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Is the firewall on the ReadyNAS far below acceptable level?
Hi All, I'm installing a ReadyNAS Pro 6, that will have "some" connections to the outside world. Given that this essentially is a Linux box, and SSH-access is possible, i figured it had some decent...
Jaap_van_Ekris wrote: ... This means that even when you have a corporate firewall, putting a system like this in a DMZ will also mean that it will get exposed to serious threats (from other potentially compromised systems)...
I believe that ReadyNAS Photos, ReadyNAS remote, ReadyNAS replicate, and Egnyte Cloud Services do not require putting the NAS in the DMZ, or even port forwarding.
FTP also does not not require the DMZ either though it does require port forwarding if you use it outside of your corporate network. I would agree that it has a higher security risk since passwords are sent in the clear. A firewall doesn't really help that.
I think sphardy makes a good point. Netgear makes no claims that the Pro 6 has an internal firewall, and you presumed it had one. It would be a nice feature of course. But you can't really blame Netgear, as it appears that you simply didn't do your research.
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