Lynnwood Ransomware Protection and Remediation Services
Ransomware Vulnerability Audit
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and bad-actor governments, posing a potentially existential threat to businesses that are breached. Modern strains of ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even partial recovery a long and costly exercise. Novel versions of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, LockBit and Egregor have made the headlines, displacing Locky, Cerber, and NotPetya in prominence, sophistication, and destructive impact.
90% of ransomware breaches come from innocuous-looking emails with dangerous links or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" attacks that can escape the defenses of legacy signature-matching antivirus tools. While user training and frontline identification are critical to defend against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you expect that some malware will inevitably succeed and that you put in place a strong backup mechanism that allows you to recover rapidly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup is an ultra-affordable service centered around an online discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Lynnwood network managers to gather pertinent information about your security profile and backup processes. Progent will utilize this data to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to adhere to best practices for configuring and administering your security and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on key issues associated with crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Security
- Proper use of administration accounts
- Correct NTFS and SMB permissions
- Proper firewall configuration
- Secure RDP connections
- Recommend AntiVirus tools selection and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Backing up critical servers such as Active Directory
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malicious software that encrypts or steals files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim is required to pay a specified amount of money, usually via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is never certain that delivering the extortion price will recover the lost data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or deleted across a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is tainted email, in which the user is tricked into responding to by means of a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a trusted source. Another common vulnerability is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every two years. Famous attacks include Locky, and Petya. Current headline threats like Ryuk, Maze and Spora are more sophisticated and have caused more damage than older strains. Even if your backup processes enable you to restore your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are exposed to the public. Because new versions 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 show up in an email, it is important that your users have learned to identify phishing techniques. Your ultimate defense is a sound process for scheduling and retaining remote backups plus the deployment of reliable recovery platforms.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Susceptibility Consultation in Lynnwood
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