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Ransomware Susceptibility Evaluation
Ransomware has been weaponized by cyber extortionists and rogue governments, posing a potentially existential risk to businesses that fall victim. Modern variations of crypto-ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even partial recovery a complex and costly exercise. Novel strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Conti and Nephilim have made the headlines, replacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and CryptoWall in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
90% of ransomware penetrations come from innocuous-looking emails that include dangerous hyperlinks or attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" attacks that elude the defenses of legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) tools. Although user training and frontline identification are critical to protect against ransomware attacks, leading practices dictate that you assume some attacks will inevitably get through and that you prepare a solid backup solution that permits you to restore files and services rapidly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is an ultra-affordable service built around an online discussion with a Progent security expert experienced in ransomware protection and recovery. During this assessment Progent will work with your Alpharetta network managers to gather critical data about your cybersecurity setup and backup processes. Progent will utilize this data to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to adhere to leading practices for configuring and administering your security and backup systems to block or recover from a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on vital areas related to ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Security
- Correct allocation and use of admin accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB authorizations
- Optimal firewall setup
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol connections
- Recommend AntiVirus (AV) filtering selection and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Backing up key servers such as AD
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or deletes files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To prevent the carnage, the target is asked to send a specified amount of money (the ransom), typically via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is never certain that delivering the ransom will recover the lost files or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or deleted throughout a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot break the strong encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A common ransomware delivery package is tainted email, whereby the victim is lured into responding to by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email to look as though it came from a familiar source. Another popular attack vector is an improperly protected RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every two years. Famous attacks are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent high-profile variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and TeslaCrypt are more sophisticated and have caused more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup procedures enable you to restore your ransomed files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed data are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no certainty that traditional signature-based anti-virus filters will detect the latest malware. If threat does appear in an email, it is critical that your end users have learned to identify phishing tricks. Your last line of defense is a sound process for scheduling and keeping offsite backups and the use of dependable restoration platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Testing in Alpharetta
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