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### Setting Up Plesk's Firewall

Plesk control panel comes with a firewall, which you can use to protect your server from incoming network connections that could be used to compromise the server. The firewall comes with a set of predefined rules that allow connections to the services required for the proper functioning of a hosting server, such as Web, mail, and FTP. By default, the firewall is switched off.

Read this chapter to learn how to:

- Switch on the firewall
- View the currently allowed inbound connections
- Allow and block inbound connections
- Allow and block ICMP communications
- Restore the default configuration of the firewall
- Switch off the firewall

In this section: Switching the Firewall On Viewing the Currently Allowed Inbound Connections Allowing and Blocking Inbound Connections Allowing and Blocking ICMP Communications Restoring the Default Configuration of the Firewall Closing Down All Connections to the Server Using the Panic Mode Switching the Firewall Off