Kansas City Ransomware Filtering and Removal Services
Ransomware Preparedness Report
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and bad-actor states, representing a possibly lethal risk to businesses that are successfully attacked. Modern strains of crypto-ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even partial recovery a complex and costly exercise. Novel strains of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Conti and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing WannaCry, Cerber, and Petya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
90% of ransomware breaches come from innocent-seeming emails with dangerous links or file attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" attacks that elude detection by traditional signature-based antivirus (AV) tools. While user education and up-front detection are important to defend your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices dictate that you expect that some attacks will inevitably get through and that you prepare a solid backup solution that allows you to repair the damage rapidly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote interview with a Progent security consultant experienced in ransomware defense and repair. During this interview Progent will work directly with your Kansas City network managers to gather critical data about your security posture and backup environment. Progent will utilize this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to adhere to leading practices for implementing and managing your security and backup solution to block or recover from a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights vital issues associated with crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Security
- Correct allocation and use of administration accounts
- Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Optimal firewall settings
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol access
- Recommend AntiVirus (AV) filtering selection and configuration
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Protecting required servers such as Active Directory
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim is asked to send a certain amount of money, typically in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. There is no guarantee that delivering the ransom will recover the damaged data or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A common ransomware attack vector is booby-trapped email, in which the target is tricked into interacting with by means of a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This causes the email message to appear to come from a trusted source. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by different strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every two years. Notorious examples include WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent high-profile variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and CryptoWall are more elaborate and have caused more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup processes allow your business to restore your encrypted data, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where stolen documents are exposed to the public. Because additional variants of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-based 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 learned to be aware of phishing techniques. Your ultimate protection is a solid scheme for performing and keeping remote backups plus the use of reliable recovery platforms.
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