# Your protection status at a glance

> The protection status card tells you at a glance how well your Mac is protected, and lets you change the place, the mode and the kill switch without opening another screen.

FireAI Docs (HisnLabs) · Feature · Available since FireAI 0.1.0
Canonical: https://hisnlabs.com/fireai/en/docs/protection-status-at-a-glance

**Where in FireAI:** Sidebar, bottom card

One look tells you whether FireAI is really protecting you right now, and one click changes it.

## What it does for you

The card sits under the mascot at the bottom of the sidebar, so it is always in view. It answers the two questions that matter: is FireAI running, and is it set up well?

## How to read it

| You see | It means |
| --- | --- |
| Protection: Strong | The filter is running, protection is on, and your setup scores 75 or more out of 100. |
| Protection: Needs attention | Everything runs, but the setup could be stronger. Home lists the tips that raise the score. |
| Protection: Off | You paused protection with the switch: connections are shown, nothing is blocked or asked. |
| Protection: Not running | The network filter isn’t running yet. Open Setup to finish it. |
| Filter connected / Filter offline | Whether the app is talking to FireAI’s network filter right now. |
| 32 472 · 20 blocked | Connections FireAI has seen, and how many it blocked, since it started. |

## Change things from the card

- The switch turns protection on or off. Off keeps every rule; it only stops blocking and asking.
- The first menu picks where you are: Home, Coffee shop, Paranoid or Under attack.
- The second menu picks how FireAI answers new connections: Alert asks you, FireAI Pilot lets the on-device model decide confident cases, the Silent modes decide quietly.
- Kill switch cuts the internet in one click while your local network keeps working.

## Good to know

> **Note:** The score comes only from your own settings and what FireAI saw on this Mac, such as whether telemetry is blocked or unsigned apps are allowed. It is never sent anywhere. See [the Home dashboard](https://hisnlabs.com/fireai/en/docs/home-dashboard) for the fuller picture behind this card.

## Read next

- [The Home dashboard](https://hisnlabs.com/fireai/en/docs/home-dashboard.md)
- [Security modes: Home, Coffee shop, Paranoid, Under attack](https://hisnlabs.com/fireai/en/docs/security-modes.md)
- [The kill switch: cut your Mac off the internet in one click](https://hisnlabs.com/fireai/en/docs/kill-switch.md)
- [FireAI Pilot: FireAI decides the easy connections for you](https://hisnlabs.com/fireai/en/docs/autopilot.md)

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