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Ransomware Readiness Report
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and malicious governments, posing a possibly existential threat to businesses that are victimized. The latest variations of crypto-ransomware go after everything, including backup, making even partial recovery a complex and expensive process. New versions of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, LockBit and Nephilim have made the headlines, replacing WannaCry, Cerber, and NotPetya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
90% of ransomware infections are the result of innocuous-seeming emails with malicious links or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" variants that elude detection by traditional signature-matching antivirus (AV) tools. While user training and frontline detection are critical to defend against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you take for granted some malware will inevitably succeed and that you deploy a strong backup solution that permits you to recover rapidly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is a low-cost service centered around an online interview with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware protection and repair. During this assessment Progent will work with your London network management staff to collect critical data concerning your cybersecurity profile and backup processes. Progent will utilize this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to adhere to best practices for configuring and managing your security and backup systems to block or recover from a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on vital issues associated with ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Security
- Effective use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Proper firewall settings
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access
- Advice about AntiVirus filtering identification and configuration
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Backing up required servers such as AD
- Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To avoid the carnage, the victim is asked to pay a specified amount of money (the ransom), usually via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is never certain that paying the extortion price will recover the lost files or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or erased across a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A common ransomware delivery package is tainted email, whereby the victim is tricked into responding to by means of a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This makes the email message to look as though it came from a trusted source. Another common vulnerability is a poorly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Famous attacks include WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent headline variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and CryptoWall are more elaborate and have wreaked more damage than earlier strains. Even if your backup/recovery processes enable you to restore your ransomed files, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are made public. Because additional versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no certainty that conventional signature-based anti-virus tools will block the latest attack. If threat does appear in an email, it is important that your end users have learned to be aware of phishing tricks. Your last line of protection is a solid process for scheduling and keeping offsite backups and the deployment of reliable restoration platforms.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Susceptibility Review in London
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