San Jose Ransomware Defense and Recovery Services
Ransomware Readiness Review
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and malicious states, representing a potentially existential risk to businesses that are breached. Current versions of crypto-ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even selective restoration a complex and expensive process. Novel variations of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, LockBit and Egregor have emerged, displacing Locky, Cerber, and NotPetya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
Most crypto-ransomware penetrations are the result of innocent-seeming emails that have dangerous links or file attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" attacks that elude detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) tools. Although user education and frontline detection are important to protect against ransomware attacks, best practices demand that you assume some malware will eventually succeed and that you deploy a solid backup mechanism that allows you to restore files and services quickly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote interview with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware defense and repair. During this assessment Progent will cooperate with your San Jose IT managers to collect critical data about your cybersecurity setup and backup environment. Progent will use this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to follow leading practices for configuring and managing your security and backup solution to prevent or clean up after a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on key areas related to ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Cybersecurity
- Effective allocation and use of administration accounts
- Correct NTFS and SMB authorizations
- Optimal firewall settings
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access
- Advice about AntiVirus filtering selection and deployment
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Protecting critical servers such as Active Directory
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the target is required to send a specified amount of money, usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is never certain that delivering the ransom will restore the damaged files or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or erased across a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware attack vector is tainted email, whereby the victim is tricked 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 attack vector is an improperly secured RDP port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by the many strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Famous examples include WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Spora are more elaborate and have wreaked more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery procedures allow you to restore your encrypted files, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where ransomed documents are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional variants of ransomware crop up every day, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-based anti-virus filters will block a new malware. If an attack does appear in an email, it is important that your users have learned to be aware of social engineering techniques. Your ultimate protection is a solid scheme for scheduling and keeping offsite backups and the use of reliable recovery platforms.
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