Irvine Ransomware Filtering and Cleanup Solutions
Ransomware Readiness Assessment
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and malicious states, posing a potentially existential risk to companies that are successfully attacked. The latest strains of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even selective recovery a complex and expensive process. New variations of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Conti and Egregor have emerged, displacing Locky, Spora, and Petya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
Most ransomware infections come from innocent-seeming emails with dangerous hyperlinks or attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" variants that can escape the defenses of traditional signature-based antivirus (AV) tools. While user education and up-front identification are important to protect against ransomware, leading practices demand that you take for granted some attacks will inevitably succeed and that you put in place a solid backup solution that enables you to repair the damage quickly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Irvine network managers to collect pertinent data concerning your security posture and backup processes. Progent will use this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to adhere to best practices for configuring and administering your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or recover from a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on vital areas related to crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Security
- Proper allocation and use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Optimal firewall configuration
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access
- Advice about AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Backing up required servers such as AD
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim 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 never certain that delivering the extortion price will restore the damaged files or prevent its publication. Files can be altered or erased across a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A common ransomware attack vector is booby-trapped email, whereby the user is lured into interacting with by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email to appear to come from a trusted source. Another common vulnerability is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant 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, roughly doubling every two years. Famous examples include Locky, and Petya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and CryptoWall are more sophisticated and have wreaked more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup processes enable your business to restore your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public. Because new versions of ransomware crop up daily, there is no certainty that conventional signature-based anti-virus filters will detect the latest malware. If threat does appear in an email, it is important that your users have been taught to be aware of social engineering techniques. Your ultimate defense is a solid process for performing and retaining offsite backups plus the deployment of reliable restoration tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup in Irvine
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