Rockville Ransomware Protection and Cleanup Solutions
Ransomware Preparedness Audit
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for the major cyber-crime organizations and bad-actor states, posing a potentially lethal threat to companies that are victimized. Current variations of crypto-ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even partial recovery a long and costly process. New strains of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Snatch and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and CryptoWall in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
Most crypto-ransomware penetrations come from innocuous-looking emails that have malicious links or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" attacks that elude detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. While user training and frontline identification are critical to defend against ransomware attacks, leading practices dictate that you expect that some attacks will inevitably succeed and that you deploy a solid backup mechanism that allows you to repair the damage rapidly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote interview with a Progent cybersecurity consultant skilled in ransomware defense and recovery. In the course of this assessment Progent will cooperate directly with your Rockville IT management staff to gather pertinent data about your cybersecurity configuration and backup processes. Progent will use this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to apply leading practices for implementing and managing your cybersecurity and backup solution to prevent or clean up after a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on vital issues related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Cybersecurity
- Effective use of admin accounts
- Correct NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Proper firewall setup
- Safe RDP connections
- Recommend AntiVirus filtering identification and configuration
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Backing up required servers such as Active Directory
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft 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 victim's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim is required to pay a specified amount of money, typically via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. There is no guarantee that delivering the ransom will restore the damaged files or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased across a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A common ransomware attack vector is tainted email, whereby the target is tricked into responding to by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email message to look as though it came from a trusted source. Another common vulnerability is a poorly secured RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every other year. Notorious examples are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent high-profile variants like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Cerber are more complex and have caused more damage than earlier strains. Even if your backup procedures enable you to restore your ransomed data, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where stolen data are exposed to the public. Because additional variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no certainty that conventional signature-matching anti-virus filters will block a new malware. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your end users have learned to be aware of phishing techniques. Your last line of defense is a solid scheme for scheduling and retaining offsite backups and the deployment of dependable recovery tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Assessment in Rockville
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