Joinville Ransomware Prevention and Restoration Expertise
Ransomware Readiness Audit
Ransomware has been weaponized by cybercriminals and bad-actor states, posing a possibly existential threat to businesses that are breached. Current strains of ransomware target everything, including backup, making even selective recovery a complex and expensive process. New strains of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Snatch and Nephilim have emerged, displacing WannaCry, Cerber, and CryptoWall in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
Most ransomware penetrations are caused by innocent-seeming emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or file 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 critical to defend against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you take for granted some attacks will eventually succeed and that you implement a strong backup mechanism that permits you to restore files and services rapidly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report is a low-cost service built around a remote interview with a Progent cybersecurity consultant skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will collaborate directly with your Joinville network managers to collect pertinent information about your cybersecurity posture and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to apply best practices for implementing and administering your security and backup systems to block or recover from a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights vital areas associated with ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Security
- Correct allocation and use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB authorizations
- Proper firewall configuration
- Safe RDP access
- Recommend AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Backing up key servers such as AD
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malicious software that encrypts or steals files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim is asked to pay a certain ransom, usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief time window. There is no guarantee that paying the extortion price will recover the lost data or prevent its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, in which the target is tricked into responding to by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email message to look as though it came from a trusted source. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly secured RDP port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the new age 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. Famous examples include Locky, and NotPetya. Recent high-profile variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have wreaked more havoc than earlier strains. Even if your backup procedures enable you to recover your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where ransomed data are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect a new malware. If an attack does show up in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to identify social engineering techniques. Your ultimate protection is a solid scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups and the use of reliable recovery tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup in Joinville
For pricing information and to learn more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Checkup can enhance your defense against crypto-ransomware in Joinville, phone Progent at
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