If we want to have a series of important data and files stored safely and accessible through the internet, by far a NAS is an ideal solution. Even for home users, it is an accessible solution if we want to have digital copies of our personal bills and guarantees, valuable photos and videos, or our multimedia files to share with the family, plus some personal partitions for each member of the house. Security is intrinsic to NAS, much safer than having a hard drive connected to our router, since NAS manufacturers such as QNAP present security solutions with their QTS 5.0.
Your files on a NAS must be safe
And it is that the security and integrity of our data and files is important. Think about what type of files you are going to save on a NAS, and most likely they are files or with sensitive information, or of high importance. Here we recommend saving digital copies of all documentation that can be presented to public administrations such as PDFs of IDs or family books to have them ready to print, along with guarantees, invoices and proof of payment to public administrations. Those photos of our vacations that we want to show the family. A repository of our personal projects that we work on weekends ...
These are data that, although not expressly and directly useful to crackers, but they can be blocked by ransomware. This is why all security is necessary with our data and files online, and that is why QNAP has introduced the QTS 5.0 security protocol for its NAS for both home and business users.
What's new in QTS 5.0 for QNAP NAS
QNAp's QTS 5.0 includes a number of speed and security enhancements for QWNAP products that are still officially supported. These improvements will help make our data and files much more secure from any cyberattack and we can continue to use our NAS with confidence.
First of all, there is the new Linux Kernel 5.10, thus increasing the security of said kernel, VPN Fireguard is supported for users who must use VPNs for the development of their work or improve their online privacy; an enhanced NVMe SSD cache boost, and AMD enhancements.
QVPN 3.0 QTS 5.0 integrates the popular WireGuard VPN, which is known to be lightweight and reliable. It has a simple interface to configure a secure connection, designed for home users or people who telecommute to safely access your company's servers.
If the cache acceleration is enabled, SSD storage can be used more efficiently while freeing up memory resources. It is capable of maintaining its performance even receiving requests from multiple simultaneous. The transfer of large files over the SMB / NFS protocol has been sped up.
EdgeTPU implemented in QNAP's QTS 5.0 makes image content and facial recognition recognizable. This is ideal for creative workers working with a large number of photos taken in series and is ideal for searching our archives for specific people or objects. Also, al is inside the QNAP NAS and not in Google Photos. The conditions of use of the latter mean that our personal photos, all of them, will be used to improve facial and object recognition algorithms, with which they will be consulted by algorithms and people, which means a loss of privacy .
El exFAT support Free for NAS-based, it supports files up to 16EB and is optimized for flash storages such as SD cards and USB devices. This accelerates the transfer speed of large format files such as 4K videos now that 4K televisions and monitors are expected to settle in domestic environments.
The new support for the application Teamviewer makes it possible to remotely control and manage connected systems from anywhere in the world. The additional security that QNAP offers with its VPN allows end-to-end encryption and a hidden IP so that no one can check the data we send and receive if we use a public network.
With the DA Drive Analyzer from QNAP QTS 5.0, cloud-based AI is leveraged to predict the expected life of drives. This is ideal in the long term, which allows us to know when one of our units may have problems and we must replace it before it has critical errors and with it our data can be lost.
Finally, there is QuFTP for secure file transfer via FTP protocol. QNAP NAS can be used as an FTP server and offer an encrypted SSL / TLS connection, with QoS bandwidth control and a configuration of FTP transfer limitations or speed limitations for users and groups. QuFTP supports FTP clients such as Filezilla, so users accustomed to mass transferring data using these clients can do so without having to install any dedicated software.
With all this, QNAP offers us greater security and integrity of the data and files we keep. Even home users can get a lot of value out of a small NAS. For their part, small and medium-sized companies will be able to take advantage of these security, speed and VPN access improvements now that telecommuting is here to stay.
