Edmonton Ransomware Defense and Restoration Solutions
Ransomware Susceptibility Testing
Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and malicious governments, posing a possibly existential threat to businesses that are breached. Current variations of crypto-ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even partial recovery a challenging and costly exercise. Novel strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, LockBit and Egregor have emerged, displacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and NotPetya in notoriety, sophistication, and destructiveness.
Most ransomware breaches are caused by innocuous-seeming emails that include dangerous links or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" attacks that can escape detection by legacy signature-based antivirus filters. Although user education and up-front detection are important to defend your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices dictate that you take for granted some malware will eventually get through and that you put in place a solid backup solution that enables you to restore files and services quickly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup is an ultra-affordable service built around a remote discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware defense and recovery. In the course of this assessment Progent will work with your Edmonton IT management staff to collect critical information concerning your security posture and backup environment. Progent will utilize this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to adhere to best practices for configuring and administering your security and backup solution to prevent or recover from a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights key areas related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Security
- Proper allocation and use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Optimal firewall setup
- Safe RDP access
- Advice about AntiVirus filtering identification and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Protecting critical servers including AD
- Geographically dispersed backups with 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. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is required to pay a specified amount of money (the ransom), typically in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is never certain that paying the extortion price will recover the damaged data or prevent its publication. Files can be altered or deleted throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A common ransomware delivery package is tainted email, in which the target is tricked into responding to by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email to look as though it came from a trusted source. Another popular attack vector is an improperly secured RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Famous examples include WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have caused more havoc than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery procedures allow your business to recover your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where stolen data are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional variants of ransomware crop up every day, there is no certainty that traditional signature-based anti-virus filters will block the latest attack. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your users have learned to identify social engineering tricks. Your last line of protection is a solid process for scheduling and retaining remote backups plus the deployment of reliable recovery platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Evaluation in Edmonton
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