Fort Worth Ransomware Filtering and Restoration Services
Ransomware Preparedness Checkup
Ransomware has been weaponized by cyber extortionists and bad-actor states, posing a potentially lethal threat to businesses that are victimized. Current strains of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even partial recovery a complex and costly process. Novel variations of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Conti and Nephilim have emerged, displacing WannaCry, Cerber, and NotPetya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
90% of ransomware infections come from innocent-seeming emails with dangerous links or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) tools. Although user training and up-front identification are critical to protect against ransomware, best practices dictate that you assume some attacks will eventually succeed and that you put in place a solid backup mechanism that enables you to restore files and services quickly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote interview with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware protection and repair. During this interview Progent will work directly with your Fort Worth IT managers to collect critical data concerning your cybersecurity profile and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to follow leading practices for implementing and managing your security and backup solution to block or clean up after a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key issues related to ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Security
- Correct use of admin accounts
- Correct NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB authorizations
- Optimal firewall settings
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) configuration
- Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) tools identification and configuration
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Protecting required servers including AD
- Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts or deletes files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To avoid the carnage, the victim is required to pay a specified amount of money, typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is not guaranteed that delivering the extortion price will restore the lost data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or deleted throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, whereby the victim is lured into interacting with by means of a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This causes the email message to appear to come from a familiar source. Another common vulnerability is a poorly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Notorious examples are Locky, and NotPetya. Recent headline variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Cerber are more complex and have wreaked more havoc than earlier strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures permit you to recover your ransomed files, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where stolen data are made public. Because new variants of ransomware crop up every day, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools 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 defense is a sound process for performing and retaining remote backups and the use of dependable recovery platforms.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Audit in Fort Worth
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