lmkara.blogg.se - Encrypt folders

If you do not mount encrypted folders on startup, then if someone physically steals your Synology, your data is protected: An unlikely scenario for many, but not out of the realm of possibility.

Unless you are an administrator user, you cannot access encrypted folders without the encryption key: For consumer users who typically have a single administrator user, this is a great benefit.

So what does having encryption at rest buy you? Here are a few things:

Clearly, data at rest is not the only place you need to be concerned with when it comes to protecting your data, but it is an important foundation on which other security features can be built - more on this in a future post. As the name implies, this feature provides encryption at rest. One such feature that Synology provides is encrypted folders. With more and more news coming out about security breaches, you really need as many security features at your disposal as possible. There is a ton of competition in the consumer / SMB storage market, but Synology is easily one of the if not the top providers in the market today. While I have not blogged much about Synology, I have been using Synology products for years now, and I have become quite a fan. I want to talk about Synology encrypted folders and what you need to know in this post.

One great feature is the ability to create encrypted folders. Synology offers a variety of solid storage systems and comes with software that offers a wide variety of features.