Pittsburgh Ransomware Prevention and Remediation Solutions
Ransomware Preparedness Consultation
Ransomware has been weaponized by cybercriminals and rogue states, posing a potentially lethal risk to businesses that fall victim. Modern variations of crypto-ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even selective restoration a long and costly exercise. Novel strains of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, LockBit and Egregor have made the headlines, displacing Locky, Spora, and NotPetya in prominence, sophistication, and destructive impact.
90% of crypto-ransomware infections are caused by innocuous-looking emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or file attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" strains that elude detection by traditional signature-matching antivirus tools. Although user education and up-front identification are critical to protect your network against ransomware, best practices dictate that you take for granted some attacks will eventually succeed and that you put in place a solid backup solution that enables you to repair the damage rapidly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is a low-cost service centered around an online interview with a Progent cybersecurity consultant experienced in ransomware defense and recovery. During this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Pittsburgh network management staff to collect critical data about your cybersecurity configuration and backup environment. Progent will use this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to apply best practices for implementing and administering your security and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights key areas related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Security
- Effective use of admin accounts
- Appropriate NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Proper firewall settings
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
- Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) tools identification and configuration
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Protecting critical servers such as Active Directory
- Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or steals files so they are unusable or are publicized. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the carnage, the target is required to pay a certain ransom, typically in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is not guaranteed that paying the ransom will restore the lost files or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased across a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, whereby the user is lured into interacting with by means of a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This causes the email message to appear to come from a familiar source. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) 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 per year, more than doubling every two years. Notorious examples are Locky, and Petya. Current headline threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and TeslaCrypt are more complex and have wreaked more damage than older versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes allow you to restore your encrypted files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where stolen documents are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus filters will detect the latest attack. If an attack does show up in an email, it is important that your users have learned to be aware of phishing techniques. Your ultimate protection is a sound scheme for performing and keeping remote backups plus the use of reliable restoration tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Susceptibility Review in Pittsburgh
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