Charlotte Ransomware Protection and Recovery Expertise
Ransomware Preparedness Checkup
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cybercriminals and bad-actor states, posing a possibly existential risk to businesses that fall victim. The latest strains of ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even partial restoration a challenging and expensive exercise. Novel variations of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, LockBit and Nephilim have emerged, displacing WannaCry, Cerber, and NotPetya in notoriety, sophistication, and destructiveness.
Most crypto-ransomware breaches are caused by innocent-looking emails with malicious hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by traditional signature-based antivirus tools. Although user education and up-front detection are important to protect against ransomware, leading practices demand that you expect that some malware will inevitably succeed and that you prepare a solid backup solution that enables you to repair the damage rapidly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is an ultra-affordable service built around an online discussion with a Progent security expert experienced in ransomware protection and recovery. During this assessment Progent will work directly with your Charlotte network management staff to gather critical data about your security posture and backup processes. Progent will use this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to adhere to leading practices for configuring and administering your security and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights key issues associated with ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Correct allocation and use of admin accounts
- Correct NTFS and SMB authorizations
- Optimal firewall setup
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) configuration
- Guidance for AntiVirus filtering identification and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Protecting required servers including Active Directory
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware often locks the target's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim is asked to send a certain ransom, typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is not guaranteed that delivering the extortion price will restore the damaged files or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A common ransomware attack vector is booby-trapped email, in which the user is lured into responding to by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email to look as though it came from a trusted source. Another popular attack vector is a poorly secured RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every two years. Famous examples are Locky, and Petya. Recent headline variants like Ryuk, Maze and TeslaCrypt are more sophisticated and have wreaked more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes enable your business to restore your encrypted data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional variants of ransomware are launched every day, there is no certainty that conventional signature-matching anti-virus filters will block a new attack. If threat does appear in an email, it is important that your end users have learned to be aware of phishing tricks. Your ultimate protection is a solid scheme for performing and keeping remote backups plus the deployment of reliable recovery platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup in Charlotte
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