Irving Ransomware Filtering and Cleanup Consulting
Ransomware Susceptibility Assessment
Ransomware has been weaponized by cyber extortionists and bad-actor governments, representing a potentially lethal threat to businesses that are successfully attacked. Current versions of ransomware target everything, including backup, making even selective recovery a challenging and costly process. Novel strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, LockBit and Egregor have made the headlines, displacing WannaCry, Spora, and Petya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
90% of ransomware infections are the result of innocent-looking emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" attacks that can escape detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus filters. Although user education and frontline identification are important to protect your network against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you assume some malware will inevitably succeed and that you deploy a solid backup solution that allows you to restore files and services rapidly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware protection and repair. During this interview Progent will work with your Irving IT management staff to gather pertinent data concerning your security profile and backup environment. Progent will use this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to apply 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 issues associated with ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Security
- Proper use of administration accounts
- Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB permissions
- Optimal firewall setup
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) configuration
- Recommend AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and configuration
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Backing up required servers including AD
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is required to send a specified amount of money (the ransom), typically via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief time window. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will recover the lost files or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or deleted throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot solve the military-grade encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, in which the victim is tricked into responding to by means of a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This causes the email to appear to come from a familiar source. Another common attack vector is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every two years. Famous examples include WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, Maze and CryptoWall are more complex and have caused more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup procedures permit you to restore your encrypted data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware crop up every day, there is no certainty that traditional signature-based anti-virus tools will block a new attack. If threat does appear in an email, it is critical that your end users have learned to identify phishing tricks. Your last line of protection is a solid scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups plus the deployment of reliable restoration platforms.
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