Bellevue Ransomware Defense and Remediation Consulting
Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cyber extortionists and rogue governments, representing a possibly lethal threat to companies that are breached. Modern variations of ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even partial restoration a challenging and expensive process. Novel variations of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Snatch and Nephilim have emerged, displacing Locky, Spora, and Petya in prominence, sophistication, and destructiveness.
Most crypto-ransomware penetrations are caused by innocuous-seeming emails that include malicious hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" strains that can escape the defenses of traditional signature-based antivirus filters. While user training and up-front identification are important to protect your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices dictate that you take for granted some malware will eventually get through and that you put in place a solid backup mechanism that permits you to recover quickly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote interview with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this assessment Progent will cooperate with your Bellevue IT managers to gather pertinent data about your security posture and backup environment. Progent will utilize this data to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to follow leading practices for implementing and administering your cybersecurity and backup solution to prevent or recover from a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights key issues related to ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Security
- Correct use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Proper firewall configuration
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol configuration
- Advice about AntiVirus tools selection and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Protecting critical servers such as Active Directory
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malicious software that encrypts or deletes files so they are unusable or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware often locks the target's computer. To prevent the carnage, the target is required to send a specified amount of money, typically in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is never certain that paying the extortion price will restore the lost files or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or deleted throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A common ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, whereby the victim is tricked into interacting with by means of a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This causes the email to appear to come from a familiar sender. Another popular vulnerability is a poorly secured RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every other year. Notorious attacks include WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent headline variants like Ryuk, Maze and Spora are more complex and have caused more damage than older versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes enable your business to recover your ransomed data, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public. Because additional versions of ransomware crop up every day, there is no certainty that conventional signature-based anti-virus filters will detect a new malware. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your users have been taught to identify phishing tricks. Your last line of defense is a sound scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups and the use of dependable restoration platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Evaluation in Bellevue
For pricing information and to learn more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Audit can bolster your defense against ransomware in Bellevue, phone Progent at
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