Tampa Ransomware Protection and Recovery Solutions
Ransomware Vulnerability Audit
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and rogue states, posing a potentially existential threat to businesses that fall victim. The latest variations of crypto-ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even partial restoration a long and costly exercise. Novel versions of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Snatch and Nephilim have emerged, replacing WannaCry, Spora, and Petya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
90% of crypto-ransomware penetrations are caused by innocent-seeming emails with dangerous links or file attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" attacks that elude detection by legacy signature-based antivirus (AV) tools. While user education and up-front identification are important to protect against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you expect that some malware will inevitably get through and that you prepare a solid backup mechanism that permits you to repair the damage rapidly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup is an ultra-affordable service built around an online interview with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware defense and recovery. In the course of this assessment Progent will work with your Tampa network managers to gather critical information about your cybersecurity configuration and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to follow leading practices for implementing and managing your cybersecurity and backup solution to block or recover from a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights key areas associated with ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Effective allocation and use of admin accounts
- Correct NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Optimal firewall configuration
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access
- Advice about AntiVirus (AV) tools selection and deployment
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Backing up critical servers including Active Directory
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts or steals files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the target is required to pay a specified ransom, typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is not guaranteed that paying the extortion price will recover the damaged files or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or deleted across a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot solve the military-grade encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is tainted email, in which the user is tricked into interacting with by a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This makes the email message to appear to come from a familiar source. Another popular attack vector is an improperly protected RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every other year. Notorious attacks include WannaCry, and Petya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Cerber are more sophisticated and have caused more damage than older versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes permit you to restore your ransomed files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-based anti-virus filters will detect a new attack. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your end users have learned to be aware of phishing tricks. Your last line of defense is a sound scheme for performing and keeping offsite backups plus the use of dependable restoration platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Testing in Tampa
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