“As cybersecurity threats intensify and IT budgets tighten, the market demands an integrated, secure, and scalable solution that delivers optimal ROI,” said JiaYu Liu, executive vice president of Synology. “ActiveProtect is our answer, and the market’s overwhelming positive reception has reinforced our commitment to continue advancing our solutions.”
Synology's Active Backup and ActiveProtect solutions have protected more than 30 million workloads worldwide. Building on this success, Synology's ActiveProtect earned a 4.9/5 rating and a 99% customer recommendation rate in Gartner Peer Insights in August 2025, and Synology was recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner Market Guide for Enterprise Backup Storage Appliances.
ActiveProtect offers seamless hardware and software integration, reducing the total cost of ownership compared to traditional self-integrated backup solutions. It centralizes protection for up to 150,000 workloads across 2,500 sites, covering virtual machines, servers, databases, endpoints, and SaaS services. With advanced features such as WORM, air-gapped backups, and self-healing integrity checks, ActiveProtect provides comprehensive security against constantly evolving cyber threats.
APM 1.1 further strengthens enterprise cyber resilience
The latest version of APM introduces significant enhancements to help organizations strengthen their data protection strategy. Key highlights include:
• Enhanced cyber resilience: APM 1.1 reinforces data security by introducing a new Allow Access Mode that provides granular network control, permitting incoming traffic only from whitelisted IP addresses during backup operations. Upon completion, or if backups finish early, the system automatically reverts to full isolation mode.
• Streamlined compliance support: The new update enables organizations to perform multi-site and multi-geo backups to maintain data in designated geographic locations, thus meeting local data residency requirements. •
Bulk deployment: IT can now easily deploy agents in batches to back up Proxmox environments.
• New tiering support and remote storage options: ActiveProtect now supports data tiering, seamlessly moving data to your chosen remote storage destination to meet your long-term retention needs. Furthermore, while our initial remote storage support includes on-premises solutions (Synology SA and HD Series) and cloud platforms (C2 Object Storage and Amazon S3), the APM 1.1 update expands compatibility to include Wasabi cloud storage and select XS/XS+ devices.
ActiveProtect devices are available globally through Synology's network of distributors and partners.
