We are elevating our security offerings with the release of Egress Firewall Rules. This powerful new feature gives you direct control over your website’s outbound network traffic, allowing you to define exactly which external services your site is permitted to contact.
Why It Matters
A truly robust security strategy includes managing your site’s outbound connections. By creating a curated list of approved communications, you gain an exceptional level of control and peace of mind. Here’s how:
- Ensure Data Integrity: Protect your valuable data by creating an “allow-list” of approved destinations. This ensures that information only flows to the services you explicitly trust, affirming your site’s security.
- Proactive Security Configuration: Define a clear security perimeter for your website. By specifying which external services are essential for your site’s operation, you create a clean, predictable, and highly secure environment.
- Gain Full Transparency and Control: Understand and manage every external connection your site makes. This gives you full authority over how your plugins and themes interact with other services, aligning your site’s behavior perfectly with your business policies.
How to Use It
This powerful feature gives you precise control over your site’s connections. We recommend confirming your site’s essential services (like payment gateways or plugin update servers) to ensure they operate smoothly as you build your rules.
You can find the new controls in your site’s dashboard:
- Log in to your account and navigate to the site you want to configure.
- Click Security in the side navigation menu.
- In the Egress Firewall Rules panel, you can begin building your list of approved connections.
- Add a rule by specifying the destination host (IP address or domain), port, and protocol (TCP/UDP) you wish to allow.
- Save your rules to apply them instantly. We recommend testing your site’s key functions after adding new rules to ensure everything works as expected.
This new level of control is part of our ongoing commitment to providing you with the most secure and robust platform possible for your websites.