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Ransomware Readiness Report
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for the major cyber-crime organizations and rogue governments, posing a potentially lethal threat to companies that are victimized. The latest versions of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even partial restoration a long and expensive process. New strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Snatch and Egregor have emerged, replacing Locky, Cerber, and NotPetya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
90% of crypto-ransomware penetrations are caused by innocent-seeming emails that have dangerous links or attachments, and many are "zero-day" attacks that elude detection by traditional signature-based antivirus tools. While user education and frontline detection are critical to protect your network against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you expect that some attacks will inevitably get through and that you implement a strong backup solution that allows you to recover quickly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is an ultra-affordable service centered around an online interview with a Progent security expert experienced in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this assessment Progent will work with your Appleton IT management staff to gather critical data concerning your security posture and backup environment. Progent will use this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to follow leading practices for implementing and managing your cybersecurity and backup solution to block or clean up after a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on vital issues associated with crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Security
- Proper allocation and use of admin accounts
- Assigning NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Optimal firewall setup
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol configuration
- Guidance for AntiVirus filtering identification and configuration
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Protecting required servers such as AD
- Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malicious software that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To avoid the damage, the victim is required to pay a specified amount of money, usually via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is not guaranteed that paying the extortion price will recover the damaged files or prevent its publication. Files can be altered or erased across a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot solve the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A common ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, whereby the user is lured into responding to by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email message to appear to come from a trusted sender. Another popular attack vector is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker opened the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by different strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every two years. Famous attacks are WannaCry, and Petya. Current headline variants like Ryuk, Maze and Spora are more complex and have wreaked more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes enable your business to restore your ransomed files, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where stolen documents are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus filters will block the latest malware. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to identify phishing tricks. Your last line of protection is a sound process for scheduling and keeping remote backups plus the deployment of reliable recovery platforms.
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