Boston Ransomware Prevention and Recovery Services
Ransomware Susceptibility Review
Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and rogue governments, representing a potentially existential threat to companies that fall victim. Current versions of ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even partial restoration a long and costly exercise. New variations of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, LockBit and Egregor have emerged, displacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and CryptoWall in prominence, sophistication, and destructive impact.
90% of crypto-ransomware breaches are the result of innocent-seeming emails with dangerous links or attachments, and many are "zero-day" variants that can escape the defenses of traditional signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. While user education and frontline identification are important to defend your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices demand that you assume some attacks will eventually get through and that you implement a solid backup solution that enables you to repair the damage rapidly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is a low-cost service centered around a remote interview with a Progent cybersecurity expert skilled in ransomware defense and repair. During this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Boston IT management staff to gather critical data about your security posture and backup processes. Progent will utilize this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to adhere to leading practices for implementing and managing your security and backup solution to block or recover from a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights key areas related to crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Correct use of administration accounts
- Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Optimal firewall settings
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
- Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and configuration
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Protecting key servers such as Active Directory
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malicious software that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they are unusable or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware often locks the target's computer. To avoid the damage, the victim is asked to pay a specified amount of money (the ransom), usually in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short period of time. There is no guarantee that paying the extortion price will recover the lost data or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or deleted across a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A common ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, whereby the user is lured into responding to by a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This causes the email message to appear to come from a trusted source. Another common vulnerability is an improperly protected RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every other year. Notorious examples are Locky, and Petya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Spora are more complex and have wreaked more havoc than earlier versions. Even if your backup processes allow your business to recover your encrypted data, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public. Because new versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no certainty that traditional signature-matching anti-virus filters will detect a new attack. If an attack does show up in an email, it is critical that your end users have been taught to be aware of phishing tricks. Your last line of protection is a solid process for scheduling and keeping remote backups plus the deployment of dependable recovery platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Assessment in Boston
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