{"id":299,"date":"2019-12-09T18:03:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T10:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/layerstack.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2019-12-09T18:03:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T10:03:57","slug":"the-new-firewall-feature-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.layerstack.com\/blog\/the-new-firewall-feature-has-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Firewall Feature Has Arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the\nmost brought up feature requests was Firewalls. The LayerStack Firewalls is a\nfree add-on security solution, you can benefit from safeguarding your business while\nusing your predetermined set of rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tools like iptables are familiar to developers, but it can be complicated to use and may not work in all situations. LayerStack Firewall adds flexibility and simplifies firewall management, you can centrally manage rules and control common IP protocols to all of your cloud servers at ease. Beyond the LayerPanel v2.0, you can also assign firewall rule sets by our API.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Secure by Default<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LayerStack Firewalls\ndropped all packets by default. This means that any traffic not matched by an\nexplicit rule will not be allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Easy to\nConfigure<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can\nmodify the rule sets in a Firewall Template to allow incoming or outgoing\ntraffic access to the cloud servers from different ports within ICMP, TCP, and\nUDP protocols, also by targeting source or destination IP address. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.layerstack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LayerStack-Firewall-Create-1024x443.png\" alt=\"LayerStack Firewall Create\" class=\"wp-image-300\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Simple to Scale<br><\/strong>You can create firewall templates for pre-defined rule sets, which makes it easier to manage your cloud servers in bulk and apply firewall rules as soon as you create a new cloud server. Each cloud server can also assign multiple firewall templates at your security preference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.layerstack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LayerStack-Firewall-Assign-1024x445.png\" alt=\"LayerStack Firewall Assign\" class=\"wp-image-301\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more\nabout LayerStack Firewalls on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.layerstack.com\/resources\/docs\/Firewall\">Product Docs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are there\nany features you are looking for? Send us feedback on our <a href=\"https:\/\/community.layerstack.com\/\">Community<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most brought up feature requests was Firewalls. The LayerStack Firewalls is a free add-on security solution, you can benefit from safeguarding your<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates","tag-product-and-feature-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.layerstack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.layerstack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.layerstack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.layerstack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.layerstack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.layerstack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.layerstack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.layerstack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.layerstack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}