Fargo Ransomware Protection and Recovery Expertise
Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and malicious states, representing a potentially lethal risk to companies that are breached. The latest variations of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even partial restoration a challenging and costly process. Novel versions of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, LockBit and Nephilim have emerged, displacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and NotPetya in prominence, sophistication, and destructiveness.
Most crypto-ransomware breaches are caused by innocent-looking emails with dangerous links or file attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" variants that can escape the defenses of traditional signature-based antivirus (AV) tools. While user training and up-front detection are important to protect your network against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you take for granted some attacks will eventually succeed and that you put in place a solid backup solution that allows you to repair the damage quickly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report is a low-cost service built around a remote discussion with a Progent security expert skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. During this interview Progent will work with your Fargo IT management staff to gather critical data concerning your security profile and backup processes. Progent will use 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 solution to prevent or clean up after a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights key areas associated with crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Proper use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB permissions
- Proper firewall configuration
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol connections
- Advice about AntiVirus (AV) tools identification and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Protecting required servers including Active Directory
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or deletes files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To avoid the carnage, the target is asked to pay a specified amount of money, typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is not guaranteed that paying the ransom will restore the damaged files or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot solve the military-grade encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is tainted email, in which the victim is lured into interacting with by means of a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This makes the email message to look as though it came from a familiar sender. Another common attack vector is a poorly protected RDP port.
CryptoLocker opened the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every other year. Famous attacks are Locky, and Petya. Recent headline variants like Ryuk, Maze and CryptoWall are more complex and have caused more damage than older versions. Even if your backup procedures allow you to restore your encrypted data, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed data are made public. Because additional variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-based anti-virus filters will block the latest malware. If threat does appear in an email, it is critical that your end users have been taught to identify phishing techniques. Your ultimate protection is a solid scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups and the use of reliable restoration tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Susceptibility Checkup in Fargo
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