Charleston Ransomware Filtering and Removal Solutions
Ransomware Vulnerability Testing
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and malicious states, representing a possibly lethal risk to businesses that are victimized. The latest variations of crypto-ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even partial restoration a challenging and costly exercise. New versions of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Snatch and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and CryptoWall in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
Most ransomware infections are caused by innocent-looking emails that have dangerous links or file attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" attacks that elude detection by traditional signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. Although user education and frontline detection are critical to protect your network against ransomware, best practices demand that you take for granted some attacks will eventually get through and that you prepare a strong backup mechanism that allows you to repair the damage quickly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is a low-cost service built around a remote discussion with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this assessment Progent will work directly with your Charleston IT management staff to gather pertinent data about your cybersecurity configuration and backup processes. Progent will use this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to adhere to best practices for implementing and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on vital issues associated with crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Cybersecurity
- Correct allocation and use of administration accounts
- Correct NTFS and SMB authorizations
- Proper firewall configuration
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol connections
- Advice about AntiVirus (AV) filtering selection and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Protecting required servers including AD
- Geographically dispersed backups with 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 target's computer. To prevent the damage, the target is required to pay a certain amount of money (the ransom), typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is not guaranteed that paying the extortion price will recover the damaged files or avoid its publication. Files can be altered or deleted across a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A common ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, in which the target is lured into interacting with by a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This causes the email to look as though it came from a trusted sender. Another common vulnerability is a poorly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by different versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every other year. Famous attacks are Locky, and Petya. Recent high-profile variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Spora are more complex and have caused more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes permit your business to restore your ransomed files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed data are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware are launched daily, there is no certainty that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect a new attack. If an attack does show up in an email, it is critical that your users have been taught to identify phishing tricks. Your ultimate defense is a solid scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups plus the deployment of dependable restoration tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Audit in Charleston
For pricing information and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup can bolster your defense against crypto-ransomware in Charleston, call Progent at
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