Lexington-Fayette Ransomware Defense and Recovery Solutions
Ransomware Vulnerability Testing
Ransomware has been weaponized by the major cyber-crime organizations and bad-actor states, representing a possibly existential threat to businesses that fall victim. Modern strains of crypto-ransomware target everything, including backup, making even selective recovery a complex and expensive exercise. Novel versions of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Conti and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing WannaCry, Spora, and NotPetya in prominence, sophistication, and destructive impact.
Most crypto-ransomware infections come from innocent-seeming emails with dangerous links or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" variants that can escape the defenses of legacy signature-based antivirus tools. Although user training and frontline identification are critical to protect your network against ransomware, leading practices demand that you take for granted some malware will inevitably get through and that you put in place a strong backup mechanism that permits you to recover rapidly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is a low-cost service centered around an online interview with a Progent security consultant experienced in ransomware protection and recovery. During this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Lexington-Fayette IT management staff to gather pertinent data concerning your security posture and backup environment. Progent will use this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to apply best practices for implementing and managing your security and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on vital issues associated with ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Security
- Correct use of admin accounts
- Appropriate NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Proper firewall configuration
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol connections
- Advice about AntiVirus tools identification and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Backing up required servers such as AD
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form 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 target's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is asked to send a specified amount of money (the ransom), typically via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is never certain that paying the extortion price will recover the damaged data or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or deleted across a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot solve the military-grade encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, whereby the target is lured into responding to by a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This makes the email to look as though it came from a trusted source. Another common attack vector is a poorly protected RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every other year. Notorious examples are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Cerber are more complex and have caused more damage than older versions. Even if your backup/recovery procedures enable your business to recover your encrypted data, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where stolen data are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-based anti-virus tools will block a new malware. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your users have learned to identify social engineering techniques. Your ultimate protection is a sound process for performing and retaining remote backups and the deployment of dependable recovery tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Assessment in Lexington-Fayette
For pricing details and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Evaluation can bolster your defense against crypto-ransomware in Lexington-Fayette, call Progent at
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