Atlanta Ransomware Filtering and Restoration Services
Ransomware Preparedness Testing
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and bad-actor governments, posing a possibly existential risk to companies that are successfully attacked. The latest strains of crypto-ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even selective recovery a long and costly exercise. Novel strains of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, LockBit and Egregor have emerged, displacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and Petya in prominence, sophistication, and destructive impact.
90% of crypto-ransomware penetrations are the result of innocuous-seeming emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or file attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by legacy signature-based antivirus tools. While user training and frontline detection are important to protect your network against ransomware, best practices dictate that you take for granted some attacks will inevitably get through and that you prepare a solid backup mechanism that permits you to recover rapidly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report is a low-cost service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent security expert skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. During this assessment Progent will collaborate with your Atlanta network managers to collect pertinent information concerning your security posture and backup processes. Progent will utilize this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to adhere to best practices for implementing and managing your security and backup systems to block or recover from a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights vital areas associated with ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Correct allocation and use of admin accounts
- Appropriate NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB permissions
- Proper firewall setup
- Secure RDP connections
- Advice about AntiVirus tools selection and deployment
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Protecting key servers such as Active Directory
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the target's computer. To avoid the carnage, the victim is required to pay a certain amount of money, usually via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is not guaranteed that paying the ransom will recover the damaged files or prevent its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased across a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware delivery package is tainted email, in which the victim is tricked into interacting with by means of a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This causes the email to look as though it came from a familiar sender. Another common attack vector is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by the many strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every other year. Famous examples include WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Cerber are more sophisticated and have caused more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes enable you to restore your encrypted data, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where ransomed data are exposed to the public. Because additional variants of ransomware are launched every day, there is no certainty that conventional signature-based anti-virus filters will detect the latest attack. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your users have learned to identify social engineering tricks. Your ultimate protection is a sound scheme for scheduling and retaining offsite backups and the deployment of reliable restoration platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Evaluation in Atlanta
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