Fort Wayne Ransomware Defense and Recovery Solutions
Ransomware Preparedness Report
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for the major cyber-crime organizations and bad-actor governments, representing a possibly lethal risk to businesses that are successfully attacked. Current variations of crypto-ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even partial restoration a long and costly exercise. Novel strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, LockBit and Nephilim have emerged, displacing WannaCry, Spora, and NotPetya in notoriety, sophistication, and destructiveness.
90% of ransomware breaches are the result of innocent-looking emails that have dangerous links or attachments, and many are "zero-day" attacks that elude detection by legacy signature-based antivirus tools. Although user education and frontline detection are important to protect against ransomware, leading practices demand that you assume some attacks will inevitably succeed and that you implement a solid backup mechanism that permits you to repair the damage rapidly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is a low-cost service built around a remote discussion with a Progent security expert experienced in ransomware defense and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will collaborate directly with your Fort Wayne IT managers to collect pertinent data about your security posture and backup environment. Progent will use this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to follow best practices for implementing and administering your security and backup systems to prevent or recover from a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights vital issues associated with ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Security
- Correct allocation and use of administration accounts
- Assigning NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Optimal firewall configuration
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access
- Recommend AntiVirus (AV) tools identification and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Protecting critical servers including AD
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they are unusable or are publicized. Ransomware often locks the target's computer. To prevent the carnage, the target is required to send a certain ransom, typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is never certain that paying the ransom will recover the damaged data or prevent its publication. Files can be altered or erased throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, whereby the target is lured into responding to by a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a trusted sender. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by different strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every other year. Notorious attacks are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and CryptoWall are more elaborate and have wreaked more havoc than earlier versions. Even if your backup procedures enable your business to recover your encrypted files, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no certainty that conventional signature-based anti-virus filters will block the latest attack. If threat does appear in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to be aware of social engineering techniques. Your last line of protection is a sound scheme for scheduling and keeping offsite backups and the use of dependable recovery tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Susceptibility Consultation in Fort Wayne
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