Friday, August 27th 2021
TerraMaster NAS Feature in-built Anti-Ransomware
TerraMaster, a professional brand that specializes in providing innovative storage products for home, businesses and enterprises, presents its comprehensive suite of cybersecurity features to provide excellent protection against all variants of ransomware, viruses, and other forms of cyberattack. There has been an increase in new variants of ransomware that specifically target NAS devices. TerraMaster continuously bolsters the suite of cybersecurity features on its NAS devices to provide effective protection even to the newest ransomware variants. TerraMaster has taken the necessary steps for help users avoid common pitfalls that are targeted by attackers. TerraMaster also provides the necessary security features to protect against cybersecurity attacks.
TerraMaster NAS users can get alert notifications for system events, power failures, and others. This helps managers in real-time monitoring even at home, ensuring that you are always up to date with the status of your TNAS. TerraMaster NAS device has disabled the default administrator account. This ensures users will create a new administrator account and set their own password at first use.
TerraMaster NAS devices come with an Automatic IP Blocking feature wherein it automatically blocks users from a particular IP address with too many login attempts. To learn more about Automatic IP Blocking and how to enable its function, please visit TerraMaster. Users can get access to the Clam AntiVirus via the TOS app. ClamAV is an open-source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware and other malicious threats.
Snapshot
Snapshot can be installed on TerraMaster NAS devices with Btrfs file system support. Snapshot is a common cybersecurity feature that uses a copy function to create image copies of the storage server. Users can enable Snapshot to take an image snapshot as frequently as every 5 minutes. Nevertheless, users can tweak how Snapshot work depending on available storage space.
Backup
Backup works differently compared to Snapshot. Backup is a more comprehensive protective feature wherein a complete copy of your data is safely stored elsewhere. TerraMaster NAS devices feature the DupleBackup which provides data backup options to several supported storage options including another TNAS, Rsync server, Webdav server, various mainstream cloud drivers, and NAS local folders.
TerraMaster NAS devices also support AOMEI Backup. The AOMEI Backup in the TerraMaster NAS application center allows you to easily back up the entire machine, backing up systems, files, folders, to the TerraMaster NAS. In cases of abnormality or cyberattack, users can easily restore the system and data to a normal state and retrieve valuable information.
TerraMaster NAS devices come with a full suite of protection to help users fight against malware, viruses, ransomware, and other forms of cybersecurity attacks. Users can activate all these features simultaneously for the best protection.
TerraMaster NAS users can get alert notifications for system events, power failures, and others. This helps managers in real-time monitoring even at home, ensuring that you are always up to date with the status of your TNAS. TerraMaster NAS device has disabled the default administrator account. This ensures users will create a new administrator account and set their own password at first use.
Snapshot
Snapshot can be installed on TerraMaster NAS devices with Btrfs file system support. Snapshot is a common cybersecurity feature that uses a copy function to create image copies of the storage server. Users can enable Snapshot to take an image snapshot as frequently as every 5 minutes. Nevertheless, users can tweak how Snapshot work depending on available storage space.
Backup
Backup works differently compared to Snapshot. Backup is a more comprehensive protective feature wherein a complete copy of your data is safely stored elsewhere. TerraMaster NAS devices feature the DupleBackup which provides data backup options to several supported storage options including another TNAS, Rsync server, Webdav server, various mainstream cloud drivers, and NAS local folders.
TerraMaster NAS devices also support AOMEI Backup. The AOMEI Backup in the TerraMaster NAS application center allows you to easily back up the entire machine, backing up systems, files, folders, to the TerraMaster NAS. In cases of abnormality or cyberattack, users can easily restore the system and data to a normal state and retrieve valuable information.
TerraMaster NAS devices come with a full suite of protection to help users fight against malware, viruses, ransomware, and other forms of cybersecurity attacks. Users can activate all these features simultaneously for the best protection.
19 Comments on TerraMaster NAS Feature in-built Anti-Ransomware
Snapshots are not immune since they reside locally on the machine.
ClamAV, though it works, there is nothing super special about it. My company has it deployed on their BSD/Linux systems, and acts like any other antivirus.
Backups residing externally from the NAS is the only point here that would help against ransonware, but as long as your backups are up-to-date to avoid data loss.
I must be missing something here.
Since I am not well versed in ransomware, was wondering if there was anything else that could help mitigate it other than keeping your apps/OS updated, backups and antivirus? Maybe just keep the NAS local access only, but for some users, remote access is essential.
As I said, this is just going to make them a target, since I'm pretty sure, just as you're saying, that there's nothing in this press release about what exactly would stop a ransomware from encrypting the data. Maybe their CPU is so slow and lacks AES encryption, so it would take too long? :roll:
I can't think of much that would prevent a ransomware attack, except keeping everything up to date and don't click on dodgy links...
One more question, does all ransomware require user interaction in order for it to deploy (e.g. links, executing exploited scripts, etc.)?
I run Open Media Vault on mine, which is built on top of Debian.
Maybe not the most popular NAS OS, but it's been rock solid and the next version should improve the user experience quite a bit with an improved UI.
All you can to, is to keep your software up to date.
I'm just grateful I have a router that's supported by Voxel, which seems to push out security patches nearly every month. I did in fact just update to the latest one.
Best you can do is add multiple layers of security and opt for dynamic root of trust. This way if someone breaks into your router for example, they would still need to work separately on the NAS.
Strong crypto, good digital habits, redundancy, constant hardening, pentesting and auditing. Then, maybe you have a chance. :)
All hosts in my LANs are firewalled and distrusted by default, for example. Not unbreakable but it will buy me some time for some of the whistleblowers to trigger an alarm that something fishy is going on.
There are many rules, best practices and procedures to follow for some peace of mind. Granted not many people bother at all.