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Ransomware Readiness Audit
Ransomware has been weaponized by cyber extortionists and rogue governments, representing a potentially lethal threat to businesses that are breached. The latest variations of ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even selective recovery a long and expensive exercise. Novel strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, LockBit and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and CryptoWall in notoriety, sophistication, and destructiveness.
90% of ransomware infections are caused by innocent-seeming emails with malicious links or file attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by traditional signature-based antivirus tools. Although user education and up-front identification are critical to defend against ransomware, best practices demand that you take for granted some malware will eventually get through and that you prepare a solid backup solution that permits you to recover quickly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report is an ultra-affordable service built around a remote discussion with a Progent security consultant experienced in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this assessment Progent will collaborate with your Pasadena network managers to gather critical data concerning your security profile and backup processes. Progent will use this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to follow best practices for implementing and administering your cybersecurity and backup systems to block or clean up after a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key areas related to crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Security
- Effective use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB permissions
- Optimal firewall configuration
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol configuration
- Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) tools selection and deployment
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Protecting key servers such as Active Directory
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware often 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 like Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is never certain that delivering the ransom will restore the damaged data or prevent its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware attack vector is booby-trapped email, whereby the user is lured into interacting with by a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This causes the email to look as though it came from a trusted sender. Another popular attack vector is a poorly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker opened the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by different strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every other year. Notorious attacks include Locky, and Petya. Current high-profile variants like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and TeslaCrypt are more sophisticated and have wreaked more havoc than older versions. Even if your backup/recovery procedures enable your business to recover your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public. Because additional variants of ransomware are launched every day, there is no certainty that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect a new malware. If an attack does show up in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to identify social engineering tricks. Your ultimate defense is a solid process for performing and keeping offsite backups and the use of dependable restoration tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Checkup in Pasadena
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