Chicago Ransomware Protection and Cleanup Services
Ransomware Vulnerability Evaluation
Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and malicious states, posing a possibly existential risk to companies that are victimized. The latest versions of ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even selective restoration a challenging and expensive exercise. Novel versions of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, LockBit and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and Petya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
90% of ransomware breaches are the result of innocuous-looking emails with dangerous hyperlinks or file attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" attacks that can escape the defenses of traditional signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. While user education and frontline identification are important to defend against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you assume some malware will eventually succeed and that you put in place a strong backup solution that enables you to restore files and services rapidly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is a low-cost service centered around an online interview with a Progent security consultant experienced in ransomware defense and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will collaborate directly with your Chicago network management staff to collect critical information concerning your cybersecurity profile and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to follow best practices for configuring and managing your security and backup solution to prevent or recover from a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on vital issues associated with crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Correct use of admin accounts
- Assigning NTFS and SMB authorizations
- Optimal firewall configuration
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol configuration
- Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and deployment
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Protecting critical servers including AD
- Offsite 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. Ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To prevent the carnage, the target is asked to pay a certain ransom, usually via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief time window. There is no guarantee that paying the extortion price will restore the damaged data or avoid its publication. Files can be altered or erased across a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware attack vector is tainted email, whereby the target is lured into responding to by a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This causes the email to appear to come from a familiar sender. Another common attack vector is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by the many versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every two years. Notorious examples include WannaCry, and Petya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, Maze and TeslaCrypt are more sophisticated and have caused more havoc than earlier strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures enable you to restore your encrypted files, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-based anti-virus filters will block a new attack. If threat does show up in an email, it is critical that your users have been taught to identify social engineering techniques. Your last line of defense is a solid scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups and the use of dependable recovery platforms.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Review in Chicago
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