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How Epis Technology Can Help You Keep Your IT Systems Safe This Holiday Season

The holidays should be a time to relax, but for IT teams, they often bring the opposite. Threat actors love it when there are fewer employees, slower response times, employees who are distracted, and remote logins. When the right people are out of the office, phishing emails go up, attempts to steal passwords go up, and it’s harder to keep an eye on infrastructure.

Synology has added a number of new tools to make things easier for administrators and improve daily protection. These tools, along with Epis Technology’s managed Synology services, keep your infrastructure safe, stable, and well-monitored, even when your team is on vacation or traveling.

This article talks about the most recent Synology updates and how Epis Technology turns them into protection for your business that you don’t have to worry about.

Secure SignIn makes logging in and protecting your data stronger

The biggest risks during the holidays are still password theft and stolen credentials. People who work from home or check their email while on vacation are more likely to fall for phishing scams.

Secure Synology SignIn makes authentication easier and stronger by:

  • Log in without a password
  • Biometric authentication, like Windows Hello and macOS Touch ID
  • Support for hardware keys like FIDO2 and U2F
  • Logins through a mobile app that need approval
  • Two-factor authentication (2FA) built in

Epis Technology helps companies roll out Secure SignIn to all users and devices, enforce administrator-level 2FA, and make custom login rules that stop weak passwords and keep people from getting in without permission. Epis Technology also sets up VPN-gated SMB file access and secure remote connections, which makes it less likely that passwords will be used in protocols.

Epis Technology now runs Centralized Monitoring with Active Insight

Synology Active Insight gives businesses a single dashboard that shows:

  • Health of the device
  • Using storage
  • Alerts for security
  • Status of the backup
  • Metrics for performance
  • Login activity that seems strange

But the best part is that Epis Technology will take care of this system for you. Epis Technology keeps an eye on all devices in real time, getting alerts right away and taking action before problems turn into outages. This way, you don’t have to check dashboards or respond to warnings.

Epis Technology sets up:

  • Alert levels
  • Notifications that happen automatically
  • Mapping devices to admins
  • PDF reports every week or month

This means that Epis Technology is always keeping an eye on your systems, even when you’re on vacation. They look for things like performance problems and early signs of ransomware.

No need to lift a finger to monitor hardware and systems

With Synology’s better monitoring tools, you can see a lot more:

  • CPU, RAM, and network loads
  • Health of storage and predictions for drives
  • Warnings about temperature and hardware
  • Service availability

These tools help Epis Technology find problems early and fix them before they cause problems with operations. Failing drives, abnormal spikes, or memory exhaustion are handled immediately, ensuring your systems remain available even during peak holiday absence.

Epis Technology can also assign alerts to individual team members, keeping the right people informed without overwhelming the entire organization.

Stopping Account Breaches & Suspicious Logins

With DSM 7.x and Active Insight, administrators can easily detect:

  • Multiple failed login attempts
  • Geographically distant logins
  • Voided or dormant accounts suddenly being used
  • Logins from risky networks or unusual devices

Epis Technology manages login oversight for you, automatically reviewing anomalies and blocking malicious access attempts. If an employee account is compromised, Epis Technology steps in immediately to disable access, reset credentials, and contain risks.

This outsourced monitoring is crucial during the holidays when IT staff may not be watching dashboards 24/7.

Backup Oversight With Hyper Backup + Epis Technology

Backups are the backbone of ransomware recovery, especially when employees use unsecured devices or public Wi-Fi during travel.

Hyper Backup protects:

  • NAS configurations
  • Shared folders
  • Applications
  • Snapshots
  • Large datasets

Active Insight now displays fleet-wide:

  • Failed or incomplete backups
  • Backup times
  • Transfer sizes
  • Storage usage trends

Epis Technology monitors these in real time and performs corrective actions such as:

  • Restarting failed backup tasks
  • Adjusting backup schedules
  • Verifying cloud retention policies
  • Securing offsite and immutable backup copies

With Epis Technology, your business never risks discovering a failed backup after an attack because we catch failures instantly.

Protection Across Hybrid Work and Remote Environments

As holiday travel increases remote logins, Epis Technology ensures your network follows best-practice security:

  • VPN-only access for sensitive protocols
  • Hardened firewall rules
  • Geo-blocking and IP restrictions
  • Endpoint-to-NAS segmentation
  • Zero-trust access models

This eliminates the risk of compromised home networks or insecure devices impacting your business systems.

Epis Technology: Complete Synology Protection While You’re Away

While Synology’s new tools make administration easier, Epis Technology provides the expert oversight businesses need to stay fully protected. Epis Technology turns these tools into a complete managed security and continuity program.

Epis Technology provides:

  • 24/7 monitoring and email alerts
  • Backup validation and offsite configuration
  • Hardware diagnostics and predictive maintenance
  • Secure authentication rollout
  • Investigation of suspicious logins
  • Ransomware recovery planning
  • Disaster recovery architecture
  • Ongoing optimization and updates

In short you get expert eyes on your infrastructure even while you’re relaxing on the beach.

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