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What are the Cisco ASA 5505 Firewall preconfigured access rules?

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Last Updated: May 1, 2015 9:30 AM

Your Cisco ASA 5505 hardware firewall comes set up with pre-configured access rules. By default, all outbound traffic is allowed.

Also by default, all inbound traffic is denied, except for the following open ports:

  • 20 (FTP)
  • 21 (FTP)
  • 22 (SSH)
  • 42 (DNS Extra: TCP and UDP)
  • 53 (DNS)
  • 80 (HTTP)
  • 110 (POP3)
  • 443 (HTTPS)
  • 465 (SMTPS)
  • 587 (SMTP/TLS)
  • 993 (IMAPS)
  • 995 (POP3S)
  • 2086 (cPanel)
  • 2087 (cPanel)
  • 2082 (cPanel)
  • 2083 (cPanel)
  • 2096 (cPanel)
  • 2095 (cPanel)
  • 3389 (Remote Desktop)
  • 8443 (Plesk)
  • 9999 (Simple Control Panel)

To modify Cisco ASA 5505 hardware firewall access rules, see Configure Cisco ASA 5505 Firewall Access Rules.