Mikrotik Disable Winbox Access

Mikrotik has one proprietory tool called "Winbox" to manage its configurations. Winbox provides us a user-friendly interface to easily manage the router configurations. Winbox uses one TCP port to access the Mikrotik router. The Winbox default port number is 8291. 

If we are concern about our router security, then we have to change this default Winbox port number or permanently disable the "Winbox" service.. Using this port, an attacker can try to break our router credential by conducting a brute-force attack. That's why it is the best practice to change the Winbox default port number or disable the service for security reasons.

In this tutorial, we are going to learn, how to disable the "Winbox" service.

From the below path we can disable the Winbox service.

IP -> Services

Below is discussing the whole process graphically.

Just login to your router using Winbox and click on "IP" and then click on "Services".

Here you will find an entry for the "Winbox" service. Just select this service and click on the disable button. 

From now on, the "Winbox" access will be disabled for this Mikrotik router.

That's all.