Click Keep on any row, or tick several and use the bulk action. A protected account is never notified, suspended or removed, and every future scan skips it. Use it for staging sites, accounts being set up, or customers part-way through a migration.
Every protection needs a reason: tap one of the common answers (Mid-migration, Staging site, Customer request, Billing hold) or type your own. The reason is shown on the Protected Accounts page and written to the Activity Log, so anyone can see later why an account was kept.
On Protected Accounts you can protect an account that isn't listed yet by typing its username, and Remove protection to return one to the lifecycle.
Removing protection does not restart the clock: the account resumes from its original detection date and phase, so if its dates have passed it can be suspended or removed at the next run. Protection is only a flag inside the plugin and doesn't change the account.
