Bakersfield Ransomware Protection and Cleanup Solutions
Ransomware Susceptibility Audit
Ransomware has been weaponized by cyber extortionists and bad-actor states, representing a potentially existential risk to companies that are victimized. Current strains of ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even partial recovery a long and costly process. New versions of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Conti and Egregor have emerged, replacing WannaCry, Spora, and NotPetya in prominence, sophistication, and destructiveness.
90% of crypto-ransomware penetrations are caused by innocuous-seeming emails that have malicious links or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" attacks that can escape detection by traditional signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. While user education and up-front detection are important to protect against ransomware, leading practices demand that you assume some malware will inevitably succeed and that you prepare a strong backup mechanism that permits you to restore files and services quickly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent security consultant experienced in ransomware protection and recovery. During this assessment Progent will collaborate directly with your Bakersfield network managers to collect critical information concerning your security posture and backup processes. Progent will utilize this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to follow best practices for implementing and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or recover from a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key issues associated with ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Security
- Effective allocation and use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Optimal firewall configuration
- Safe RDP access
- Advice about AntiVirus filtering selection and configuration
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Protecting critical servers including AD
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or deletes files so they are unusable or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To avoid the damage, the victim is required to pay a specified amount of money (the ransom), typically via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is never certain that delivering the extortion price will recover the damaged data or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased across a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, in which the user is lured into interacting with by a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This makes the email message to appear to come from a familiar sender. Another popular attack vector is a poorly secured RDP port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by the many versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every other year. Famous examples include Locky, and NotPetya. Current headline threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Cerber are more elaborate and have wreaked more havoc than earlier strains. Even if your backup processes allow you to recover your encrypted files, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where ransomed data are exposed to the public. Because new variants of ransomware crop up every day, there is no certainty that traditional signature-based anti-virus tools will block a new malware. If threat does appear in an email, it is critical that your end users have been taught to identify phishing tricks. Your last line of defense is a solid scheme for performing and retaining offsite backups and the use of dependable restoration tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Susceptibility Checkup in Bakersfield
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