Compatibility Workarounds

Compatibility workarounds let you adjust specific product settings to address rare cases where security features conflict with certain third-party software.

Use these options with caution and only if you've noticed unusual behavior in another application. Some settings may reduce system performance or lower overall security.

Web Access and Email Protection Tweaks

Use these compatibility tweaks if you notice that the product's Web & Email protection network filter on macOS conflicts with another third-party application.

Improve compatibility with local proxy

Enabling this tweak may increase system resource usage, as it attempts a direct connection first—even when proxies are configured. If it fails, the system will still try connecting through the proxies.

Network Access Protection Tweaks

Use these compatibility tweaks if you notice that the product's Network Access protection network content filter on macOS conflicts with another third-party application.

Improve compatibility with applications that communicate locally

Enabling this tweak allows local connections between applications on this device without evaluating them against the product's firewall rules.

Process only basic protocols (TCP or UDP) by product's Firewall

Enabling this tweak limits processing to TCP and UDP traffic only. Other protocols, such as ICMP (ping), are not evaluated against product's firewall rules.