Can I change security settings of my survey mid-field (bot-detection)? | XM Community
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Hi! I started distributing my survey for my master thesis yesterday and today I noticed a couple of responses that don’t make any sense and might be related to bot activity. Unfortunately, I did not enable the security settings for bot detection and the security scan monitor before publishing and distributing an anonymous links to my survey.  

In the FAQs for fraud detection it only says you have to enable these settings before data collection. But I wonder, can I still change these settings now and republish or is that not possible / will impact my survey in a negative way?

Thanks in advance for your help! 

Hi @Vroni_E ,

You will have to pause the fielding .
Enable the Fraud detection settings and republished them.
Only issue you may face  is with respondent who have already completed the survey or have started the survey will not be affected by these changes.
But all the  new responders will be screened on updated security settings who come after the changes are published..

Hope this resolves you query😊!!

@qualtrics_nerd Thank you for your reply! 

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