Salinas Ransomware Filtering and Restoration Services
Ransomware Readiness Assessment
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and malicious governments, representing a possibly lethal threat to businesses that fall victim. Current strains of crypto-ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even selective recovery a challenging and expensive process. Novel strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Snatch and Nephilim have emerged, replacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and CryptoWall in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
90% of crypto-ransomware infections are caused by innocent-seeming emails that have malicious links or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" attacks that can escape detection by traditional signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. Although user education and up-front detection are important to protect against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you take for granted some attacks will eventually get through and that you prepare a solid backup solution that enables you to recover quickly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent cybersecurity consultant skilled in ransomware protection and repair. During this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Salinas IT managers to collect pertinent data about your security posture and backup environment. Progent will use this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to follow leading practices for implementing and administering your cybersecurity and backup systems to block or clean up after a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key areas related to crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Effective allocation and use of admin accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Optimal firewall settings
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol access
- Advice about AntiVirus tools selection and configuration
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Protecting required servers including Active Directory
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or deletes files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim is asked to pay a certain amount of money, typically via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short time window. There is no guarantee that paying the extortion price will restore the damaged data or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware attack vector is booby-trapped email, whereby the user is lured into responding to by a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a familiar sender. Another common vulnerability is an improperly secured RDP port.
CryptoLocker opened the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by the many strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every other year. Famous examples include Locky, and NotPetya. Recent high-profile variants like Ryuk, Maze and TeslaCrypt are more complex and have wreaked more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup processes permit you to recover your ransomed data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public. Because additional versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-based anti-virus filters will block a new attack. If an attack does appear in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to be aware of social engineering tricks. Your ultimate protection is a sound scheme for performing and retaining offsite backups plus the deployment of dependable restoration tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Audit in Salinas
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