Fort Collins Ransomware Prevention and Remediation Solutions
Ransomware Vulnerability Review
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cyber extortionists and bad-actor governments, posing a potentially existential risk to businesses that are victimized. The latest variations of ransomware target everything, including backup, making even partial restoration a challenging and costly process. New strains of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Conti and Nephilim have emerged, replacing WannaCry, Spora, and CryptoWall in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
Most ransomware infections are the result of innocuous-seeming emails that have dangerous links or attachments, and many are "zero-day" strains that can escape the defenses of legacy signature-matching antivirus tools. Although user education and up-front identification are critical to defend against ransomware, leading practices demand that you take for granted some malware will inevitably succeed and that you implement a solid backup mechanism that permits you to repair the damage quickly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent security expert skilled in ransomware protection and repair. During this assessment Progent will cooperate with your Fort Collins network managers to gather critical information about your cybersecurity posture and backup processes. Progent will utilize this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to follow best practices for implementing and administering your security and backup solution to block or clean up after a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key areas associated with ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Cybersecurity
- Effective allocation and use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB permissions
- Optimal firewall setup
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
- Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and deployment
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Backing up key servers such as Active Directory
- Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or deletes files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the target's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim is required to send a certain amount of money, typically via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short period of time. It is never certain that delivering the extortion price will recover the damaged files or prevent its publication. Files can be altered or deleted across a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware attack vector is booby-trapped email, whereby the target is lured into interacting with by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email message to look as though it came from a trusted sender. Another popular attack vector is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by different strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Notorious examples are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Current headline variants like Ryuk, Maze and Cerber are more sophisticated and have wreaked more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup procedures enable you to recover your encrypted files, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where stolen documents are exposed to the public. Because new versions of ransomware crop up every day, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus filters will block the latest attack. If an attack does show up in an email, it is important that your users have learned to be aware of social engineering techniques. Your last line of protection is a sound scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups plus the deployment of dependable recovery platforms.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report in Fort Collins
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