Minneapolis Ransomware Protection and Remediation Consulting
Ransomware Readiness Assessment
Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and malicious states, representing a potentially existential risk to companies that are breached. Current strains of ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even selective recovery a challenging and expensive process. Novel versions of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Conti and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and CryptoWall in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
Most crypto-ransomware breaches come from innocuous-seeming emails that include malicious links or attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" strains that elude detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) tools. While user training and frontline identification are critical to defend against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you expect that some attacks will eventually succeed and that you put in place a solid backup solution that permits you to restore files and services rapidly with minimal 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. In the course of this interview Progent will work directly with your Minneapolis IT managers to collect pertinent information concerning your cybersecurity configuration and backup processes. Progent will utilize this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to follow best practices for implementing and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to block or recover from a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on vital areas associated with crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Cybersecurity
- Correct use of administration accounts
- Correct NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Optimal firewall setup
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access
- Advice about AntiVirus (AV) tools selection and configuration
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Protecting key servers such as AD
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malicious software that encrypts or steals files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is asked to send a certain amount of money (the ransom), usually via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short period of time. It is never certain that paying the ransom will recover the damaged data or prevent its publication. Files can be altered or erased across a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A common ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, whereby the victim is tricked into responding to by a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This makes the email message to look as though it came from a trusted source. Another popular vulnerability is a poorly secured RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by the many versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every other year. Notorious attacks are Locky, and Petya. Current headline variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have wreaked more damage than earlier strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures enable your business to recover your ransomed data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed data are made public. Because additional versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus filters will detect a new attack. If threat does appear in an email, it is critical that your users have learned to identify phishing tricks. Your last line of defense is a sound process for scheduling and keeping offsite backups and the deployment of dependable recovery tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Testing in Minneapolis
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