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Ransomware Susceptibility Report
Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and malicious governments, representing a potentially lethal risk to businesses that fall victim. The latest strains of ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even selective restoration a challenging and costly process. Novel variations of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, LockBit and Egregor have made the headlines, replacing Locky, Spora, and CryptoWall in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
90% of crypto-ransomware breaches are the result of innocuous-seeming emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" attacks that can escape the defenses of legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. Although user education and frontline detection are critical to defend against ransomware attacks, best practices demand that you expect that some attacks will eventually succeed and that you implement a solid backup mechanism that enables you to repair the damage quickly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is a low-cost service built around an online interview with a Progent security expert experienced in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this assessment Progent will cooperate with your Santa Cruz network managers to collect critical data about your security posture and backup processes. Progent will use this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to adhere to leading practices for implementing and administering your cybersecurity and backup systems to block or clean up after a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key issues associated with ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Security
- Proper use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB permissions
- Optimal firewall setup
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access
- Recommend AntiVirus (AV) tools selection and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Protecting required servers such as AD
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware 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 avoid the damage, the victim is required to send a certain amount of money (the ransom), usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is not guaranteed that paying the extortion price will recover the lost files or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or erased across a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, whereby the victim is tricked into responding to 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 source. Another popular vulnerability is a poorly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every two years. Notorious examples include Locky, and Petya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, Maze and TeslaCrypt are more complex and have caused more damage than older versions. Even if your backup procedures enable your business to recover your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware are launched daily, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus filters will block a new malware. If an attack does show up in an email, it is important that your users have learned to identify phishing techniques. Your last line of defense is a sound process for performing and retaining remote backups and the deployment of reliable recovery platforms.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup in Santa Cruz
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