Oxford Ransomware Protection and Remediation Services
Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and rogue governments, representing a possibly lethal risk to businesses that are successfully attacked. The latest strains of ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even selective restoration a complex and costly process. Novel variations of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, LockBit and Nephilim have emerged, displacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and CryptoWall in prominence, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
Most ransomware infections come from innocent-seeming emails with dangerous links or file attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" strains that elude detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. Although user education and up-front detection are important to protect your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices demand that you take for granted some malware will inevitably get through and that you prepare a strong backup solution that allows you to recover rapidly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report is a low-cost service built around an online discussion with a Progent security expert experienced in ransomware defense and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Oxford network managers to collect pertinent information concerning your cybersecurity configuration and backup processes. Progent will use this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to adhere to best practices for implementing and managing your security and backup solution to prevent or recover from a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key areas related to crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Cybersecurity
- Proper use of administration accounts
- Correct NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB permissions
- Optimal firewall setup
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol configuration
- Advice about AntiVirus (AV) tools identification and deployment
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Backing up key servers such as AD
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malicious software that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is required to pay a certain amount of money (the ransom), usually via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will restore the damaged data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or deleted throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot break the strong encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A common ransomware attack vector is booby-trapped email, in which the victim is tricked into responding to by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email message to look as though it came from a trusted source. Another popular vulnerability is a poorly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker opened the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by different versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every other year. Notorious attacks are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and TeslaCrypt are more complex and have wreaked more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup processes permit you to recover your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where ransomed data are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware are launched daily, there is no certainty that conventional signature-based anti-virus tools will detect the latest malware. If an attack does show up in an email, it is critical that your end users have been taught to identify phishing techniques. Your last line of protection is a solid process for performing and keeping offsite backups plus the use of reliable restoration platforms.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Review in Oxford
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