Cheyenne Ransomware Prevention and Removal Services
Ransomware Readiness Report
Ransomware has been weaponized by cyber extortionists and bad-actor states, posing a potentially existential risk to businesses that fall victim. The latest strains of ransomware target everything, including backup, making even selective restoration a complex and costly exercise. Novel variations of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Snatch and Nephilim have made the headlines, replacing WannaCry, Spora, and Petya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
90% of crypto-ransomware infections are caused by innocuous-looking emails that include dangerous links or attachments, and many are "zero-day" attacks that can escape the defenses of legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. While user education and frontline identification are important to protect your network against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you expect that some attacks will eventually succeed and that you deploy a strong backup mechanism that enables you to repair the damage quickly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is a low-cost service built around an online discussion with a Progent cybersecurity consultant experienced in ransomware defense and recovery. During this interview Progent will work with your Cheyenne network management staff to gather pertinent information concerning your cybersecurity setup and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to follow leading practices for configuring and administering your security and backup solution to block or clean up after a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key issues related to ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Security
- Proper use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB authorizations
- Proper firewall setup
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol access
- Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) filtering selection and deployment
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Backing up key servers such as AD
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or steals files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the target's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is required to send a specified ransom, typically in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is not guaranteed that paying the extortion price will recover the damaged data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or deleted across a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, whereby the victim is tricked into interacting with by a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This causes the email message to look as though it came from a familiar sender. Another popular attack vector is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (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, roughly doubling every two years. Notorious examples are Locky, and Petya. Current headline threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Spora are more sophisticated and have caused more havoc than earlier strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures permit you to restore your ransomed files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because new variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect a new malware. If an attack does show up in an email, it is important that your users have learned to be aware of social engineering tricks. Your ultimate protection is a sound scheme for scheduling and retaining offsite backups plus the deployment of dependable recovery tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Report in Cheyenne
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