One Essential Resolution for Protecting Your Data

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Data Privacy Day is an important reminder every year that protecting personal and business information is no longer optional. The digital world is full of dangers, such as ransomware, phishing, cloud misconfigurations, and security holes that are made public by more and more devices that are connected to the internet. One thing that hasn’t changed as cyberattacks get more advanced is that you should never trust promises of privacy alone. Trust encryption.

More and more cyber threats in a connected world

Cybersecurity risks have changed a lot since the first Data Privacy Day in 2007. New threats related to IoT devices, remote work, and cloud services have joined old ones like phishing. Ransomware attacks have gotten worse, going from just encrypting data to threatening to leak it publicly if ransoms are not paid.

With more people working from home and using the cloud around the world by 2020, the attack surface grew a lot. The FBI warned early in the pandemic that hackers would use virtual environments and remote-access systems to steal information and start extortion campaigns. Reports from several cybersecurity companies later confirmed huge financial losses, with cybercrime costing almost a trillion dollars around the world.

The Cloud Makes Things Easier, But It Also Makes Things More Complicated

For scalability, collaboration, and accessibility, cloud services are now necessary. Many IT leaders think that a larger and larger part of their infrastructure will be in public cloud environments. But the ease of using the cloud often comes with risks that aren’t obvious, such as:

Cloud databases that weren’t set up right were made public
Providers changing their rules about privacy and sharing data without warning
Sensitive information being kept in many places that aren’t well tracked

Past events with big companies show how quickly bad management of the cloud can make a lot of private information public. These examples show an important truth: you can never really control your data if it isn’t encrypted and visible.

The Difficulty of Keeping Your Privacy

It’s harder than ever to keep your privacy in today’s cloud-based world. Businesses often have trouble with:

Knowing where each dataset is kept
Keeping track of who can use certain resources
Finding your way through complicated, unclear cloud backup and syncing systems
Making sure that data stays safe when it is shared, exported, or moved

You may not be able to control all of the data in your cloud apps, but you can fully control how your files are stored, encrypted, backed up, and shared.

This is where Synology’s encryption ecosystem and the expert help from Epis Technology come in handy.

Encryption: Your Best Way to Protect Yourself

Encryption that is done correctly makes sure that only people with the right decryption key can see private data. Encrypted data is unreadable by anyone who doesn’t have permission to see it, no matter where it is stored, whether it’s on a workstation, a Synology NAS, or in the cloud.

DiskStation Manager (DSM) from Synology is a powerful tool for managing encryption. Epis Technology helps businesses create and carry out consistent, policy-driven protection plans for all of their devices, offices, and cloud services.

Synology NAS: Encrypting Data at the Source

Every file on a Synology NAS is stored in a shared folder, and you can encrypt each folder when you make it. Folders that are encrypted:

Require a separate encryption key from login information
Even if the drives are taken out and plugged into another device, they can’t be accessed
Only people with permission can mount it

Epis Technology often sets up encrypted storage environments for businesses to make sure they meet compliance standards and provides ongoing support for secure key management.

Keeping encrypted data safe while syncing

You can move encrypted folders to another Synology NAS, either locally or remotely, without ever decrypting the data. You can do this with Shared Folder Sync or Snapshot Replication. This end-to-end encrypted workflow makes sure:

Employees can’t accidentally make security less strong during transfers
Without the encryption key, the secondary destination can’t read files
Backups and synchronizations are still hard to change

Epis Technology helps companies set up multi-site encrypted replication to make hybrid environments that can handle a lot of stress.

Encrypted NAS Backup Targets Keep PCs and Servers Safe

With Active Backup for Business, you can back up all of your Windows or Linux systems to encrypted storage folders on a Synology NAS. The whole backup cycle, from the endpoint to the archive, is safe when encrypted transfer is used.

Epis Technology helps businesses by creating full-system backup plans that let every employee workstation and server have automated, encrypted protections.

Hyper Backup makes it possible to back up data remotely in a secure way

Any 3-2-1 disaster recovery plan needs to have backups that are stored off-site and remotely. Hyper Backup lets you make fully encrypted backups to:

Other NAS devices from Synology
USB sticks
Servers that run Linux

Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Backblaze, and Synology C2 are all cloud services.

No matter where they go, files stay encrypted until they leave the NAS.

Synology C2 Cloud: Client-Side Encryption

Synology C2 Storage is a safe place in the cloud that is made just for NAS backups. Synology offers strong server-side encryption, but client-side encryption makes sure that:

You are the only one who can get to your data with your private key
Your backups can’t be decrypted by anyone at Synology
Cloud breaches can’t show information that can be read

Epis Technology helps businesses set up secure encryption policies and disaster recovery workflows so they can use C2 Storage the right way.

Encrypting Data That Is Synced to Public Cloud Services

With Cloud Sync, you can sync your NAS with other platforms in a secure way.

Drive from Google
Dropbox
Backblaze
Microsoft OneDrive

AES-256 encryption makes sure that only people who are allowed to can decrypt files, no matter where they are.

For companies with hybrid or distributed teams, Epis Technology often sets up these encrypted syncing pipelines.

How Epis Technology Makes Your Encryption Plan Stronger

Epis Technology offers professional installation, advice, and ongoing support for all Synology-based encryption workflows. They offer the following services:

Making safe data architectures for systems in the cloud and on-site
Using encrypted storage, replication, and failover across multiple sites
Setting up client-side encryption for Synology C2 and other cloud services
Making rules for the whole organization about how to manage keys and control access

To stay in compliance, keep an eye on the health of the system, backups, and security alerts.

Epis Technology gives businesses not only the right tools but also the help they need to use those tools correctly and consistently.

Make Encryption Your Goal

Data Privacy Day reminds us to be responsible for what we leave behind online. Encryption is one of the best ways to protect both personal and business information.

You can be sure that your data is safe no matter where it is, where it goes, or how the digital world changes when you combine Synology’s powerful encryption ecosystem with Epis Technology’s knowledge.