Control who can see your content

• Make your forum private
• Make your forum invite-only
• Make a category private to certain users only
• Password protect your entire forum or a specific category.
• Prevent users in specific countries from viewing the forum.
• Only allow users from specific countries to view the forum.
• Remove the message from post notification emails.

Control who can join

• Approve users before they can begin using your forum.
• Require users to confirm their email address when signing up for a new account.
• Only allow users to sign up with an email address from approved domains.

Stop spam and moderate content

• Enable human verification to prevent automated programs from signing up and posting spam.
• Ban users.
• Approve a user's first post, first few posts, posts with links, user's first post with links, all posts before they go live on your forum.
• Censor words.
• Assign moderators to help oversee categories, calendars, and other content.

Protect accounts

• Use SSL (HTTPS) with your forum.
• Enable two-factor authentication in your Website Toolbox account.
• Require two-factor authentication for specific user groups.
• Disable the automatic log in feature.

You can use the security feature that works best for you or even use a combination of those features.

You can also view a list of all of the features, including those that aren't related to security.