São José dos Campos Ransomware Filtering and Recovery Services
Ransomware Preparedness Checkup
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and bad-actor governments, representing a potentially existential threat to companies that fall victim. Modern strains of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even selective restoration a long and expensive process. New strains of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Conti and Nephilim have emerged, displacing Locky, Cerber, and Petya in notoriety, sophistication, and destructive impact.
90% of crypto-ransomware infections come from innocent-seeming emails that have malicious links or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" strains that elude detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) tools. While user education and up-front identification are important to protect your network against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you take for granted some attacks will inevitably succeed and that you deploy a strong backup solution that allows you to recover quickly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report is an ultra-affordable service built around an online interview with a Progent security consultant experienced in ransomware protection and recovery. During this interview Progent will work directly with your São José dos Campos network managers to collect pertinent information about your security setup and backup processes. Progent will use this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to apply best practices for configuring and administering your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on key issues related to crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Effective allocation and use of admin accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Optimal firewall configuration
- Secure RDP access
- Advice about AntiVirus tools identification and configuration
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Backing up required 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 files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is asked to pay a certain amount of money, usually in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is never certain that paying the extortion price will recover the lost files or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or deleted throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot solve the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A common 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 makes the email message to appear to come from a trusted source. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly secured RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Famous attacks include WannaCry, and NotPetya. Current headline variants like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Spora are more elaborate and have caused more havoc than earlier versions. Even if your backup procedures enable you to restore your encrypted files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because new variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect a new attack. If an attack does show up in an email, it is critical that your end users have been taught to be aware of social engineering techniques. Your ultimate defense is a solid scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups and the deployment of dependable recovery tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Checkup in São José dos Campos
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