Anchorage Ransomware Filtering and Cleanup Expertise
Ransomware Readiness Evaluation
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for the major cyber-crime organizations and bad-actor governments, posing a possibly lethal risk to businesses that are breached. Current versions of crypto-ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even partial recovery a complex and expensive exercise. New variations of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Snatch and Egregor have emerged, displacing Locky, Spora, and CryptoWall in notoriety, sophistication, and destructiveness.
90% of ransomware infections are the result of innocent-seeming emails with dangerous links or attachments, and many are "zero-day" attacks that elude detection by legacy signature-based antivirus (AV) tools. Although user training and frontline identification are critical to protect against ransomware, best practices demand that you expect that some attacks will inevitably get through and that you put in place a solid backup mechanism that allows you to recover rapidly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is a low-cost service centered around an online interview with a Progent cybersecurity consultant experienced in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will cooperate with your Anchorage IT managers to gather pertinent information about your cybersecurity setup and backup processes. Progent will use this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to adhere to leading practices for configuring and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on vital areas associated with ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Security
- Proper use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB permissions
- Proper firewall setup
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
- Guidance for AntiVirus tools identification and deployment
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Backing up critical servers such as Active Directory
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To prevent the damage, the target is required to pay a specified amount of money (the ransom), usually via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short period of time. It is not guaranteed that delivering the ransom will restore the lost files or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or deleted throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, in which the target is tricked into interacting with by a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This causes the email message to appear to come from a trusted source. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by the many versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every other year. Famous attacks are WannaCry, and Petya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and CryptoWall are more sophisticated and have wreaked more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup/recovery processes permit your business to recover your encrypted files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional variants of ransomware are launched daily, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus filters will block a new malware. If threat does appear in an email, it is critical that your end users have been taught to be aware of social engineering tricks. Your last line of protection is a sound scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups and the deployment of dependable recovery platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Readiness Testing in Anchorage
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