San Juan Ransomware Defense and Restoration Solutions
Ransomware Vulnerability Report
Ransomware has been weaponized by cyber extortionists and rogue states, representing a potentially lethal risk to businesses that are successfully attacked. The latest versions of ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even partial recovery a challenging and expensive exercise. Novel versions of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Snatch and Egregor have made the headlines, displacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and Petya in prominence, sophistication, and destructive impact.
90% of crypto-ransomware breaches are caused by innocent-seeming emails that include dangerous links or attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. While user education and up-front identification are critical to protect against ransomware attacks, best practices demand that you take for granted some attacks will eventually get through and that you prepare a strong backup mechanism that enables you to restore files and services rapidly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is an ultra-affordable service centered around an online discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware defense and repair. During this interview Progent will work directly with your San Juan network management staff to gather pertinent data about your cybersecurity setup and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to follow best practices for configuring and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on vital areas associated with ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Cybersecurity
- Effective use of admin accounts
- Correct NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Proper firewall setup
- Safe RDP connections
- Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) filtering selection and configuration
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Protecting key servers including Active Directory
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or steals files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To avoid the carnage, the target is asked to send a certain amount of money, typically in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short period of time. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will restore the damaged files or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A common ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, whereby the user is tricked into interacting with by means of a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This makes the email message to look as though it came from a trusted sender. Another common vulnerability is a poorly secured Remote Desktop Protocol port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every two years. Famous examples are Locky, and NotPetya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and CryptoWall are more elaborate and have wreaked more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery procedures allow your business to recover your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where ransomed data are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because new variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no certainty that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect the latest malware. If an attack does show up in an email, it is critical that your users have been taught to be aware of phishing techniques. Your last line of defense is a solid process for performing and keeping remote backups plus the deployment of reliable recovery platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Consultation in San Juan
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