diff --git a/plugins/modules/elastic_agentpolicy.py b/plugins/modules/elastic_agentpolicy.py
index fe0b298..8035474 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/elastic_agentpolicy.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/elastic_agentpolicy.py
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@
   monitoring: 
     description: Monitoring Attributes
     type: list
+  protected:
+    description: whether or not to enable agent tamper protection
+    type: bool
+    default: False
 '''
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import _ANSIBLE_ARGS, AnsibleModule