Porto Alegre Ransomware Prevention and Removal Services
Ransomware Preparedness Testing
Ransomware has been weaponized by cybercriminals and bad-actor states, posing a potentially lethal threat to businesses that are breached. Current variations of crypto-ransomware target everything, including backup, making even selective restoration a long and expensive process. New versions of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Snatch and Egregor have made the headlines, replacing WannaCry, Spora, and Petya in notoriety, sophistication, and destructiveness.
Most ransomware infections are caused by innocent-seeming emails that have malicious hyperlinks or attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) tools. While user education and frontline identification are important to defend your network against ransomware, leading practices demand that you assume some malware will inevitably get through and that you put in place a solid backup solution that enables you to recover rapidly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is a low-cost service built around an online discussion with a Progent security expert skilled in ransomware defense and repair. During this interview Progent will collaborate directly with your Porto Alegre IT management staff to gather pertinent data about your security posture and backup processes. Progent will utilize this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to follow leading practices for configuring and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to block or recover from a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key issues associated with ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Cybersecurity
- Correct allocation and use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB permissions
- Optimal firewall settings
- Safe RDP configuration
- Advice about AntiVirus filtering identification and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Backing up key servers such as Active Directory
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or deletes files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the target is required to pay a certain amount of money (the ransom), usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is never certain that paying the ransom will recover the lost data or prevent its publication. Files can be altered or deleted throughout a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A common ransomware delivery package is tainted email, whereby the victim is tricked into responding to by a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This causes the email to appear to come from a trusted sender. Another popular vulnerability is a poorly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every other year. Notorious attacks are Locky, and Petya. Current headline variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Spora are more complex and have wreaked more damage than older strains. Even if your backup processes permit you to recover your ransomed files, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware are launched daily, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-based anti-virus tools will detect a new malware. If an attack does show up in an email, it is important that your users have been taught to be aware of social engineering techniques. Your ultimate defense is a solid scheme for scheduling and keeping offsite backups plus the deployment of reliable restoration platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Report in Porto Alegre
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