Cincinnati Ransomware Prevention and Recovery Expertise
Ransomware Readiness Testing
Ransomware has been weaponized by cybercriminals and malicious states, representing a potentially lethal threat to companies that are successfully attacked. The latest versions of ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even selective recovery a long and costly exercise. Novel strains of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Conti and Egregor have emerged, displacing Locky, Spora, and NotPetya in prominence, sophistication, and destructiveness.
Most crypto-ransomware penetrations come from innocuous-seeming emails with dangerous links or attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. While user training and frontline identification are critical to defend against ransomware, leading practices demand that you take for granted some attacks will inevitably get through and that you implement a strong backup solution that allows you to recover quickly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is an ultra-affordable service centered around an online interview with a Progent security expert experienced in ransomware defense and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will collaborate with your Cincinnati IT managers to gather pertinent information concerning your cybersecurity profile and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to apply best practices for configuring and managing your security and backup solution to prevent or clean up after a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights vital areas related to crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Security
- Effective allocation and use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Proper firewall setup
- Secure RDP connections
- Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and deployment
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Backing up key servers such as AD
- Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or steals files so they are unusable or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is asked to pay a specified amount of money (the ransom), usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will recover the damaged files or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or deleted across a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A common ransomware attack vector is booby-trapped email, in which the target is tricked into responding to by a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a familiar source. Another common attack vector is a poorly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every other year. Famous examples are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Current headline variants like Ryuk, Maze and Spora are more sophisticated and have caused more damage than older strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures allow your business to restore your ransomed data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new variants of ransomware are launched daily, there is no certainty that traditional signature-based anti-virus filters will block the latest attack. If threat does appear in an email, it is critical that your end users have been taught to be aware of social engineering tricks. Your ultimate protection is a solid process for performing and retaining remote backups plus the deployment of reliable recovery tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report in Cincinnati
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