As the surveillance market continues to expand rapidly, businesses are faced with an overwhelming array of options from numerous vendors. Choosing the most suitable surveillance solution for their unique needs and requirements can prove to be a daunting task. Given that surveillance systems are often long-term investments lasting for decades, it's crucial for businesses to consider all aspects carefully. Based on our experience assisting hundreds of thousands of businesses deploy surveillance systems, we have identified six common factors that are often overlooked when selecting a video surveillance solution, but which can cause headaches and require costly additional investments down the

Even as IT threats grow more diverse and sophisticated, administrators and email services are forced to expend significant resources protecting users against classic email spam. For as long as email exists, users (and especially companies) have had to cope with unsolicited messages in the form of junk mail. At best, spam emails can carry aggressive marketing messages about questionable products and services. At worst, they may be tools for phishing or fraud campaigns and other scams. An evolving challenge for admins Nearly 320 billion emails are sent and received every day. Of these, up to 50% may be spam. According

Recent media attention has been drawn to issues surrounding privacy and security among security cameras, with a major vendor exposed to have glaring security flaws as well as not living up to their privacy claims. In this article I will clarify how our surveillance solutions ensure the privacy and security of your data. Your data is 100% owned by you Synology Surveillance Station is a video management system that supports over 8,300 IP cameras from over 140 brands, including all ONVIF-compatible IP cameras. Recording to a Synology NAS or DVA means that you have full ownership over their recording and

Hundreds of thousands of users fall victim to cyberattacks and the situation is only going to get more complex, especially with the seemingly unstoppable rise of smart devices in our homes. With this in mind, we have put significant care into equipping Synology Router Manager (SRM) — the operating system that powers every Synology Router — with advanced network functionality that makes it simple to secure any type of network. In this article, we will explain how to protect your home network and the importance of network segmentation. The unseen risks Smart devices bring unprecedented convenience to households but may

Building an efficient data management infrastructure is crucial for businesses of any size. As organizations continue to increase the amount of data they acquire, consume, and share across departments and with the outside world, demand for flexible and reliable storage solutions is stronger than ever. The coming year will see a series of updates to our DiskStation Manager (DSM) operating system and Synology C2 cloud infrastructure that will deliver better scalability, dependability, and mobility to new and existing deployments. These will bring teams the agility to manage data at scale while maintaining the security and control they need to streamline

Safe and intelligent storage systems are key to keeping a business running. This is no different for backup systems used to protect IT infrastructure. Synology storage solutions include our Active Backup suite, a powerful family of applications introduced in 2018 to safeguard endpoints, servers, VMs, and even Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace accounts. At the same time, many businesses run third-party backup software to store backups on their Synology system. In fact, Synology's range of converged NAS/SAN storage systems has been deployed at tens of thousands of companies worldwide, including nearly half of Fortune 500 companies, to store business-critical data and

Simply listing the new features in Surveillance Station 9.0 belies the magnitude of improvements to our video surveillance suite. As we release the ninth iteration of one of our signature products, we are proud to say that users large and small will find securing their premises an altogether more pleasant and integrated experience. In Surveillance Station 9.0, everything is simply more within reach. An all-new experience When you first access the new Surveillance Station, what you’ll immediately notice is the sleek dark interface. Adopting many users’ preferred look is one small way we are making monitoring a better experience, but

Work pressure and irregular staffing make holiday seasons the perfect occasion for threat actors. Besides direct attacks on your infrastructure, phishing and other scams targeting employees also take a flight in the weeks before Christmas. Routine maintenance becomes difficult with fewer hands to do the job. Add working from home to the mix, and it looks like you (sysadmin, reboot consultant, designated IT person) will be holding the fort this holiday. Do you have other plans for your holidays? Luckily, so do we. That’s why we’ve worked on some tools to make large deployments easier to manage and easier to

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link One thing many people overlook in a storage system is how the actual drives that go into the system play a vital role in determining the overall dependability of the solution. At the same time, business environments also demand more. They require performance and predictability. Why we're introducing our HAT5300 enterprise hard drives Synology can control what components we use in our NAS. We also design and thoroughly test our DiskStation Manager (DSM) operating system and software ecosystem on our devices to ensure they work well together. But how do

When it comes to keeping your personal information secure, don’t take anyone at their word — use encryption. Since the first Data Privacy Day back in 2007, online privacy threats have multiplied. On top of more traditional threats like phishing — which has been around since at least the early 1990s — users today face more sophisticated risks, including those linked to the widespread adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, “older” threats remain highly relevant, as evidenced by a recent wave of ransomware attacks that not only lock user data but now have evolved to also threaten to leak