How AI is reshaping cyber attacks and why modern cyber resilience matters
Did you know that there has been a 1200% surge in phishing attacks? The rise of AI has turned into a double-edged sword as it can aid businesses but it can also target them. AI-powered cyber attacks have now evolved. There is a growth of AI-driven phishing attacks, AI-enabled credential abuse, intelligent ransomware, and more. Companies need to be proactive in securing corporate data, rely on a modern backup solution, and follow the 3-2-1-1-0 backup strategy. How AI-powered cyber threats are impacting businesses today AI-powered cyber attacks are now becoming the norm, not the exception. As AI is adaptive and
March 4, 2026
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Why it’s important to back up your virtual machines in the age of AI-powered ransomware
With the rise of AI-powered ransomware, it’s more important than ever before to secure your data against emerging cyber threats as they continue to threaten businesses around the world. Roughly 71% of businesses reported an increase in the frequency of cyberattacks over the past year while 61% reported an increase of cyber attack severity in the same time frame, according to statistics. Some businesses might underestimate the risk of cyber attacks which could lead to under investing when businesses are looking to securing data. Businesses, especially rapidly growing ones, often generate a lot of data. A lot of data is
March 4, 2026
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Expand your data protection beyond enterprise data centers
As cybersecurity threats continue to intensify, backup strategies no longer serve as an “insurance policy” against natural disasters or human errors. Instead, backup policies have become an essential defense strategy that determines whether an organization can continue to operate without issues in the face of a ransomware attack and sudden data loss. Astra Security noted that, on average, a business somewhere in the world falls victim to a ransomware attack every 40 seconds. Interestingly, these attackers are no longer solely focusing on large enterprises. Small to mid-sized businesses, distributed units, retail outlets, and temporary sites are increasingly being hit by
March 2, 2026
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ActiveProtect Manager 1.2 overview
With an increase of AI-powered cyberattacks, Synology understands the importance of providing businesses with a data resilient solution. This is why Synology continues to optimize our flagship data protection series: ActiveProtect appliance. Corporations need to be able to maintain business continuity, enhance their incident response readiness, and meet long-term data retention requirements. With Synology ActiveProtect, organizations can handle data protection with a purpose-built backup appliance. Companies can unify their data protection with an all-in-one appliance. With a built-in operating system called ActiveProtect Manager (APM), businesses can consolidate management, security, and scalability on one single platform. APM comes with backup, recovery,
March 2, 2026
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Expand cyber resilience to the cloud with Synology ActiveProtect and Wasabi Cloud Storage
With an explosion of data and complex data retention and compliance requirements, businesses must be certain that mission-critical corporate data is able to withstand emerging ransomware threats. Businesses must deploy flexible, diverse, and hybrid solutions to ensure the security of their data in the event of a sudden cyberattack. Synology ActiveProtect is a purpose-built backup appliance designed to safeguard, manage, and monitor backups. ActiveProtect’s latest update includes Wasabi Cloud Storage integration for users to store backup copies or tier data directly to the cloud. Wasabi Cloud Storage is a cloud object storage service provider that allows users to store data
February 11, 2026
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The machine that keeps millions of systems reliably up-to-date
Authored by Yi-Lin Zhuo, Senior Manager at Synology leading the Quality Assurance teams responsible for Synology’s product releases. Today, well over ten million Synology systems are actively in-use around the world, each holding an average of tens if not hundreds of terabytes of data. That actually puts the global Synology fleet on par with many public clouds. Behind every one of those systems is someone who depends on it: a business protecting years of financial records, a hospital archiving patient data, a creative studio safeguarding irreplaceable project files. When we release an update, there’s a massive responsibility for us to
February 6, 2026
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Rethinking Tape: Build a resilient data protection and reliable long-term retention strategy
Is tape backup dead? The rise of cyber threats has led to a long list of requirements for creating a business continuity plan. However, tape is not dead; many companies still use it to meet regulatory audits. In our view, tape has not lost its value; it has simply been mispositioned. Its strengths lie in its durability, cost efficiency, and offline storage, which make it ideal for long-term retention. The real challenge for organizations today is how to reposition tapes within a modern data protection architecture. Tapes should complement, rather than compete with, modern backup solutions. Updated role for tapes:
January 29, 2026
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Relying on tape backups in 2026 isn’t enough to build your cyber resilience
As cyber threats intensify and business downtime becomes increasingly costly, enterprises are rethinking how their data protection strategies fit into their cyber resilience planning. Under Safe Harbor (Cyber Recovery) principles, the focus has shifted toward one core question: can critical data still be trusted and restored when everything else fails? Backups are no longer just about storing copies of your data. It’s about ensuring those copies remain intact, verifiable, and recoverable fast enough to sustain operations. Tape once played a critical role thanks to its low cost and offline nature. But as data volumes grow and recovery expectations rise, its
January 29, 2026
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Choosing the right AI model for work
AI assistants have quietly become part of the default workday. They draft replies, summarize long email threads, translate content for global teams, and turn rough notes into something you'd actually send. But "which model is best?" is surprisingly hard to answer in a way that reflects real work. Brand perception, UI differences, and one bad interaction can skew opinions fast. So we ran a small internal experiment. Over four weeks, Synology employees around the world used AI features inside Synology Office and MailPlus, our Synology Office Suite that lets organizations connect their own choice of LLM while keeping content private
January 27, 2026
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