…without snark or jumping down my throat. I genuinely want to know why it’s so unsafe.
I’m running a Synology DS920+, with my DSM login exposed through a Cloudflare tunnel. I have 2FA enabled, Synology firewall enabled with these rules in place. I also have this IP blocklist enabled.
After all of this, how would someone be able to break in via the DSM login?
because attackers can now access it. this gives them unlimited amount of times to try and break in. this isn’t as safe as not exposing it to attackers.
With cloudflare authen it is probably gonna be fine with ip block filter etc. it would probably filter 99.999% of the malicious attack already.
But still why do you need to expose it? I only have my jellyfin expose cos idc much about jf data and network cos it on a separate vlan network and stuff. All my management and nas are only accessible through vpn cos i wouldnt need access outside that often only when something happends.
Security for systems are designed for their target use case. The NAS login page was designed to be easily usable and assumed to only live within a private network. By opening to the internet you are opening it up to be targeted in a way the designers may not have accounted for.