San Mateo Ransomware Filtering and Removal Expertise
Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and rogue governments, posing a potentially lethal risk to companies that fall victim. Modern variations of ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even selective restoration a long and costly exercise. New variations of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Snatch and Nephilim have emerged, replacing Locky, Spora, and NotPetya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
Most ransomware breaches are caused by innocent-seeming emails that include dangerous links or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" attacks that elude detection by traditional signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. Although user training and frontline identification are important to protect your network against ransomware attacks, best practices demand that you assume some attacks will eventually get through and that you put in place a strong backup solution that enables you to restore files and services quickly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is an ultra-affordable service centered around an online discussion with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware defense and repair. During this interview Progent will collaborate directly with your San Mateo IT management staff to collect pertinent information about your security configuration and backup environment. Progent will use this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to apply leading practices for implementing and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to block or clean up after a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights key areas related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Security
- Proper use of admin accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB permissions
- Proper firewall configuration
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) configuration
- Advice about AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Protecting required servers such as AD
- Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malicious software that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Ransomware often locks the target's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is required to send a specified ransom, typically in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short time window. There is no guarantee that delivering the ransom will recover the lost data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased across a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, in which the target is lured into responding to by a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This causes the email to appear to come from a trusted sender. Another common attack vector is an improperly secured RDP port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage 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 variants like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Cerber are more elaborate and have caused more havoc than older versions. Even if your backup processes allow your business to recover your ransomed data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus filters will detect a new malware. If an attack does show up in an email, it is critical that your users have been taught to be aware of social engineering tricks. Your ultimate defense is a solid scheme for scheduling and keeping remote backups and the deployment of dependable recovery tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Susceptibility Consultation in San Mateo
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