Tacoma Ransomware Prevention and Recovery Expertise
Ransomware Vulnerability Report
Ransomware has been weaponized by cyber extortionists and rogue governments, representing a possibly existential threat to companies that are victimized. Current versions of crypto-ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even selective recovery a challenging and costly process. Novel strains of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Conti and Nephilim have emerged, displacing WannaCry, Cerber, and Petya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
90% of crypto-ransomware penetrations come from innocuous-looking emails with malicious hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" variants that elude the defenses of traditional signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. Although user education and up-front identification are critical to protect your network against ransomware attacks, best practices demand that you assume some malware will inevitably get through and that you implement a solid backup mechanism that permits you to restore files and services rapidly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is an ultra-affordable service built around an online interview with a Progent cybersecurity consultant skilled in ransomware defense and recovery. During this assessment Progent will cooperate with your Tacoma IT managers to collect critical information concerning your security posture and backup processes. Progent will utilize this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to adhere to leading practices for configuring and administering your security and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key areas associated with crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Proper use of administration accounts
- Assigning NTFS and SMB authorizations
- Proper firewall setup
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access
- Guidance for AntiVirus tools identification and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Protecting required servers including Active Directory
- Geographically dispersed backups including 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. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the carnage, the target is required to send a specified amount of money (the ransom), typically in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is not guaranteed that delivering the ransom will recover the lost files or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or erased throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A common ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, whereby the target is tricked into responding to by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email message to appear to come from a familiar sender. Another common vulnerability is a poorly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every other year. Notorious examples include WannaCry, and NotPetya. Current headline threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Cerber are more complex and have caused more havoc than earlier strains. Even if your backup processes allow your business to restore your encrypted data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no certainty that traditional signature-matching anti-virus filters will detect a new attack. If threat does appear in an email, it is critical that your end users have learned to identify social engineering tricks. Your last line of protection is a sound scheme for scheduling and keeping remote backups and the use of dependable recovery platforms.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Testing in Tacoma
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