Barueri-Alphaville Ransomware Prevention and Cleanup Expertise
Ransomware Vulnerability Evaluation
Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and bad-actor governments, posing a potentially existential threat to businesses that are breached. The latest variations of ransomware go after everything, including backup, making even partial recovery a long and costly process. Novel variations of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, LockBit and Egregor have made the headlines, replacing Locky, Spora, and CryptoWall in prominence, sophistication, and destructiveness.
Most ransomware penetrations come from innocuous-looking emails with dangerous hyperlinks or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" variants that can escape the defenses of legacy signature-based antivirus (AV) tools. While user education and frontline identification are important to protect against ransomware attacks, best practices demand that you take for granted some malware will inevitably succeed and that you implement a solid backup solution that enables you to repair the damage rapidly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is a low-cost service centered around an online discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert skilled in ransomware defense and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Barueri-Alphaville network managers to gather pertinent data concerning your security profile and backup processes. Progent will use this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to follow best practices for implementing and administering your security 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 crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Security
- Effective use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Optimal firewall configuration
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol connections
- Guidance for AntiVirus tools selection and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Backing up critical servers such as AD
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to 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 avoid the carnage, the target is required to pay a certain ransom, usually in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is never certain that paying the extortion price will recover the lost files or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or erased across a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the strong encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware attack vector is booby-trapped email, whereby the victim is lured into responding to by means of a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This makes the email to look as though it came from a trusted sender. Another common vulnerability is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by the many versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every two years. Notorious examples are WannaCry, and Petya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and CryptoWall are more complex and have wreaked more havoc than older versions. Even if your backup procedures enable you to restore your ransomed files, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public. Because additional variants of ransomware are launched daily, there is no certainty that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will block the latest attack. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your users have been taught to be aware of phishing techniques. Your last line of protection is a solid scheme for performing and keeping offsite backups plus the deployment of dependable recovery tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment in Barueri-Alphaville
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