ActiveProtect Manager 1.2 overview

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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, and ransomware defense features such as air-gapping, backup immutability, role-based access controls, and more.

Now, ActiveProtect Manager has been optimized so that businesses can gain visibility into copies of your backups to meet the 3-2-1-1-0 backup strategy, safeguard all their latest software, and manage their entire backup infrastructure with an appliance of their choice to meet deployment requirements.

Read on to find out more.

ActiveProtect Manager 1.2 features overview

ActiveProtect management servers come in all sizes:

No matter the scale of your business, everyone deserves a capable, integrated backup solution to safeguard data against the threat of ransomware. With APM 1.2, our ActiveProtect DP Series Towers can now be used as a management server to consolidate and manage your entire fleet of backup servers.

In addition, the DP7400 and DP7200 have now been updated so that users can safeguard up to 300,000 workloads. Manage and monitor all your backups via a single console with any ActiveProtect appliance of your choice.

Leave no gaps in your data protection:

Don’t leave any of your backups or backup copies behind. With APM 1.2, data protection measures have been optimized so that companies can meet SLAs by safeguarding all backups and backup copy versions, no matter what. Stay on top of tasks by viewing the backup copy status directly on the dashboard.

Safeguard the latest version of your software:

Protect the latest versions of your Macs, Linux, Microsoft Hyper-V, and more, to ensure your data is stored safely without missing a beat. View the release note to find out more.

Are you doing enough to safeguard your data? Take a look at Synology’s Data Protection Security Checklist and view our Cyber Recovery Guide today.

Click here to learn more about Synology ActiveProtect.

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