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But this doesn't imply safety against fire, water, theft and other risks alike. What is physically air gapped and cannot be made online automatically should be safe of ransomware attacks. That's the reason why best practices for backup concepts include air gapped copies. But ransomware may gain and run with such privileges and hence try to reconfigure resp. And file system options and privileged account management options may limit the damage if configured appropriately. Some kinds of firewalls allow configurations to limit such risks, as remarked above. Yes, typically ransomware may reuse existing network connections as well as on demand connections for traversing / infection. It doesn't care if a connection is local or not.įirstOrder1 wrote:or can it traverse over whatever Synology's hyper backup connectivity is? Typically, ransomware will NOT limit itself to locally connected drives and devices. You may configure further levels of defense by means of file systems, connection establishment (and sharing) options and firewalls.įirstOrder1 wrote:does Ransomware only look for locally connected drives and devices? But such a means alone will not be sufficient. With a pull strategy, you'll have the advantage that the local NAS doesn't need to know the connection and may hence further reduce vulnerability risks of ransomware or malware infection crossing that network boundary. And even for on demand connections, your backup design can implement a pull or a push strategy.

If the connection is permanent, then the risk of infection is higher compared to an on demand connection. It can use such a connection or connection establishment option. Ransomware doesn't need to use Hyper Backup.

availability of a network connection, either permanent or on demand. Hyper backup relies on the existence resp. So regardless of if prior backups were infected or not, can the remote synology be infected through the hyper backup setup?Īs I replied already above, a clear yes.

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