Santos Ransomware Protection and Recovery Services
Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup
Ransomware has been weaponized by the major cyber-crime organizations and rogue states, posing a possibly existential threat to businesses that are successfully attacked. Current strains of ransomware target everything, including backup, making even partial restoration a long and costly process. Novel variations of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, LockBit and Nephilim have emerged, replacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and Petya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
Most crypto-ransomware breaches are caused by innocuous-seeming emails that include malicious links or attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by traditional signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. Although user training and up-front identification are critical to protect your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices demand that you take for granted some malware will eventually succeed and that you prepare a solid backup mechanism that allows you to repair the damage quickly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is a low-cost service built around a remote interview with a Progent cybersecurity consultant experienced in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will collaborate with your Santos IT management staff to collect pertinent information concerning your cybersecurity configuration and backup processes. Progent will utilize this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to apply leading practices for configuring and administering your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights vital areas associated with crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Cybersecurity
- Effective allocation and use of admin accounts
- Correct NTFS and SMB permissions
- Proper firewall settings
- Safe RDP access
- Advice about AntiVirus tools selection and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Protecting key servers such as Active Directory
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or deletes files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the victim is asked to send a specified amount of money (the ransom), typically in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will restore the lost data or prevent its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased across a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the strong encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, whereby the victim is lured into responding to by means of a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This causes the email to appear to come from a trusted sender. Another popular attack vector is a poorly protected RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by the many versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every other year. Famous attacks include Locky, and Petya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Spora are more sophisticated and have wreaked more damage than older versions. Even if your backup processes enable your business to recover your ransomed files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where stolen documents are exposed to the public. Because new variants of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-based anti-virus filters will block the latest malware. If an attack does show up in an email, it is critical that your users have been taught to identify phishing tricks. Your last line of protection is a sound scheme for performing and keeping offsite backups plus the use of dependable restoration tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment in Santos
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