Coal miners used to carry a canary in a cage when digging as the bird would sing, unless dangerous gasses collected in the mine which would weaken the bird and alert the miners of the imminent danger. The same concept has existed in computer security for a long time as honeypots naturally attract hackers and allow a network security engineer to use them to alert of the issue. A Synology NAS full of identification or financial documents is a target for hackers that should be fully secured on your intranet and always isolated from the public internet. However, what if your internal network is unknowingly compromised (malware, IoT device, etc.) and hackers start to try to launch attacks against your secure NAS? Reviewing the log files for all possible service attacks may be quite challenging and, by the time you notice the issue, may be too late to take action. A canary honeypot can help immediately alert you that a serious problem may exist within your security perimeter.
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