San Diego UCSD Ransomware Prevention and Recovery Expertise
Ransomware Readiness Testing
Ransomware has been weaponized by cyber extortionists and rogue governments, representing a possibly lethal threat to businesses that are successfully attacked. Current variations of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even partial restoration a challenging and expensive exercise. New strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, LockBit and Nephilim have emerged, replacing Locky, Cerber, and Petya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
Most ransomware breaches are caused by innocuous-looking emails that include dangerous hyperlinks or attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" attacks that can escape the defenses of traditional signature-matching antivirus (AV) tools. While user training and frontline identification are critical to defend against ransomware attacks, best practices demand that you expect that some attacks will eventually succeed and that you put in place a strong backup solution that allows you to repair the damage rapidly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is an ultra-affordable service built around a remote discussion with a Progent security expert skilled in ransomware defense and repair. In the course of this assessment Progent will work directly with your San Diego UCSD IT managers to collect critical data about your cybersecurity profile and backup processes. Progent will use this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to adhere to leading practices for implementing and administering your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or recover from a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on vital areas related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Correct allocation and use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB authorizations
- Proper firewall configuration
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) configuration
- Recommend AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and deployment
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Backing up critical servers such as AD
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malicious software that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Ransomware often locks the target's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is asked to pay a specified amount of money, usually in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short time window. There is no guarantee that paying the extortion price will recover the damaged data or prevent its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased across a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware attack vector is tainted email, in which the user is lured into interacting with by means of a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This makes the email to look as though it came from a familiar sender. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every other year. Notorious attacks are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, Maze and Spora are more elaborate and have wreaked more havoc than earlier versions. Even if your backup processes enable you to recover your encrypted files, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are made public. Because new variants of ransomware crop up every day, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus filters will detect a new malware. If threat does appear in an email, it is important that your users have been taught to be aware of social engineering techniques. Your last line of defense is a sound scheme for scheduling and retaining offsite backups and the deployment of dependable recovery tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Review in San Diego UCSD
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