Mexico City Ransomware Defense and Restoration Expertise
Ransomware Susceptibility Checkup
Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and malicious governments, representing a potentially existential threat to companies that are breached. The latest strains of crypto-ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even selective recovery a complex and costly exercise. Novel versions of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Snatch and Egregor have emerged, displacing Locky, Cerber, and Petya in prominence, sophistication, and destructive impact.
Most ransomware breaches are caused by innocent-looking emails that have malicious links or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" attacks that can escape the defenses of traditional signature-matching antivirus filters. While user education and up-front identification are important to defend against ransomware attacks, leading practices demand that you take for granted some attacks will inevitably get through and that you prepare a solid backup mechanism that allows you to repair the damage rapidly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report is a low-cost service built around a remote interview with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will cooperate with your Mexico City IT management staff to gather critical information about your security profile and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to follow leading practices for configuring and administering your security and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights key areas associated with ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Effective allocation and use of administration accounts
- Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB permissions
- Proper firewall settings
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) configuration
- Guidance for AntiVirus filtering selection and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Protecting critical servers such as Active Directory
- Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is required to send a specified amount of money, usually via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short period of time. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will recover the lost data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or deleted throughout a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, in which the target is tricked into responding to by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email message to appear to come from a familiar sender. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly secured RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by the many strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every other year. Notorious examples are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent headline variants like Ryuk, Maze and Cerber are more complex and have wreaked more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery procedures enable you to recover your encrypted files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed data are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware are launched daily, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will block the latest attack. If an attack does appear in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to be aware of social engineering tricks. Your ultimate defense is a solid scheme for scheduling and keeping offsite backups plus the use of reliable recovery tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Testing in Mexico City
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