Santa Rosa Ransomware Defense and Restoration Consulting
Ransomware Readiness Consultation
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for the major cyber-crime organizations and malicious governments, posing a possibly lethal threat to businesses that are victimized. The latest strains of crypto-ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even selective restoration a long and expensive exercise. New versions of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Conti and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing WannaCry, Cerber, and Petya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
90% of ransomware penetrations are the result of innocent-looking emails with malicious hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. While user education and frontline identification are important to protect your network against ransomware, best practices dictate that you expect that some malware will inevitably succeed and that you put in place a strong backup mechanism that permits you to recover rapidly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is an ultra-affordable service built around a remote interview with a Progent cybersecurity expert skilled in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this assessment Progent will collaborate with your Santa Rosa IT management staff to collect critical information concerning your security configuration and backup processes. Progent will utilize this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to adhere to leading practices for implementing and administering your security and backup systems to prevent or recover from a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights vital issues related to crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Cybersecurity
- Effective allocation and use of administration accounts
- Correct NTFS and SMB authorizations
- Optimal firewall settings
- Safe RDP configuration
- Recommend AntiVirus tools identification and deployment
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Backing up key servers including Active Directory
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malicious software that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they are unusable or are publicized. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the victim is asked to pay a specified amount of money (the ransom), usually via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short period of time. 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 throughout a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, in which the target is lured into interacting with by means of a social engineering exploit 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 secured Remote Desktop Protocol port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by the many versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every other year. Famous examples are WannaCry, and Petya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Cerber are more sophisticated and have wreaked more havoc than older versions. Even if your backup/recovery procedures allow your business to recover your encrypted files, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware crop up daily, there is no certainty that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will block the latest malware. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your users have been taught to identify social engineering tricks. Your last line of defense is a solid scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups and the deployment of reliable restoration tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Assessment in Santa Rosa
For pricing information and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report can enhance your defense against crypto-ransomware in Santa Rosa, phone Progent at
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