Chatsworth Ransomware Prevention and Removal Expertise
Ransomware Readiness Evaluation
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for the major cyber-crime organizations and rogue states, representing a possibly existential threat to businesses that fall victim. Current strains of crypto-ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even partial recovery a complex and costly process. Novel versions of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Conti and Egregor have emerged, replacing Locky, Cerber, and CryptoWall in prominence, sophistication, and destructiveness.
Most crypto-ransomware infections come from innocent-looking emails that include malicious hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by legacy signature-based antivirus filters. While user training and frontline identification are critical to protect against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you expect that some malware will eventually get through and that you deploy a strong backup solution that allows you to restore files and services rapidly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup is an ultra-affordable service built around a remote interview with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware defense and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will work with your Chatsworth IT management staff to gather pertinent data concerning your security configuration and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to follow leading practices for implementing and administering your security and backup systems to block or recover from a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on key issues related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Proper use of admin accounts
- Correct NTFS and SMB authorizations
- Proper firewall settings
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol configuration
- Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) filtering selection and configuration
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Protecting required servers such as AD
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or steals files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware often locks the target's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is required to pay a specified amount of money (the ransom), usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is not guaranteed that delivering the extortion price will restore the lost data or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or deleted across a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, in which the target is tricked into interacting with by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email message to look as though it came from a familiar 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 monetary losses caused by different strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every two years. Famous examples include Locky, and Petya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Cerber are more sophisticated and have caused more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup processes enable you to recover your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed data 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 tools will detect a new attack. If threat does show up in an email, it is critical that your users have learned to identify phishing techniques. Your ultimate protection is a sound scheme for performing and keeping remote backups and the deployment of reliable recovery platforms.
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