Question How to secure my NAS?

goooober

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I put together my own little Xpenology NAS a few weeks ago and it was my first experience with proper home networking, i'd only ever setup a couple of routers before.

Being completely new to using Synology DSM and configuring both the NAS and connected devices i've had to follow a lot of guides as well as just blindly clicking buttons in order to setup DS Cloud Sync, Plex, Sabnzdb, Sonarr, Kodi etc etc.

My concern is that having made changes to permissions and opening ports in my router and allowing devices outside my network to connect to it (my brother's phone and laptop) I may have inadvertently left the NAS and/or the devices connected to it vulnerable. I thought i'd include a few screenshots of various settings i've changed in the process of trying to configure the NAS, installed packages, devices, router etc in case i've done some something obviously wrong.

Control Panel:

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Typical Shared Folder Options:

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File Services:

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Control Panel > User:

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Typical User Settings:

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Control Panel > Group

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Control Panel > Network:

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Control Panel > Info Center

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Control Panel > Web Services

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Router Port Forwarding (this was for Sab and Sonarr i believe)

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Ok so that turned out to be a lot more screenshots than I thought i'd do, hopefully someone might given them a quick glance :)

Any other general advice would be most appreciated.

Thanks
 
On my synology, there is Security advisor, run that to start with, install anti virus package.
 
Antivirus won't stop hacking.

On DSM:
Create an Administrator account and then disable the default "admin" account.
Change default ports.

On your router:
Port triggering isn't the right method.
Port forwarding will specify which host on your LAN you want to send that port to.

If DSM https is on TCP 5001 then forward to YOUR_DSM_IP only.
OR
Don't change default ports on DSM and create a forwarding rule. Example for DSM Web - create a forwarding rule for port, say TCP 5050, and send to YOUR_DSM_IP as port TCP 5001.
So if you try to access your DSM externally (WAN side) youl have to put https://yourwanip:5050
 

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