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Ransomware Preparedness Review
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and bad-actor governments, representing a potentially existential risk to businesses that are successfully attacked. The latest variations of ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even partial recovery a challenging and costly exercise. Novel versions of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Snatch and Nephilim have emerged, replacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and NotPetya in notoriety, sophistication, and destructive impact.
Most ransomware penetrations come from innocent-looking emails that include malicious links or attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by traditional signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. Although user training and up-front identification are critical to defend your network against ransomware attacks, best practices demand that you take for granted some attacks will inevitably get through and that you prepare a strong backup solution that allows you to recover rapidly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is a low-cost service centered around an online interview with a Progent security expert skilled in ransomware defense and repair. In the course of this assessment Progent will collaborate directly with your Detroit IT management staff to gather critical information concerning your cybersecurity profile and backup processes. Progent will use this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to apply leading practices for configuring and managing your security and backup solution to block or clean up after a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on key issues related to ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Security
- Proper allocation and use of administration accounts
- Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB permissions
- Optimal firewall setup
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access
- Recommend AntiVirus (AV) tools selection and configuration
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Backing up key servers such as AD
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts or steals files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is asked to pay a specified amount of money, typically in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is never certain that paying the ransom will recover the damaged data or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased across a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A common ransomware delivery package is tainted email, whereby the target is tricked into responding to by a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This causes the email to appear to come from a familiar source. Another popular attack vector is a poorly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every two years. Famous examples are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Current high-profile variants like Ryuk, Maze and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have caused more damage than older strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures allow you to restore your ransomed files, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where ransomed data are made public. Because new variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-based anti-virus tools will block a new malware. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your users have learned to be aware of social engineering techniques. Your last line of protection is a solid process for performing and keeping remote backups plus the deployment of dependable recovery platforms.
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