[Belial]

To anyone who owns a Synology product (or is thinking of buying one), and if you care about the security of your network, your computer and your data, I strongly suggest you read this report:

http://isisblogs.poly.edu/2008/04/04...logy-products/

I hope Hi-Jack also takes these issues into consideration when reviewing Synology products.

ps. I am in no way affiliated with either Synology or the person who wrote the report. I just followed his reports on the Synology forums and thought some of you would be interested.

[Hi-Jack]

5) We are currently working on a release for May, where most of the security concerns raise by dguido should be addressed.
6) All development is subject change without notice.
7) After the security updates in May, the Synology firmware should meet the needs of both camps.

We catched that thread and let it play our for now...
We will be in touch with dguido after the release and if any security holes are
further detected, we will be in touch with Synology about them. I agree however
with some comments made that indeed there are security issues but none of
hte level that it would compromise the whole system if properly defended and
inaccessible towards the Internet...

We not underestimate the issues but they not make part of the review. (Goes over my head). If we feel it's appropriate, we will add some weight into the balans for Synology to fix these beyond any doubt...

Data must not only be safe by using RAID but also defended against abuse
by not making things to easy leaving security wholes...!! Some requests made by some people however are plain ridiculous. If you want a NAS as a fort, you should go in a total different price range but not expect a 200-500$ NAS servers to be as secure as a 5.000$ device.

dguido is right about some issues and Synology accepted to address these.
That others list up to 30 settings to be added for configuring security would more render the servers useles for home use than it would benefit anyone... Some just purchased the wrong device...

My 2 cents...
Haven't read all threads but we know Synology is occupied with the issues...
(and these issues exist on other NAS servers as well)

We are following the progress...

Enjoy

[crashnburn]

Did this get resolved?

[Belial]

chrashnburn, I think it depends on what you mean by "resolved". This page sets out the path for fixing the security issues:

http://www.synology.com/enu/forum/vi...p?f=115&t=7803