Southlake Ransomware Protection and Recovery Consulting
Ransomware Readiness Consultation
Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and rogue governments, representing a potentially lethal risk to businesses that fall victim. Modern strains of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even selective recovery a challenging and costly process. Novel strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Conti and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing Locky, Cerber, and CryptoWall in notoriety, sophistication, and destructive impact.
90% of crypto-ransomware breaches come from innocuous-seeming emails that have malicious hyperlinks or file attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus tools. Although user education and frontline detection are critical to protect against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you expect that some attacks will inevitably get through and that you implement a strong backup mechanism that enables you to restore files and services quickly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is a low-cost service built around a remote discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware defense and repair. During this interview Progent will collaborate directly with your Southlake network management staff to collect critical information concerning your security profile and backup environment. Progent will use this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to apply best practices for implementing and administering your security and backup systems to block or recover from a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on vital areas related to crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Security
- Proper use of administration accounts
- Correct NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB authorizations
- Optimal firewall setup
- Secure RDP access
- Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) tools identification and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Backing up critical servers including Active Directory
- Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malicious software that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they are unusable or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is asked to send a specified amount of money (the ransom), usually via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief time window. There is no guarantee that paying the ransom will restore the damaged files or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A common ransomware attack vector is tainted email, whereby the victim is tricked into responding to by a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This causes the email message to look as though it came from a familiar source. Another popular vulnerability is a poorly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every two years. Famous examples include Locky, and NotPetya. Current headline variants like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and CryptoWall are more sophisticated and have wreaked more damage than older strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures permit you to recover your encrypted data, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed data are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect a new attack. If an attack does show up in an email, it is important that your end users have learned to be aware of social engineering techniques. Your ultimate defense is a sound process for performing and keeping offsite backups plus the deployment of reliable restoration tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Consultation in Southlake
For pricing details and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Checkup can enhance your protection against crypto-ransomware in Southlake, phone Progent at
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