Baltimore Ransomware Protection and Restoration Services
Ransomware Vulnerability Review
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for the major cyber-crime organizations and bad-actor governments, posing a possibly lethal risk to companies that fall victim. Current strains of ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even partial recovery a long and expensive exercise. Novel strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Conti and Egregor have emerged, displacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and Petya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
Most crypto-ransomware infections come from innocuous-seeming emails with dangerous hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus tools. Although user education and up-front detection are important to protect your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices dictate that you assume some attacks will eventually get through and that you prepare a strong backup solution that allows you to restore files and services quickly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is a low-cost service built around a remote interview with a Progent cybersecurity consultant experienced in ransomware defense and repair. In the course of this assessment Progent will cooperate directly with your Baltimore IT management staff to collect critical information concerning your security setup and backup processes. Progent will use this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to apply leading practices for implementing and managing your security and backup solution to prevent or recover from a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key issues associated with ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Security
- Correct allocation and use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Optimal firewall setup
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol access
- Advice about AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Protecting key servers such as AD
- Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the target's computer. To prevent the damage, the target is asked to pay a specified ransom, typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is never certain that delivering the ransom will recover the lost files or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or deleted throughout a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A common ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, in which the victim is lured into responding to by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email message to look as though it came from a trusted sender. Another common attack vector is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by the many strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every two years. Famous attacks include Locky, and Petya. Current headline threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and CryptoWall are more sophisticated and have wreaked more damage than earlier strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures allow you to recover your encrypted files, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus filters will detect the latest attack. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your end users have learned to be aware of social engineering tricks. Your ultimate protection is a solid scheme for performing and keeping remote backups plus the deployment of dependable restoration tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Assessment in Baltimore
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