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Ransomware Readiness Report
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cyber extortionists and rogue governments, posing a possibly lethal risk to companies that fall victim. Current versions of crypto-ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even selective recovery a complex and expensive exercise. New strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, LockBit and Egregor have emerged, displacing WannaCry, Cerber, and NotPetya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
90% of crypto-ransomware breaches come from innocuous-looking emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" attacks that can escape detection by traditional signature-matching antivirus (AV) tools. While user training and frontline detection are critical to protect your network against ransomware, leading practices demand that you take for granted some malware will eventually get through and that you prepare a solid backup mechanism that enables you to repair the damage quickly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report is a low-cost service centered around an online discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware defense and recovery. During this assessment Progent will work directly with your Houston network management staff to collect critical data about your security configuration and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to adhere to leading practices for configuring and managing your security and backup solution to block or clean up after a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on vital issues related to crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Proper use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Proper firewall settings
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol access
- Advice about AntiVirus (AV) filtering selection and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Backing up required servers including AD
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is asked to pay a certain amount of money (the ransom), usually via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short period of time. It is not guaranteed that delivering the ransom will recover the damaged files or avoid its publication. Files can be altered or erased throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A common ransomware attack vector is tainted email, whereby the target is tricked into responding to by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a familiar source. Another common attack vector is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every other year. Notorious examples include WannaCry, and Petya. Current high-profile variants like Ryuk, Maze and TeslaCrypt are more sophisticated and have caused more damage than earlier strains. Even if your backup procedures permit you to restore your ransomed files, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will block the latest malware. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to identify social engineering techniques. Your ultimate defense is a solid process for scheduling and retaining offsite backups plus the deployment of dependable restoration tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Testing in Houston
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