Valencia Ransomware Protection and Restoration Services
Ransomware Susceptibility Report
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and rogue states, representing a possibly existential threat to businesses that are successfully attacked. Modern variations of crypto-ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even selective recovery a long and expensive exercise. Novel versions of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Conti and Egregor have made the headlines, replacing WannaCry, Cerber, and NotPetya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
Most ransomware penetrations are the result of innocuous-seeming emails that have dangerous links or attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" strains that can escape the defenses of legacy signature-matching antivirus tools. Although user education and up-front identification are important to protect your network against ransomware, best practices dictate that you expect that some attacks will eventually succeed and that you prepare a solid backup mechanism that permits you to recover quickly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is a low-cost service centered around a remote interview with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware defense and recovery. In the course of this assessment Progent will collaborate with your Valencia IT management staff to gather critical data about your security profile and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to adhere to leading practices for implementing and administering your cybersecurity and backup solution to block or recover from a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights vital areas related to crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Cybersecurity
- Proper use of administration accounts
- Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB authorizations
- Proper firewall settings
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol configuration
- Recommend AntiVirus (AV) tools selection and deployment
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Backing up critical servers including AD
- Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they are unusable or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the victim is asked to send a certain ransom, usually via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is never certain that delivering the ransom will restore the lost files or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or deleted throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, whereby the user is lured into interacting with by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email to appear to come from a familiar sender. Another popular vulnerability is a poorly protected RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every two years. Famous attacks include WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and CryptoWall are more sophisticated and have wreaked more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup processes allow your business to restore your ransomed data, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect a new attack. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your users have learned to be aware of phishing techniques. Your ultimate protection is a sound process for scheduling and keeping remote backups plus the deployment of reliable recovery platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Susceptibility Checkup in Valencia
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