How To Bypass Fortiguard Intrusion Prevention - Access Blocked [top] May 2026

Bypassing FortiGuard Intrusion Prevention or Web Filtering depends on whether you have administrative access or are a standard user attempting to reach blocked content. For Administrators (Resolving Blocked Access)

This doesn’t bypass signature matching—only threshold-based blocking. create a new entry

. Within the IPS profile, create a new entry, select the relevant signature, and add the target IPs to the Exempt IPs Static URL Filtering : For web-based blocks, navigate to Security Profiles > Web Filter and add the URL to the Static URL Filter list. Setting the action to allows the traffic to bypass further inspections. Web Rating Overrides select the relevant signature

If you have administrative access and want to allow specific "Lifestyle and Entertainment" sites while keeping the general block in place: create a new entry