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## Secure your system -- restrict access to specific ports
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Configuring IP firewalling is *essential for securing your installation*. By default, many services are reachable across the network. This allows BigBlueButton operate in clusters and private data center networks -- but it creates a significant attack surface, if your BigBlueButton server is publicly available on the internet.
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Configuring IP firewalling is *essential for securing your installation*. By default, many services are reachable across the network. This allows BigBlueButton operate in clusters and private data center networks -- but if your BigBlueButton server is publicly available on the internet, you need to run a firewall to reduce access to the minimal required ports.
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If your server is behind a firewall already -- such as running within your company or on an EC2 instance behind a Amazon Security Group -- and the firewall is enforcing the above restrictions, you don't need a second firewall and can skip this section.
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These `ufw` firewall rules will be automatically re-applied on server reboot.
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Besides IP-based firewalling, web application firewalls such as [ModSecurity](https://modsecurity.org/) provide additional security by checking requests to various web-based components.
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Besides IP-based firewalling, you can explore web application firewalls such as [ModSecurity](https://modsecurity.org/) that provide additional security by checking requests to various web-based components.
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## Extract the shared secret
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