Emergency Panel Configuration Guide
This article provides a detailed guide on configuring essential settings in the Emergency Panel. This feature allows you to:
- Terminate all active sessions.
- Freeze access to predefined devices.
- Block access to Segura™, including via API or EPM, for a set period.
Prerequisites
- System Administrator role.
- MFA enabled for the user.
Terminate Sessions
This action closes all ongoing sessions managed by Segura™. To prevent new sessions from starting, enable Freezing or Lockdown. Freezing also ends ongoing sessions on the frozen devices. For details, see What freezing blocks.
- In Segura™, hover over the Emergency Panel and select Terminate Sessions.
- Enter the Access Token generated by MFA.
If you do not have an MFA authenticator registered, this action cannot be performed. Additionally, Segura™ will prompt you to register an MFA authenticator.
- Click Validate Token.
- Enter the Justification and, if applicable, the Governance Code.
- Click Apply.
Enable Freezing
If you do not have an MFA authenticator registered, this action cannot be performed. Additionally, Segura™ will prompt you to register an MFA authenticator.
- During freezing, users will not be able to start sessions on predefined devices. Only administrators will have access during this period.
- If the Block During Freezing? option is enabled in the access group, all devices belonging to that group will be frozen.
- In Segura™, hover over the Emergency Panel and select Freezing.
- Click Validate Token.
- Set the Start and Duration of the freezing period.
- Enter the Justification and, if necessary, the Governance Code.
- Click Save.
What freezing blocks
- When the freezing period starts immediately, Segura™ ends the ongoing sessions on frozen devices for users who do not have emergency panel control.
- Segura™ blocks a session request when the target device or the credential's device is frozen, including requests that name no target device.
- When the access policy mode is static:
- Access policies that bind only credentials, without devices, are not frozen, even with Block During Freezing? enabled.
- Segura™ fixes the list of frozen devices at activation. An access policy created after activation is not frozen.
Disable Freezing
- In Segura™, hover over the Emergency Panel and select Freezing.
- Click Validate Token.
- Enter the Justification and, if necessary, the Governance Code.
- Click Save.
Enable Lockdown
- Lockdown blocks all access to Segura™, including the web interface, API calls, and access via EPM. Only administrators will have access to the system.
- This action may cause downtime for services using the Segura™ API.
To enable lockdown, follow these steps:
- In Segura™, hover over the Emergency Panel and select Lockdown.
- Enter the Access Token generated by MFA.
If you do not have an MFA authenticator registered, this action cannot be performed. Additionally, Segura™ will prompt you to register an MFA authenticator.
- Click Validate Token.
- Set the Start and Duration of the lockdown.
- Enter the Justification and, if necessary, the Governance Code.
- Click Save.
Disable Lockdown
- In Segura™, hover over the Emergency Panel and select Lockdown.
- Click Validate Token.
- Enter the Justification and, if necessary, the Governance Code.
- Click Save.
Add Notifications to the Emergency Panel
To add notifications to the Emergency Panel, follow these steps:
- In Segura™, in the navigation bar, hover over the Product Menu and select Settings.
- In the side menu, select Notifications > Global Notifications.
- In the Global Notifications report, click Add.
- In the Register Notification screen:
- Name: enter the notification name.
- Choose how the user will be notified: Email, Screen, or SMS.
- If necessary, check Send notifications only to contacts with access to credentials or devices.
- In the Notification tab, click Add to open the Notifications modal.
- In the Notifications modal, type
Emergency Paneland click Filter. - Select one or more notifications.
- Click Add.
- In the Notifications modal, type
- In the Contacts tab, click Add to open the Contacts modal.
- In the Contacts modal, select the contacts who will receive the notifications.
- Click Add.
- In the Review tab, click Save.