Augusta-Richmond County Ransomware Prevention and Cleanup Expertise
Ransomware Preparedness Evaluation
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and malicious governments, representing a possibly lethal risk to companies that fall victim. The latest variations of ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even partial recovery a complex and expensive process. New strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Conti and Egregor have emerged, replacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and Petya in notoriety, sophistication, and destructiveness.
Most ransomware breaches are the result of innocuous-looking emails that have malicious links or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" attacks that elude the defenses of legacy signature-matching antivirus filters. Although user education and up-front detection are important to protect your network against ransomware attacks, best practices demand that you take for granted some malware will inevitably get through and that you put in place a solid backup solution that enables you to recover quickly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is an ultra-affordable service built around an online interview with a Progent cybersecurity expert skilled in ransomware defense and recovery. In the course of this assessment Progent will cooperate with your Augusta-Richmond County IT management staff to collect critical information concerning your cybersecurity configuration and backup environment. Progent will use this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to adhere to best practices for implementing and administering your cybersecurity and backup systems to block or clean up after a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights key areas related to crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Security
- Correct use of administration accounts
- Correct NTFS and SMB permissions
- Proper firewall settings
- Safe RDP connections
- Recommend AntiVirus filtering selection and configuration
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Backing up critical servers including Active Directory
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malicious software that encrypts or deletes files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim is asked to pay a certain ransom, usually via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is not guaranteed that delivering the extortion price will restore the damaged data or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or deleted across a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A common ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, whereby the target is tricked into interacting with by means of a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a trusted source. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every other year. Famous attacks are Locky, and NotPetya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and TeslaCrypt are more sophisticated and have caused more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup processes enable your business to recover your encrypted data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed data are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware are launched daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus filters will block a new attack. If threat does show up in an email, it is critical that your users have learned to be aware of phishing techniques. Your last line of defense is a solid scheme for performing and keeping remote backups plus the use of reliable restoration tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment in Augusta-Richmond County
For pricing details and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment can bolster your protection against crypto-ransomware in Augusta-Richmond County, phone Progent at
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