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Ransomware Vulnerability Review
Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and malicious governments, posing a possibly existential risk to companies that are breached. The latest variations of ransomware go after everything, including backup, making even partial recovery a challenging and expensive process. Novel versions of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, LockBit and Egregor have made the headlines, replacing WannaCry, Spora, and CryptoWall in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
90% of ransomware infections come from innocuous-seeming emails that have dangerous links or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by traditional signature-matching antivirus filters. Although user training and frontline detection are important to protect against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you take for granted some attacks will eventually succeed and that you deploy a solid backup mechanism that allows 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 security consultant skilled in ransomware defense and recovery. During this interview Progent will collaborate with your Hartford network management staff to collect critical information about your cybersecurity posture and backup environment. Progent will utilize this data to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to follow best practices for implementing and managing your security and backup solution to block or recover from a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on vital areas associated with ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Security
- Correct use of admin accounts
- Appropriate NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Optimal firewall settings
- Secure RDP configuration
- Advice about AntiVirus tools selection and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Protecting critical servers including AD
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or deletes files so they are unusable or are publicized. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is asked to send a specified ransom, typically via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is never certain that delivering the extortion price will restore the lost files or prevent its publication. Files can be altered or deleted across a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, whereby the victim is lured into responding to by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email to appear to come from a trusted sender. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Notorious examples are Locky, and NotPetya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Cerber are more sophisticated and have caused more damage than older strains. Even if your backup procedures enable you to restore your encrypted data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are exposed to the public. Because additional versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no certainty that traditional signature-matching anti-virus filters will detect the latest malware. If threat does show up in an email, it is critical that your end users have learned to identify social engineering techniques. Your last line of protection is a sound scheme for scheduling and retaining offsite backups and the use of dependable restoration tools.
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