Riverside Ransomware Defense and Recovery Consulting
Ransomware Preparedness Review
Ransomware has been weaponized by cybercriminals and malicious governments, posing a possibly lethal threat to companies that are victimized. Modern strains of crypto-ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even selective recovery a complex and expensive process. Novel versions of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, LockBit and Egregor have emerged, displacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and CryptoWall in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
90% of ransomware penetrations are the result of innocuous-looking emails with malicious links or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" attacks that can escape detection by traditional signature-based antivirus filters. While user training and frontline identification are important to defend against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you take for granted some attacks will eventually get through and that you prepare a strong backup mechanism that allows you to recover rapidly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote interview with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will work with your Riverside IT management staff to collect critical data concerning your cybersecurity profile and backup environment. Progent will use this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to follow best practices for configuring and managing your security and backup systems to block or recover from a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights key areas associated with ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Correct allocation and use of admin accounts
- Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB authorizations
- Optimal firewall settings
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol connections
- Guidance for AntiVirus tools selection and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Protecting required servers such as AD
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or deletes files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the victim is required to send a certain ransom, usually in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short time window. There is no guarantee that delivering the ransom will recover the lost data or prevent its publication. Files can be altered or deleted throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the strong encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware attack vector is tainted email, whereby the target is tricked into interacting with by a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a familiar source. Another popular attack vector is an improperly secured RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by the many versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every two years. Notorious attacks are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, Maze and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have wreaked more damage than earlier strains. Even if your backup processes permit you to recover your ransomed data, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where stolen documents are exposed to the public. Because new versions of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-based anti-virus tools will detect the latest attack. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your end users have learned to be aware of social engineering tricks. Your last line of protection is a sound scheme for performing and keeping remote backups and the deployment of reliable restoration tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Readiness Evaluation in Riverside
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