Raleigh Ransomware Filtering and Restoration Expertise
Ransomware Preparedness Testing
Ransomware has been weaponized by the major cyber-crime organizations and malicious states, representing a potentially existential risk to businesses that are successfully attacked. The latest strains of crypto-ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even selective restoration a long and costly process. New strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Snatch and Egregor have emerged, displacing WannaCry, Spora, and Petya in notoriety, sophistication, and destructive impact.
90% of ransomware infections are the result of innocent-seeming emails with dangerous hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by legacy signature-based antivirus tools. While user education and up-front detection are critical to defend your network against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you expect that some malware will inevitably succeed and that you prepare a solid backup solution that allows you to repair the damage quickly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is an ultra-affordable service built around an online interview with a Progent cybersecurity consultant skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will collaborate directly with your Raleigh network management staff to gather pertinent data concerning your cybersecurity posture and backup environment. Progent will use this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to apply best practices for configuring and administering your security and backup solution to block or clean up after a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights vital areas related to crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Security
- Proper allocation and use of administration accounts
- Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB authorizations
- Optimal firewall configuration
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol configuration
- Advice about AntiVirus tools selection and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Backing up key servers including 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 cannot be used or are made publicly available. Ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To prevent the damage, the target is asked to pay a specified amount of money, typically via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is never certain that delivering the ransom will restore the lost data or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or deleted throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the strong encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware attack vector is tainted email, whereby the user is tricked into interacting with by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email message to look as though it came from a familiar source. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly protected RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Famous examples include WannaCry, and NotPetya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and TeslaCrypt are more complex and have wreaked more havoc than earlier strains. Even if your backup procedures enable your business to recover your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where stolen data are made public. Because new variants of ransomware crop up every day, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus filters will block a new malware. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your users have learned to identify phishing techniques. Your last line of protection is a sound process for performing and keeping remote backups and the deployment of dependable restoration tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Testing in Raleigh
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