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Ransomware Vulnerability Audit
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and rogue governments, posing a possibly lethal risk to businesses that are successfully attacked. Current variations of crypto-ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even partial restoration a long and costly process. Novel variations of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Snatch and Egregor have emerged, displacing WannaCry, Cerber, and Petya in prominence, sophistication, and destructiveness.
Most crypto-ransomware infections come from innocuous-seeming emails that have malicious hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" attacks that elude detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus tools. While user education and frontline detection are critical to protect against ransomware, best practices demand that you take for granted some attacks will eventually 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 a low-cost service built around an online interview with a Progent cybersecurity consultant skilled in ransomware defense and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Leeds IT managers to gather pertinent data concerning your security configuration and backup processes. Progent will use this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to follow leading practices for configuring and administering your security and backup solution to prevent or recover from a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights key issues related to crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Security
- Correct use of administration accounts
- Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB authorizations
- Proper firewall settings
- Secure RDP connections
- Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Protecting key servers including Active Directory
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malicious software that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is asked to send a certain amount of money (the ransom), typically in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is not guaranteed that delivering the ransom will recover the damaged data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or erased throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot break the strong encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A common ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, in which the victim is tricked into responding to by a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a familiar source. Another popular vulnerability is a poorly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every other year. Famous examples are Locky, and Petya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and TeslaCrypt are more complex and have wreaked more havoc than older versions. Even if your backup procedures permit you to recover your ransomed files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus filters will detect the latest attack. If threat does show up in an email, it is critical that your end users have been taught to be aware of social engineering techniques. Your ultimate protection is a sound process for performing and keeping remote backups and the deployment of dependable restoration platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment in Leeds
For pricing information and to learn more about how Progent's ProSight Ransomware Susceptibility Review can enhance your protection against crypto-ransomware in Leeds, phone Progent at
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