Niterói Ransomware Filtering and Cleanup Solutions
Ransomware Susceptibility Audit
Ransomware has been weaponized by cybercriminals and malicious governments, posing a possibly existential risk to businesses that are successfully attacked. The latest variations of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even partial restoration a long and costly process. New versions of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, LockBit and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and Petya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
90% of crypto-ransomware breaches are caused by innocuous-looking emails that include malicious links or attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" variants that can escape the defenses of legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. Although user education and frontline identification are critical to defend your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices demand that you assume some malware will eventually get through and that you put in place a solid backup mechanism that enables you to restore files and services rapidly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is a low-cost service centered around an online interview with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware defense and recovery. During this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Niterói IT management staff to collect pertinent information about your cybersecurity profile and backup processes. Progent will use this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to follow leading practices for implementing and managing your security and backup solution to prevent or clean up after a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on key areas associated with crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Cybersecurity
- Proper use of administration accounts
- Assigning NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Optimal firewall configuration
- Secure RDP configuration
- Recommend AntiVirus (AV) tools selection and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Backing up required servers including AD
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware often locks the target's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is required to send a specified amount of money (the ransom), typically in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will recover the lost data or prevent its publication. Files can be encrypted or deleted 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 typical ransomware delivery package is tainted email, in which the target is lured into responding to by a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This causes the email to appear to come from a familiar sender. Another common vulnerability is a poorly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker opened the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every other year. Notorious attacks include Locky, and Petya. Current high-profile variants like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and CryptoWall are more elaborate and have wreaked more havoc than older versions. Even if your backup processes enable your business to restore your ransomed files, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public. Because new variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no certainty that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will block a new malware. If threat does appear in an email, it is important that your end users have learned to identify phishing tricks. Your last line of protection is a solid scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups plus the deployment of reliable restoration platforms.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Evaluation in Niterói
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