Glendale Ransomware Protection and Removal Expertise
Ransomware Readiness Testing
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and malicious states, posing a potentially lethal risk to companies that are successfully attacked. The latest versions of crypto-ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even partial restoration a complex and costly exercise. Novel variations of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Conti and Egregor have emerged, displacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and Petya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
Most ransomware infections are caused by innocuous-seeming emails with dangerous links or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" attacks that elude detection by traditional signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. While user training and up-front identification are important to protect your network against ransomware, best practices demand that you expect that some attacks will inevitably succeed and that you deploy a solid backup mechanism that permits you to recover rapidly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is a low-cost service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware defense and recovery. During this interview Progent will cooperate with your Glendale IT managers to collect pertinent data about your security profile and backup environment. Progent will use this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to apply leading practices for implementing and administering your security and backup solution to block or recover from a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights vital areas related to ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Cybersecurity
- Correct allocation and use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Optimal firewall setup
- Safe RDP connections
- Advice about AntiVirus filtering selection and deployment
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Backing up critical servers including Active Directory
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's 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 asked to send a specified amount of money, typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is not guaranteed that delivering the extortion price will recover the lost data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or deleted across a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A common ransomware attack vector is tainted email, in which the victim is tricked into interacting with by a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a familiar sender. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by the many strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every other year. Famous attacks include Locky, and NotPetya. Current headline variants like Ryuk, Maze and Cerber are more sophisticated and have wreaked more damage than older strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures allow you to recover your encrypted data, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where ransomed documents are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because new variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no certainty that conventional signature-based anti-virus filters will block a new malware. If an attack does show up in an email, it is important that your end users have learned to identify social engineering techniques. Your ultimate protection is a sound process for performing and keeping offsite backups and the use of reliable recovery tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Audit in Glendale
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