Orlando Ransomware Prevention and Recovery Services
Ransomware Vulnerability Testing
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and bad-actor governments, posing a potentially lethal threat to companies that are victimized. Current strains of crypto-ransomware go after everything, including backup, making even partial recovery a complex and costly process. New variations of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, LockBit and Nephilim have emerged, displacing WannaCry, Cerber, and CryptoWall in prominence, sophistication, and destructiveness.
Most ransomware penetrations are the result of innocuous-looking emails with dangerous links or file attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" variants that can escape the defenses of legacy signature-based antivirus tools. Although user training and up-front detection are important to defend against ransomware, leading practices demand that you assume some malware will inevitably get through and that you prepare a solid backup mechanism that permits you to recover quickly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is an ultra-affordable service built around a remote interview with a Progent security expert experienced in ransomware defense and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will work with your Orlando network management staff to gather critical data concerning your cybersecurity configuration and backup processes. Progent will use this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to follow best practices for configuring and administering your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or recover from a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on vital issues related to crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Cybersecurity
- Correct allocation and use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Proper firewall settings
- Safe RDP connections
- Advice about AntiVirus filtering identification and deployment
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Backing up required servers such as Active Directory
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or deletes files so they are unusable or are publicized. Ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To avoid the carnage, the victim is required to pay a certain ransom, typically in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief time window. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will restore the damaged data or avoid its publication. Files can be altered or deleted across a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot break the strong encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, in which 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 trusted sender. Another common attack vector is an improperly protected RDP port.
CryptoLocker opened the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by different strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every other year. Famous examples include Locky, and Petya. Recent high-profile variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Cerber are more elaborate and have caused more havoc than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery procedures enable you to recover your encrypted data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed data are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus filters will block the latest attack. If an attack does show up in an email, it is important that your users have been taught to identify social engineering tricks. Your last line of defense is a solid scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups plus the deployment of dependable restoration platforms.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Readiness Checkup in Orlando
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