Rio de Janeiro Ransomware Filtering and Remediation Consulting
Ransomware Preparedness Report
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and rogue states, posing a possibly lethal threat to businesses that are victimized. The latest versions of crypto-ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even partial restoration a challenging and expensive process. Novel variations of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Snatch and Egregor have made the headlines, displacing Locky, Cerber, and Petya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
90% of ransomware infections are caused by innocuous-seeming emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" attacks that elude the defenses of traditional signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. Although user training and up-front detection are important to protect against ransomware, leading practices demand that you take for granted some attacks will inevitably succeed and that you deploy a solid backup mechanism that enables you to repair the damage quickly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is an ultra-affordable service built around a remote interview with a Progent security expert experienced in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will work with your Rio de Janeiro IT management staff to collect critical data about your security configuration and backup environment. Progent will use this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to apply best practices for configuring and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to block or clean up after a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights key issues associated with crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Proper allocation and use of administration accounts
- Correct NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Optimal firewall setup
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol configuration
- Recommend AntiVirus (AV) tools selection and configuration
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Protecting required servers including Active Directory
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is required to send a certain ransom, usually in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short period of time. It is not guaranteed that delivering the extortion price will recover the lost files or prevent its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A common ransomware delivery package is tainted email, whereby the target is lured into responding to by means of a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a familiar source. Another common attack vector is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by different versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every two years. Notorious examples are Locky, and NotPetya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and CryptoWall are more sophisticated and have wreaked more damage than earlier strains. Even if your backup procedures permit you to restore your ransomed data, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public. Because new versions of ransomware are launched daily, there is no certainty that conventional signature-based anti-virus filters will detect a new attack. If threat does show up in an email, it is critical that your end users have been taught to be aware of social engineering techniques. Your last line of protection is a solid scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups and the deployment of dependable recovery tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment in Rio de Janeiro
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