Ontario Ransomware Prevention and Removal Services
Ransomware Susceptibility Evaluation
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and rogue states, posing a potentially lethal threat to businesses that are breached. The latest versions of crypto-ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even selective recovery a complex and costly exercise. Novel variations of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Snatch and Egregor have emerged, replacing WannaCry, Cerber, and Petya in prominence, sophistication, and destructiveness.
90% of crypto-ransomware infections are the result of innocuous-seeming emails that include dangerous hyperlinks or file attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by legacy signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. While user education and up-front detection are critical to defend your network against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you expect that some attacks will inevitably succeed and that you deploy a strong backup solution that allows you to restore files and services quickly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is a low-cost service built around a remote interview with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware defense and recovery. During this interview Progent will cooperate with your Ontario IT management staff to gather critical information about your cybersecurity profile and backup processes. Progent will use this data to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to adhere to leading practices for implementing and managing your security and backup systems to block or clean up after a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights key areas related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Security
- Effective allocation and use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Proper firewall configuration
- Secure RDP configuration
- Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) tools selection and deployment
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Backing up required servers such as AD
- Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts or steals files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is required to pay a specified amount of money (the ransom), usually via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is never certain that paying the extortion price will recover the damaged data or prevent its publication. Files can be encrypted or deleted throughout a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the strong encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A common ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, in which the target is lured into responding to by means of a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This makes the email to look as though it came from a familiar sender. Another popular attack vector is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.
CryptoLocker opened the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by the many versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Famous attacks are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Current headline threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and CryptoWall are more sophisticated and have caused more havoc than earlier strains. Even if your backup processes allow your business to recover your ransomed files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed data are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware are launched daily, there is no certainty that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect a new attack. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your end users have learned to identify social engineering techniques. Your ultimate protection is a sound scheme for performing and retaining remote backups plus the deployment of reliable restoration platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Checkup in Ontario
For pricing information and to learn more about how Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Testing can bolster your protection against ransomware in Ontario, phone Progent at
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