Los Angeles Ransomware Protection and Remediation Expertise
Ransomware Preparedness Report
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and bad-actor states, representing a potentially existential threat to companies that are breached. Current strains of crypto-ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even selective recovery a challenging and costly exercise. Novel strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, LockBit and Nephilim have made the headlines, replacing WannaCry, Spora, and CryptoWall in prominence, sophistication, and destructiveness.
90% of crypto-ransomware penetrations are the result of innocuous-looking emails with dangerous links or attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by traditional signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. While user education and up-front detection are critical to protect against ransomware attacks, leading practices demand that you expect that some malware will eventually get through and that you deploy a strong backup mechanism that permits you to restore files and services quickly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is a low-cost service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent cybersecurity consultant skilled in ransomware defense and recovery. During this interview Progent will work directly with your Los Angeles IT management staff to collect pertinent data about your cybersecurity setup and backup processes. Progent will utilize this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to apply best 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 Assessment highlights vital areas related to crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Correct use of admin accounts
- Assigning NTFS and SMB permissions
- Optimal firewall setup
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
- Advice about AntiVirus tools identification and deployment
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Backing up required servers such as Active Directory
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or deletes files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is asked to pay a certain ransom, typically in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short period of time. It is never certain that paying the extortion price will restore the lost data or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or deleted throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware delivery package is tainted email, in which the victim is lured into interacting with by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes 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.
CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by different strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every two years. Famous attacks include Locky, and Petya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and CryptoWall are more complex and have wreaked more damage than earlier strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures permit your business to recover your encrypted files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are exposed to the public. Because new variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-based anti-virus tools will block a new malware. If an attack does show up in an email, it is important that your end users have learned to identify social engineering techniques. Your last line of defense is a sound process for performing and retaining remote backups and the deployment of reliable recovery platforms.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Readiness Assessment in Los Angeles
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