Ottawa Ransomware Filtering and Removal Services
Ransomware Preparedness Testing
Ransomware has been weaponized by the major cyber-crime organizations and bad-actor governments, representing a possibly existential threat to businesses that are victimized. Current strains of crypto-ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even partial recovery a long and expensive process. New strains of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, LockBit and Nephilim have emerged, replacing WannaCry, Cerber, and Petya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
Most crypto-ransomware breaches come from innocent-seeming emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" variants that can escape the defenses of legacy signature-based antivirus (AV) tools. Although user training and frontline detection are critical to defend against ransomware, best practices demand that you take for granted some attacks will eventually get through and that you prepare a solid backup solution that enables you to restore files and services quickly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware protection and repair. During this interview Progent will work with your Ottawa IT management staff to collect pertinent information concerning your security profile and backup processes. Progent will utilize this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to apply best practices for implementing and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on vital areas associated with ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Effective allocation and use of administration accounts
- Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Proper firewall setup
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access
- Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and configuration
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Protecting critical servers such as Active Directory
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or deletes files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To avoid the carnage, the target is asked to send a specified ransom, usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is never certain that paying the extortion price will recover the lost files or prevent its publication. Files can be encrypted or deleted across a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the military-grade encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware delivery package is tainted email, in which the victim is tricked into responding to by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email message to look as though it came from a familiar source. Another common vulnerability is an improperly secured RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every two years. Famous examples are WannaCry, and Petya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and TeslaCrypt are more complex and have caused more havoc than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery procedures allow your business to recover your encrypted files, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public. Because additional versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no certainty that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect the latest attack. If threat does appear in an email, it is important that your users have been taught to be aware of phishing techniques. Your ultimate protection is a sound scheme for scheduling and keeping remote backups and the deployment of reliable restoration platforms.
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