Memphis Ransomware Protection and Restoration Solutions
Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cyber extortionists and malicious governments, representing a possibly existential threat to companies that are successfully attacked. The latest strains of crypto-ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even selective restoration a complex and costly process. Novel versions of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Snatch and Egregor have made the headlines, replacing WannaCry, Cerber, and NotPetya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
Most ransomware infections are caused by innocuous-seeming emails that include malicious links or file attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" attacks that can escape detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus filters. Although user education and frontline identification are critical to protect your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices demand that you assume some malware will inevitably succeed and that you put in place a strong backup solution that permits you to recover rapidly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is a low-cost service centered around an online interview with a Progent cybersecurity consultant skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will cooperate with your Memphis network managers to gather pertinent data about your security setup and backup environment. Progent will utilize this data to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to apply leading practices for configuring and managing your security and backup systems to block or recover from a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights vital areas related to ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Effective allocation and use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB permissions
- Proper firewall configuration
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol access
- Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) tools identification and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Backing up key servers such as Active Directory
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malicious software that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the target is required to send a specified amount of money (the ransom), typically in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short period of time. It is never certain that delivering the ransom will recover the damaged data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A common ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, whereby the victim is tricked into interacting with 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 popular attack vector is a poorly protected RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every other year. Famous attacks are Locky, and Petya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, Maze and Cerber are more elaborate and have caused more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup procedures enable your business to recover your encrypted files, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where stolen data are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware are launched daily, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will block a new malware. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your end users have been taught to identify social engineering techniques. Your ultimate protection is a sound scheme for scheduling and keeping offsite backups plus the use of dependable restoration platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Consultation in Memphis
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