Pleasanton Ransomware Prevention and Removal Solutions
Ransomware Preparedness Consultation
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and bad-actor states, posing a possibly existential threat to companies that fall victim. Modern versions of crypto-ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even partial recovery a long and expensive exercise. Novel strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Conti and Nephilim have made the headlines, replacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and Petya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
90% of ransomware breaches are the result of innocuous-looking emails with malicious hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" strains that elude detection by traditional signature-based antivirus tools. While user education and frontline identification are critical to defend your network against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you assume some malware will eventually get through and that you deploy a solid backup mechanism that enables you to restore files and services quickly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is an ultra-affordable service built around an online discussion with a Progent cybersecurity consultant skilled in ransomware defense and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will cooperate with your Pleasanton IT management staff to collect critical information about your security setup and backup environment. Progent will use this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to adhere to best practices for configuring and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to block or recover from a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights key issues related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Security
- Effective allocation and use of admin accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Optimal firewall settings
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol access
- Guidance for AntiVirus filtering selection and configuration
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Protecting critical servers such as AD
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts or deletes files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim is asked to pay a certain amount of money, typically in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. There is no guarantee that paying the extortion price will recover the damaged data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or deleted throughout 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 attack vector is booby-trapped email, whereby the target is tricked into responding to by a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a trusted source. Another common vulnerability is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every two years. Notorious attacks are Locky, and NotPetya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have wreaked more damage than older strains. Even if your backup/recovery processes allow you to restore your ransomed files, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus filters will block the latest attack. 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 sound process for performing and retaining remote backups plus the use of dependable restoration tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Checkup in Pleasanton
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