Greensboro Ransomware Prevention and Cleanup Expertise
Ransomware Readiness Audit
Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and bad-actor states, representing a potentially existential threat to businesses that are breached. The latest variations of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even partial recovery a long and costly process. New strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Conti and Nephilim have emerged, replacing WannaCry, Spora, and Petya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
Most crypto-ransomware penetrations are the result of innocuous-seeming emails that include dangerous hyperlinks or file attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" attacks that elude detection by traditional signature-based antivirus filters. While user training and frontline identification are critical to protect your network against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you take for granted some attacks will eventually get through and that you put in place a strong backup mechanism that permits you to recover rapidly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report is a low-cost service built around a remote discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert skilled in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this assessment Progent will collaborate directly with your Greensboro IT management staff to collect critical information about your security setup and backup environment. Progent will utilize this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to adhere to best practices for configuring and managing your security and backup systems to block or clean up after a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key issues associated with ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Cybersecurity
- Proper allocation and use of admin accounts
- Correct NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Optimal firewall configuration
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
- Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) tools identification and configuration
- 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 variety of malware that encrypts or steals files so they are unusable or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim is asked to send a specified ransom, usually in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is never certain that paying the ransom will restore the lost files or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased across a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A common ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, whereby the user is lured into responding to by a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This causes the email to look as though it came from a trusted sender. Another common vulnerability is a poorly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by different strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Notorious examples include Locky, and Petya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Cerber are more complex and have caused more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup processes enable you to recover your ransomed files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are exposed to the public. Because additional versions of ransomware crop up every day, there is no certainty that traditional signature-based anti-virus tools will detect the latest attack. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your end users have been taught to be aware of phishing tricks. Your ultimate defense is a sound process for performing and keeping remote backups and the use of dependable recovery platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Review in Greensboro
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