Manaus Ransomware Defense and Restoration Expertise
Ransomware Vulnerability Report
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cyber extortionists and rogue governments, posing a possibly existential threat to businesses that are breached. Current variations of crypto-ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even partial recovery a long and expensive process. Novel strains of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, LockBit and Egregor have made the headlines, displacing Locky, Spora, and NotPetya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
90% of ransomware infections come from innocent-seeming emails that have malicious hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" variants that elude the defenses of legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. Although user education and up-front detection are important to protect against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you take for granted some malware will inevitably get through and that you deploy a strong backup solution that allows you to repair the damage quickly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is an ultra-affordable service centered around an online discussion with a Progent security expert skilled in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will work directly with your Manaus IT managers to gather critical data concerning your cybersecurity setup and backup processes. Progent will use this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to follow best practices for configuring and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or recover from a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights key areas associated with ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Cybersecurity
- Proper allocation and use of administration accounts
- Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB permissions
- Optimal firewall configuration
- Secure RDP access
- Advice about AntiVirus tools identification and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Backing up key servers such as AD
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware often locks the target's computer. To prevent the damage, the target is required to pay a certain ransom, typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is not guaranteed that delivering the extortion price will recover the lost data or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or deleted throughout a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, whereby the user is lured into responding to by a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This makes the email to look as though it came from a familiar source. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by the many strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every other year. Famous attacks include Locky, and Petya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, Maze and TeslaCrypt are more sophisticated and have caused more havoc than older versions. Even if your backup processes allow your business to restore your ransomed files, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware crop up daily, there is no certainty that conventional signature-based anti-virus tools will detect a new attack. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your end users have learned to identify phishing tricks. Your ultimate protection is a sound scheme for scheduling and keeping offsite backups plus the use of reliable recovery platforms.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup in Manaus
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