Netgear dgn3700 readyshare NAS

[BubbleTrouble]

My router comes with this software called readyshare and allows me to plug in a USB drive and then share it out locally on the network using the cmd \\readyshare
Also an option for ftp access and https to access it over the internet. I can do this by using a dynamic dns address. But how secure is this? i understand https is supposed to be secure but on accessing my drive from a remote location i'd have to say it doesn't prompt for login credentials (no option to set password within router config) and i'm pretty sure in order for https to actually work hasn't there got to be a certification authority involved who allows sharing of public key.
Is my implementation not secure?

Any ideas on how i could make it secure?

 

[stevech]

My router comes with this software called readyshare and allows me to plug in a USB drive and then share it out locally on the network using the cmd \\readyshare
Also an option for ftp access and https to access it over the internet. I can do this by using a dynamic dns address. But how secure is this? i understand https is supposed to be secure but on accessing my drive from a remote location i'd have to say it doesn't prompt for login credentials (no option to set password within router config) and i'm pretty sure in order for https to actually work hasn't there got to be a certification authority involved who allows sharing of public key.
Is my implementation not secure?

Any ideas on how i could make it secure?

If your wireless router lacks username, password per user, for remote access to the file system/disk, then I wouldn't use it at all. More likely, it foolishly defaults to no password.

Know too that having a quasi-good router port 80 web server open to the Internet, password or not, is a honey-pot to attract all the bad guys' robot software crackers. Your router may not have robust software to fend off such.

Look at the 2 bay NASes from QNAP and Synology if you want to do this. Get a real certificate (not free) for SSL on the NAS.

Synology (and others?) run their own dynamic DNS service with the reporting done by the NAS.