Fort Lauderdale Ransomware Protection and Restoration Consulting
Ransomware Readiness Evaluation
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and bad-actor states, posing a potentially existential threat to companies that are successfully attacked. Modern strains of ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even partial restoration a challenging and costly exercise. New strains of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, LockBit and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and Petya in notoriety, sophistication, and destructiveness.
Most ransomware breaches are the result of innocent-seeming emails with dangerous hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" strains that elude the defenses of traditional signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. While user training and frontline identification are important to protect your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices dictate that you assume some malware will inevitably get through and that you put in place a strong backup solution that enables you to repair the damage quickly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote interview with a Progent cybersecurity expert skilled in ransomware defense and repair. During this interview Progent will cooperate with your Fort Lauderdale network management staff to gather critical data about your cybersecurity configuration and backup processes. Progent will utilize this data to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to adhere to leading practices for configuring and managing your security and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights key issues related to crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Cybersecurity
- Proper use of admin accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB permissions
- Proper firewall settings
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access
- Guidance for AntiVirus filtering selection and deployment
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Protecting key servers including Active Directory
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is required to send a certain ransom, usually via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is not guaranteed that delivering the extortion price will recover the damaged data or avoid its publication. Files can be altered or deleted throughout a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware delivery package is tainted email, whereby the target is tricked into responding to by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email to look as though it came from a familiar source. Another popular attack vector is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by different strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every two years. Famous examples are Locky, and NotPetya. Current headline variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Cerber are more complex and have caused more havoc than earlier versions. Even if your backup procedures allow you to restore your encrypted data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no certainty that traditional signature-based anti-virus filters will block the latest malware. If threat does show up in an email, it is critical that your users have learned to be aware of phishing techniques. Your ultimate defense is a sound scheme for performing and retaining remote backups plus the deployment of reliable restoration platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report in Fort Lauderdale
For pricing information and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment can bolster your defense against crypto-ransomware in Fort Lauderdale, phone Progent at
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