diff --git a/infrastructure/nginx-system/release.yaml b/infrastructure/nginx-system/release.yaml
index f1110c7ce8cbbc5fd23f08085dfe472fcde1b80c..8fbe8f3123a746c3a8d256d7336ef5b4feef2651 100644
--- a/infrastructure/nginx-system/release.yaml
+++ b/infrastructure/nginx-system/release.yaml
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ data:
         controllerValue: "k8s.io/ingress-nginx"
       # Configuring various details for ingress-nginx that make sense by default
       config:
-        enable-modsecurity: "true"
-        enable-owasp-modsecurity-crs: "true"
+        enable-modsecurity: "false"
+        enable-owasp-modsecurity-crs: "false"
         enable-ocsp: "true"
         hsts: "true"
         hsts-max-age: "63072000"