Mesa Ransomware Protection and Cleanup Services
Ransomware Vulnerability Testing
Ransomware has been weaponized by cyber extortionists and malicious governments, representing a potentially lethal risk to businesses that are successfully attacked. The latest strains of ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even partial restoration a challenging and expensive exercise. Novel strains of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, LockBit and Egregor have made the headlines, displacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and CryptoWall in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
90% of ransomware breaches are caused by innocent-seeming emails that include dangerous links or attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" strains that elude the defenses of traditional signature-based antivirus (AV) tools. While user training and up-front detection are important to defend your network against ransomware attacks, best practices demand that you assume some malware will inevitably get through and that you prepare a strong backup solution that allows you to restore files and services rapidly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this assessment Progent will collaborate with your Mesa IT management staff to gather pertinent data concerning your cybersecurity configuration and backup processes. Progent will use this information to generate 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 clean up after a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights key areas associated with crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Cybersecurity
- Correct allocation and use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Optimal firewall settings
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
- Recommend AntiVirus filtering selection and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Backing up required servers such as AD
- Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is required to send a specified amount of money (the ransom), typically in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is never certain that paying the ransom will restore the lost files or avoid its publication. Files can be altered or deleted across a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware delivery package is tainted email, whereby the victim is tricked into interacting with by a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This causes the email message to appear to come from a familiar sender. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly protected RDP port.
CryptoLocker opened the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by different versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every two years. Famous attacks include Locky, and Petya. Current headline threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and TeslaCrypt are more complex and have wreaked more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup processes enable your business to restore your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed data are made public. Because new variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no certainty that conventional signature-based anti-virus filters will detect a new malware. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your users have been taught to be aware of social engineering tricks. Your last line of protection is a sound scheme for performing and retaining offsite backups and the deployment of reliable recovery tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup in Mesa
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