Belo Horizonte Ransomware Protection and Recovery Services
Ransomware Readiness Evaluation
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and malicious states, posing a potentially existential threat to companies that are breached. Current strains of ransomware go after everything, including backup, making even partial restoration a complex and expensive process. New variations of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Conti and Nephilim have emerged, displacing WannaCry, Cerber, and NotPetya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
Most ransomware infections come from innocent-looking emails with malicious hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" strains that elude detection by traditional signature-based antivirus filters. Although user training and up-front identification are critical to protect against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you assume some attacks will inevitably get through and that you prepare a solid backup mechanism that permits you to restore files and services rapidly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is an ultra-affordable service built around an online discussion with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this assessment Progent will collaborate with your Belo Horizonte network managers to gather pertinent data concerning your security posture and backup environment. Progent will use this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to follow leading practices for configuring and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights vital areas related to ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Security
- Correct use of administration accounts
- Correct NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB authorizations
- Proper firewall settings
- Secure RDP connections
- Advice about AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Backing up required servers such as Active Directory
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the target is asked to pay a specified amount of money, usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short period of time. It is not guaranteed that delivering the extortion price will restore the lost files or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased across a network depending 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 booby-trapped email, whereby the user is lured into responding to by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email message to appear to come from a familiar sender. Another common vulnerability is an improperly protected RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by the many strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Notorious examples are Locky, and NotPetya. Recent high-profile variants like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Spora are more complex and have wreaked more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup procedures allow you to recover your encrypted data, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed data are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will block the latest attack. If threat does appear in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to identify social engineering tricks. Your last line of defense is a sound process for scheduling and retaining remote backups and the use of dependable restoration tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Audit in Belo Horizonte
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