Brighton Ransomware Protection and Removal Consulting
Ransomware Susceptibility Evaluation
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cybercriminals and malicious governments, posing a potentially existential threat to businesses that are breached. Modern versions of ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even partial restoration a challenging and costly exercise. Novel strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, LockBit and Nephilim have made the headlines, replacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and CryptoWall in prominence, sophistication, and destructiveness.
90% of ransomware breaches are caused by innocuous-seeming emails with dangerous hyperlinks or attachments, and many are "zero-day" variants that can escape the defenses of legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) tools. While user training and frontline identification are important to protect against ransomware attacks, leading practices dictate that you take for granted some malware will inevitably succeed and that you deploy a solid backup mechanism that permits you to repair the damage quickly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is a low-cost service centered around an online discussion with a Progent security expert skilled in ransomware defense and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will work directly with your Brighton IT management staff to collect pertinent information concerning your security profile and backup environment. Progent will use this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to follow leading practices for configuring and administering your cybersecurity and backup solution to prevent or recover from a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights vital areas related to ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Cybersecurity
- Correct use of administration accounts
- Correct NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Optimal firewall configuration
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
- Recommend AntiVirus tools identification and deployment
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Protecting key servers including Active Directory
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Ransomware often locks the target's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim is asked to send a certain ransom, typically in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is never certain that delivering the ransom will restore the lost files or prevent its publication. Files can be encrypted or deleted throughout a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A common ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, whereby the victim is lured into responding to by means of a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This causes the email to appear to come from a trusted source. Another popular vulnerability is a poorly 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 said to be billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every two years. Famous examples include WannaCry, and Petya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, Maze and CryptoWall are more sophisticated and have caused more damage than older versions. Even if your backup/recovery procedures permit you to recover your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public. Because new versions of ransomware are launched daily, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect the latest malware. If an attack does show up in an email, it is important that your end users have learned to identify phishing tricks. Your last line of protection is a sound process for scheduling and keeping offsite backups plus the use of reliable recovery platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Readiness Consultation in Brighton
For pricing details and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Review can bolster your defense against crypto-ransomware in Brighton, phone Progent at
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