How to Effectively Protect Synology NAS from Ransomware Attack?

Information technology has helped improve the productivity of companies but also brings new crime, cyberattack. Companies’ business data is of high value so there is ransomware invented to blackmail companies to pay the ransom.

Every company should take it seriously. Synology NAS is a kind of data storage widely used in companies and this post will focus on how to protect Synolgoy NAS data and other data from ransomware attacks.

Does Synology NAS provide built-in solution for ransomware protection?

As the enterprise data storage, there are some measures provided by Synology to protect data stored on the NAS from ransomware.

Access control is the first step to prevent ransomware from getting into your NAS so there is built-in antivirus software, Antivirus Essential, and firewall to defend the data.

To prevent data accessed by unauthorized visitors, Synology Secure Signin will verify the identity of the visitor. With Secure Signin, there are two methods to sign in to the NAS, approve sign-in and hardware security key.

You can set up a 2-factor authentication to secure the login process, one-time verification code (OTP) + approve sign-in/hardware security key.

Synology mainly provides premium data storage to help companies conveniently store and manage data but it isn’t good at protecting data. The built-in solution is not enough to protect data on the NAS from ransomware attacks, so you need an additional solution.

How to effectively protect NAS data from ransomware attack?

Ransomware often encrypts business data to suspend companies’ production systems. The simplest way to recover production systems from ransomware attack is restoring data from backup. It looks simple but the point is that what if the backup data is infected, too? You need storage protection solution.

Vinchin Backup & Recovery is an enterprise data backup solution for NAS, virtual machine, physical server, and database. Except for simple procedures to backup and restore data, it also provides an effective storage protection solution to protect backup data against ransomware attacks.

Vinchin Storage Protection will protect backup data by preventing data from being tampered or deleted by unauthorized applications. Only Vinchin’s applications can modify the backup data to ensure data integrity and validity. It doesn’t require complicated configuration, but just enable it in the control panel.

Vinchin Backup & Recovery has helped a lot of users to recover IT environment from data backup. The process will be easy and fast. After you are sure the ransomware is cleaned up, you can rebuild to IT environment and import backup data to recover production system. It helps users save a lot of ransom.

Vinchin Backup & Recovery has been selected by thousands of companies and you can also start a 60-day full-featured free trial. Also, you can contact us to submit your need and then we will give you a proper solution according to your actual IT environment.

How to prevent ransomware attacks?

Data backup is just one of the methods of preventing ransomware attack and you can defend your IT environment against ransomware attacks in many ways.

Remain vigilant to the files from unknown sources

Ransomware can encrypt files in business systems after it is downloaded to the local machine and this is often caused by clicking an unknown link or downloading an unknown attachment in the email.

Common employees don’t have such consciousness of defending system from ransomware so IT department should send notices or arrange courses on how to prevent being injected by ransomware to reduce the chance of getting infected.

Procure security software

Data backup can help recover system from ransomware attacks which is the last line of defending against ransomware backup. Before that, you can also defend it in other ways.

Firewall and security software can detect the files from the unknown sources and then isolate or delete them to prevent the system. The built-in firewall and security software might be powerful enough on PC but for enterprises’ IT environment, companies should procure enterprise licenses which could be pretty expensive.

Update system and applications

Ransomware can invade system with holes. When the holes are detected by vendors, they will often fix it in the latest version so keeping system up-to-date is good for defending system from being infected by ransomware.

Sum Up

Ransomware is rampant on the Internet and companies should be wary of it because business data is important. Synology NAS is a popular data storage in companies and it provides the internal ransomware protection solutions like security signin to protect data stored on it.

Data backup is the last line of defending ransomware and Vinchin Backup & Recovery can effectively protect backup data from being infected by ransomware to help quickly recover production environment later. Don’t miss the free trial.