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Ransomware Vulnerability Report
Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and malicious governments, posing a potentially lethal threat to companies that are breached. The latest variations of ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even selective restoration a complex and expensive process. New versions of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, LockBit and Egregor have emerged, replacing Locky, Spora, and CryptoWall in notoriety, sophistication, and destructiveness.
90% of crypto-ransomware breaches come from innocent-seeming emails with dangerous hyperlinks or file attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" attacks that elude detection by legacy signature-based antivirus tools. While user training and frontline identification are critical to protect your network against ransomware, best practices demand that you expect that some attacks will inevitably succeed and that you implement a solid backup mechanism that enables you to repair the damage quickly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is an ultra-affordable service centered around an online interview with a Progent cybersecurity consultant experienced in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will collaborate directly with your San Francisco network managers to gather critical information concerning your cybersecurity posture and backup environment. Progent will use this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to adhere to leading practices for configuring and managing your security and backup solution to prevent or clean up after a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on key issues associated with crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Security
- Correct use of admin accounts
- Correct NTFS and SMB permissions
- Proper firewall setup
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
- Advice about AntiVirus (AV) filtering selection and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Backing up key servers including Active Directory
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malicious software that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they are unusable or are publicized. Ransomware often locks the target's computer. To avoid the carnage, the target is required to pay a certain amount of money, usually via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is not guaranteed that delivering the ransom will recover the damaged data or avoid its publication. Files can be altered or deleted throughout a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A common ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, in which the victim is lured into responding to by means of a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This causes the email to appear to come from a familiar sender. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol port.
CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every other year. Famous attacks include Locky, and NotPetya. Recent high-profile variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and TeslaCrypt are more complex and have caused more havoc than older versions. Even if your backup procedures permit you to restore your encrypted data, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where ransomed documents are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no certainty that conventional signature-matching anti-virus filters will detect the latest attack. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to identify social engineering tricks. Your ultimate protection is a solid process for performing and retaining remote backups and the use of dependable recovery platforms.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report in San Francisco
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