Author: Akshay Sunil

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UFW is the acronym for the Uncomplicated Firewall application used to administer your firewall rules on Ubuntu, Debian, and Arch Linux. As you proactively manage your firewall to avoid cyberattacks, blocking internet protocol (IP) addresses or whitelisting only those IPs allowed are two different firewall management approaches that can assist you. Regardless of the approach, all system administrators want to manage the incoming network traffic and firewall security to stop bad actors with harmful intentions.