Salt Lake City Ransomware Defense and Restoration Consulting
Ransomware Susceptibility Review
Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and rogue governments, posing a potentially lethal threat to companies that are successfully attacked. Current variations of ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even partial recovery a complex and costly exercise. Novel strains of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, LockBit and Nephilim have emerged, displacing WannaCry, Cerber, and CryptoWall in prominence, sophistication, and destructiveness.
Most crypto-ransomware breaches come from innocuous-seeming emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by legacy signature-based antivirus filters. While user education and frontline detection are important to protect against ransomware attacks, leading practices demand that you expect that some malware will inevitably get through and that you deploy a strong backup mechanism that permits you to restore files and services rapidly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is an ultra-affordable service built around an online discussion with a Progent cybersecurity consultant experienced in ransomware defense and recovery. During this assessment Progent will cooperate with your Salt Lake City network management staff to collect pertinent information concerning your cybersecurity setup and backup processes. Progent will use this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to apply best practices for configuring and administering your security and backup solution to block or clean up after a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key issues related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Security
- Correct use of administration accounts
- Correct NTFS and SMB permissions
- Optimal firewall configuration
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
- Recommend AntiVirus tools selection and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Protecting critical servers including Active Directory
- Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they are unusable or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To avoid the carnage, the target is asked to pay a specified ransom, usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short period of time. It is not guaranteed that delivering the ransom will restore the damaged data or prevent its publication. Files can be encrypted or deleted across a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A common ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, whereby the user is lured into responding to by means of a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This causes the email message to appear to come from a trusted source. Another popular attack vector is a poorly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every other year. Famous examples include Locky, and NotPetya. Recent headline variants like Ryuk, Maze and CryptoWall are more complex and have caused more damage than older versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes allow your business to restore your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware crop up daily, there is no certainty that traditional signature-matching anti-virus filters will block a new attack. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your end users have learned to identify social engineering techniques. Your last line of protection is a solid process for performing and retaining offsite backups plus the use of reliable recovery platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Evaluation in Salt Lake City
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