Synology Disk Station Manager (DSM) - the good, the bad and the ugly (WHY2025)

In this WHY2025 session, Mischa van Geelen from Anovum will walk through his recent dive into Synology’s Disk Station Manager. After months inside the software, he surfaced with a mix of intriguing discoveries and a few findings that raise eyebrows. Without getting lost in technical weeds, the talk sketches DSM’s inner logic, hints at overlooked traces, and shows how a sharper view of the platform can flip a “nothing here” scenario into a solid lead. Expect a pragmatic tour of what’s possible. In this WHY2025 session, Mischa van Geelen from Anovum will walk through his recent dive into Synology’s Disk Station Manager. After months inside the software, he surfaced with a mix of intriguing discoveries and a few findings that raise eyebrows. Without getting lost in technical weeds, the talk sketches DSM’s inner logic, hints at overlooked traces, and shows a sharper view of the platform. Expect a pragmatic tour of what’s recoverable, and where things get murky—plus takeaways to sharpen your own incident-response playbook. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ about this event: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/KRG3AP/