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Why I Wont Buy A Synology Again

Let me start by saying Synology NAS's may have a place if you are a complete Windows only network. Disk Station makes it easy to configure shares, and when homes is enabled it's easy to backup file history and Windows system images, even storing multimedia, and if the Synology DS is the only media server/streamer on your LAN, you can even use Synology Media Server at a pinch - but it's not suitable for much else.

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MTA-STS and TLS-RPT

MTA-STS and TLS-RPT are security-type mechanisms that go hand-in-hand which we use to make declarations to other Mail Servers (via DNS) that we only want to accept encrypted connections for MTA transactions.

It tells others that they shouldn't try deliver mail to us if a secure TLS connection can't be established to our Mail Servers. For this to be effective, you must first configure DNSSEC.

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Email Anti Spoofing - DKIM

Continuing with the second article in our securing Email to stop spoofing series we take a look at DKIM, or Domain Keys Identified Mail, which is an Email authentication method to detect forgeries, it allows the receiving Mail Server to check if an Email that claims to have come from a specific domain, actually did.

it does this is by the senders Mail Server adding a digital signature to each outbound message, then the receivers Mail Server looking up that domains public key in DNS to verify the signature.

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Beware VoIP Cowboys

Not all VoIP or SIP providers, also known as VSP's or Voice Service Providers, are equal. In recent years there has been a number of new VoIP providers appearing to take advantage of the move from POTS to VoIP in the populous areas serviced by NBN, some of these recent ventures claim they have been selling services for years, but it quickly becomes apparent who are honest, and who are full of it.

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