Philadelphia Ransomware Filtering and Cleanup Services
Ransomware Readiness Audit
Ransomware has been weaponized by the major cyber-crime organizations and malicious governments, representing a potentially lethal threat to businesses that are breached. Current variations of crypto-ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even partial recovery a challenging and expensive process. Novel variations of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Conti and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and CryptoWall in prominence, sophistication, and destructiveness.
Most crypto-ransomware infections are the result of innocuous-looking emails that have dangerous links or file attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" variants that elude detection by traditional signature-based antivirus filters. Although user training and up-front detection are critical to protect your network against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you assume some attacks will inevitably succeed and that you prepare a solid backup mechanism that allows you to repair the damage rapidly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is an ultra-affordable service centered around an online discussion with a Progent security expert skilled in ransomware defense and recovery. In the course of this assessment Progent will collaborate with your Philadelphia IT management staff to gather critical information concerning your security posture and backup processes. Progent will use this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to adhere to leading practices for implementing and managing your cybersecurity and backup solution to block or recover from a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights vital areas related to ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Security
- Proper use of admin accounts
- Assigning NTFS and SMB authorizations
- Optimal firewall settings
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
- Recommend AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Protecting key servers such as AD
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the victim is required to send a certain amount of money (the ransom), typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short period of time. It is not guaranteed that delivering the ransom will restore the damaged files or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or erased across a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A common ransomware attack vector is tainted email, whereby the target is lured into responding to by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email to look as though it came from a trusted source. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by the many versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every other year. Famous examples are Locky, and Petya. Recent headline variants like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and CryptoWall are more complex and have wreaked more havoc than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery procedures permit you to recover your ransomed files, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where ransomed data are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no certainty that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect a new malware. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your users have been taught to identify social engineering techniques. Your last line of defense is a solid process for scheduling and retaining offsite backups plus the deployment of dependable recovery platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Evaluation in Philadelphia
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