In Discord
  • 6 steps

Before you start

  • To be the server owner (or an Extra Owner or Trusted Admin)
  • Element's role at the top of the role list, or as high as you can put it

Move Element's role to the top

Security can only act on members whose highest role is below Element's. To protect the server from a compromised admin, Element's role needs to be above theirs.

In Server Settings › Roles, drag Element's role to the top, or as close as you can.

Roles — 5

  1. ElementAt the top
  2. Admin
  3. Moderator
  4. Member
  5. @everyone

Open the security settings

Run /security settings. The overview lists every module and whether it's on. Every module starts off, so nothing happens until you switch one on.

Only the server owner can open it at first.

staff

Commands matching /security

  • /security settingsManage Security settings.APP
  • /security whitelistWhitelist a member, role, text channel, voice channel, category channel, or webhook from Security.APP
/security settingspage:overview

Set up logging first

Open the Logging page and pick where each kind of event is logged. With logging on, you can see what the other modules would do before trusting them with your members.

staff
/security settingspage:logging

Add the people you trust

On the Authority members page, add your co-owners as Extra Owners (up to 5) and your most trusted admins as Trusted Admins (up to 8). They can change Security's settings.

staff
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Security — Authority Members

💥 Trusted Admins and Extra Owners are 100% immune to Security, meaning they will NEVER be punished by Security for anything they do.

Extra Owners (1/5):

- @Carbon

Trusted Admins (0/8):

Turn on anti-nuke

Open Anti Nuke and switch it on. It watches for destructive actions, like mass bans or channel deletions, by members or bots, and quarantines whoever does them.

Then add the rest you need, one at a time: Anti Raid, Join Gate and Verification for new members, Auto Mod for spam, and so on. The security page lists what each does.

staff
/security settingspage:anti_nuke

Whitelist what trips it by mistake

If a trusted bot or channel keeps setting a module off, run /security whitelist with it. Pick only the checks it needs to skip, and give a duration if it's temporary.

/mod quarantine and /mod unquarantine quarantine a member by hand, and /security lastactions shows recent audit log actions when you need to see who did what.

staff

Commands matching /mod

  • /mod quarantineQuarantine a member.APP
  • /mod unquarantineUnquarantine a member.APP
/security whitelist_object:@Helper Bot

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