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by UpSpin » Sat Sep 16, 2017 12:43 am
Options to access the NAS from away:
Most secure way:
Your router is VPN capable, so build a VPN connection and work from anywhere as if you where at home. It's the most secure connection, because the NAS is not exposed to the outside. But it's the most limited, because you have to initiate a VPN connection and your router must support this.
Less secure:
The QNAP way.
The least secure way is to just use myQNAPCloud, open the ports on your router and thus expose the NAS to the outside, allowing hackers and whatever direct access to your NAS. As long as you run the latest and greatest firmware, strong passwords, two factor authentifications, etc. it's ok. But keep in mind, that anyone can acess your NAS now and try to hack it. myQNAPCloud works like a DDNS, meaning, your NAS communicates with a QNAP server, tells him the IP and once you contact the QNAP server with your myQNAPCloud adress you get forwarded to your NAS. You also get a nice web interface to mimic a file sharing service which allows you to easily share files with others.
To make it more secure QNAP offers CloudLink. That way you don't have to expose your NAS to the outside and won't interact directly with the NAS. Instead, the NAS communicates, through a secure connection, with a QNAP server, and you have access to your NAS through this server only. That way a hacker has to hack the QNAP server, which are way more secured and have much more powerful firewall than your cheap home router, to get access to your NAS.
Least secure:
As above, open the ports on your router, expose the NAS to the outside and use a third party DDNS. You get direct access to your NAS and can use all possible features your NAS offers without using myQNAPCloud (like web server hosting, third party cloud services, ...)
