Nashville Ransomware Protection and Restoration Expertise
Ransomware Vulnerability Review
Ransomware has been weaponized by cybercriminals and rogue states, representing a potentially lethal threat to businesses that fall victim. The latest strains of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even selective restoration a long and costly exercise. Novel variations of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Conti and Nephilim have emerged, replacing Locky, Cerber, and CryptoWall in prominence, sophistication, and destructive impact.
Most ransomware infections are the result of innocent-looking emails that have malicious hyperlinks or file attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" strains that elude detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus tools. While user education and frontline identification are critical to protect your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices demand that you take for granted some malware will eventually get through and that you implement a strong backup solution that enables you to repair the damage rapidly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup is a low-cost service centered around an online discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert skilled in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will work directly with your Nashville IT managers to gather pertinent information about your security posture and backup processes. Progent will use this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to follow leading practices for implementing and managing your security and backup systems to block or recover from a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights vital areas associated with ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Security
- Effective use of admin accounts
- Correct NTFS and SMB authorizations
- Optimal firewall setup
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol access
- Guidance for AntiVirus tools selection and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Protecting key servers such as AD
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety 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 avoid the carnage, the victim is asked to send a specified amount of money, usually in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is not guaranteed that delivering the extortion price will restore the lost data or prevent its publication. Files can be altered or erased throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware delivery package is tainted email, in which the user is lured into interacting with by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email to look as though it came from a familiar sender. Another popular attack vector is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker opened the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by different strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every other year. Notorious attacks are Locky, and NotPetya. Current high-profile variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have caused more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup processes enable you to recover your encrypted data, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new variants of ransomware crop up every day, there is no certainty that traditional signature-matching anti-virus filters will detect a new attack. If threat does appear in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to identify social engineering techniques. Your ultimate defense is a sound scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups plus the use of reliable restoration platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Audit in Nashville
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