Lakeland Ransomware Prevention and Remediation Expertise
Ransomware Vulnerability Testing
Ransomware has been weaponized by the major cyber-crime organizations and bad-actor states, posing a potentially lethal threat to businesses that are successfully attacked. The latest variations of ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even selective recovery a complex and expensive exercise. New versions of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Snatch and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing Locky, Cerber, and CryptoWall in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
90% of ransomware infections come from innocuous-looking emails with malicious links or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" variants that can escape the defenses of traditional signature-matching antivirus tools. Although user education and frontline detection are important to defend your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices dictate that you take for granted some malware will eventually succeed and that you put in place a solid backup solution that permits you to recover rapidly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is an ultra-affordable service centered around an online interview with a Progent security expert experienced in ransomware protection and recovery. During this interview Progent will collaborate with your Lakeland network management staff to collect pertinent information concerning your cybersecurity configuration and backup environment. Progent will utilize this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to follow best practices for configuring and administering your security and backup solution to prevent or clean up after a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key areas associated with ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Proper allocation and use of administration accounts
- Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Proper firewall setup
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol connections
- Recommend AntiVirus tools identification and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Protecting key servers such as Active Directory
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts or deletes files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim is required to pay a certain ransom, usually via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is not guaranteed that delivering the extortion price will recover the lost data or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or deleted throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, whereby the user is lured into interacting with by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email to look as though it came from a trusted sender. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by different strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every two years. Famous attacks are Locky, and Petya. Recent headline variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Spora are more elaborate and have wreaked more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes enable you to recover your encrypted files, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed data are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-based anti-virus tools will block a new attack. If an attack does appear in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to identify phishing tricks. Your ultimate protection is a sound scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups plus the deployment of dependable restoration tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment in Lakeland
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