Chandler Ransomware Prevention and Cleanup Consulting
Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup
Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and malicious governments, representing a possibly lethal threat to companies that fall victim. Current variations of crypto-ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even partial recovery a complex and costly exercise. Novel strains of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, LockBit and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing Locky, Cerber, and Petya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
90% of ransomware breaches are caused by innocuous-looking emails that have malicious links or attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) tools. Although user education and up-front detection are important to protect against ransomware, best practices dictate that you take for granted some malware will eventually get through and that you prepare a strong backup mechanism that permits you to repair the damage quickly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report is a low-cost service built around an online discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. During this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Chandler IT managers to gather pertinent information about your cybersecurity posture and backup processes. Progent will utilize this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to adhere to leading practices for configuring and managing your security and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on vital areas related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Effective allocation and use of administration accounts
- Correct NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Optimal firewall configuration
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
- Recommend AntiVirus tools selection and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Backing up critical servers such as Active Directory
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the victim is required to send a specified ransom, typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is never certain that paying the extortion price will restore the lost data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or deleted across a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A common ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, in which the user is tricked into responding to by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email message to look as though it came from a familiar sender. Another common vulnerability is a poorly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by different versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every two years. Notorious examples are Locky, and NotPetya. Current headline variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Spora are more sophisticated and have wreaked more havoc than older versions. Even if your backup procedures permit you to restore your ransomed data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware crop up every day, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-based anti-virus tools will detect a new malware. If an attack does show up in an email, it is critical that your end users have learned to identify phishing techniques. Your last line of protection is a sound process for performing and keeping remote backups and the deployment of dependable recovery platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Consultation in Chandler
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