late publication protection is a feature that protects page with a published date in the future (late) to be disclosed publicly until the publication date is due.
A visitor should not be signed in to be able to see or to follow a link to the late publication page.
For an anonymous user, this link to a late publication page:
Visual Example:
By default, this feature is enabled but you can disable it by setting the latePublicationProtectionEnable configuration to false.
The configuration latePublicationProtectionMode determines the mode of protection and may be one of the protection mode values.