Sacramento Ransomware Prevention and Remediation Consulting
Ransomware Preparedness Testing
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for the major cyber-crime organizations and rogue governments, posing a possibly lethal risk to companies that fall victim. Modern strains of ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even partial restoration a challenging and expensive process. New variations of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, LockBit and Nephilim have emerged, replacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and NotPetya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
Most ransomware infections are the result of innocent-seeming emails with malicious links or file attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" attacks that elude the defenses of legacy signature-matching antivirus filters. While user education and frontline identification are critical to defend against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you take for granted some attacks will inevitably succeed and that you implement a strong backup mechanism that enables you to restore files and services rapidly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup is a low-cost service centered around an online discussion with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware defense and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will collaborate directly with your Sacramento IT management staff to gather pertinent data about your cybersecurity profile and backup processes. Progent will utilize this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to apply best practices for configuring and administering your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or recover from a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights vital issues related to ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Cybersecurity
- Correct allocation and use of administration accounts
- Correct NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Proper firewall settings
- Safe RDP access
- Guidance for AntiVirus filtering identification and deployment
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Backing up required servers such as Active Directory
- Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is asked to pay a certain amount of money (the ransom), typically via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will restore the lost files or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or deleted across a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the strong encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A common ransomware delivery package is tainted email, in which the target is tricked into responding to by means of a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a trusted sender. Another common vulnerability is a poorly secured Remote Desktop Protocol port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by different strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every other year. Notorious attacks are Locky, and NotPetya. Current headline threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have wreaked more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes permit your business to restore your ransomed files, you can still be threatened by so-called 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 the latest malware. If threat does appear in an email, it is critical that your end users have learned to be aware of phishing techniques. Your last line of protection is a sound process for scheduling and keeping remote backups and the deployment of dependable recovery tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Testing in Sacramento
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