Allen Ransomware Defense and Restoration Services
Ransomware Preparedness Report
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for the major cyber-crime organizations and malicious governments, representing a potentially existential risk to businesses that are successfully attacked. Current variations of ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even selective restoration a long and expensive process. New strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Snatch and Nephilim have made the headlines, replacing WannaCry, Spora, and CryptoWall in notoriety, sophistication, and destructive impact.
Most ransomware breaches are the result of innocent-looking emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or file attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" strains that elude detection by legacy signature-based antivirus filters. While user training and up-front identification are important to protect against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you expect that some malware will eventually succeed and that you deploy a solid backup solution that permits you to restore files and services rapidly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is a low-cost service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent cybersecurity consultant experienced in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this assessment Progent will work with your Allen network management staff to gather pertinent data about your cybersecurity posture and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to apply leading practices for implementing and administering your cybersecurity and backup solution to block or recover from a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on key issues related to crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Cybersecurity
- Correct allocation and use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Proper firewall settings
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol access
- Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and deployment
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Protecting critical servers including AD
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To avoid the carnage, the victim is asked to send a specified amount of money, typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short period of time. There is no guarantee that paying the extortion price will recover the damaged data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or deleted throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, whereby the victim is tricked into responding to by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email message to appear to come from a familiar sender. Another common attack vector is a poorly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by the many versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every other year. Famous attacks are Locky, and NotPetya. Current headline threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Cerber are more sophisticated and have caused more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup/recovery processes permit your business to recover your ransomed files, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because new variants of ransomware are launched daily, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-based anti-virus filters will block a new malware. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to identify phishing techniques. Your last line of protection is a sound process for scheduling and keeping offsite backups plus the use of dependable recovery platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Review in Allen
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