Montreal Ransomware Protection and Restoration Services
Ransomware Susceptibility Assessment
Ransomware has been weaponized by cybercriminals and bad-actor states, posing a potentially lethal risk to businesses that fall victim. Modern versions of crypto-ransomware target everything, including backup, making even partial restoration a long and costly exercise. New variations of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Conti and Egregor have made the headlines, displacing Locky, Cerber, and Petya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
90% of ransomware penetrations come from innocent-looking emails with malicious links or file attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by legacy signature-based antivirus filters. Although user education and frontline detection are important to protect your network against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you assume some malware will eventually get through and that you implement a strong backup mechanism that enables you to repair the damage rapidly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is a low-cost service built around an online discussion with a Progent security expert skilled in ransomware defense and recovery. During this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Montreal IT management staff to collect pertinent information concerning your cybersecurity configuration and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to follow leading practices for implementing and administering your security and backup solution to block or recover from a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights key issues related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Correct use of admin accounts
- Correct NTFS and SMB permissions
- Proper firewall setup
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol access
- Advice about AntiVirus (AV) tools identification and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Backing up required servers such as AD
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or deletes files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the carnage, the target is required to send a certain amount of money (the ransom), typically in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief time window. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will recover the damaged data or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A common ransomware attack vector is booby-trapped email, in which the victim 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 sender. Another common attack vector is a poorly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by the many strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every two years. Famous attacks include Locky, and NotPetya. Recent headline variants like Ryuk, Maze and Cerber are more sophisticated and have caused more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures enable you to recover your encrypted files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are made public. Because additional variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no certainty that conventional signature-matching anti-virus filters will detect the latest malware. If an attack does appear in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to be aware of social engineering tricks. Your ultimate defense is a sound scheme for performing and keeping remote backups plus the use of reliable restoration tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Evaluation in Montreal
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