Scottsdale Ransomware Filtering and Remediation Solutions
Ransomware Susceptibility Report
Ransomware has been weaponized by the major cyber-crime organizations and rogue states, representing a potentially lethal risk to companies that fall victim. Current versions of ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even partial restoration a challenging and expensive exercise. Novel versions of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Snatch and Egregor have made the headlines, displacing Locky, Cerber, and CryptoWall in prominence, sophistication, and destructive impact.
Most crypto-ransomware penetrations come from innocent-seeming emails with dangerous links or attachments, and many are "zero-day" variants that elude detection by legacy signature-based antivirus filters. Although user education and frontline identification are important to protect against ransomware attacks, leading practices dictate that you take for granted some attacks will inevitably succeed and that you put in place a strong backup solution that allows you to recover rapidly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup is an ultra-affordable service centered around an online interview with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this assessment Progent will work directly with your Scottsdale IT management staff to collect critical data concerning your cybersecurity setup and backup processes. Progent will utilize this data to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to adhere to leading practices for implementing and administering your security and backup solution to block or recover from a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights vital issues related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Security
- Effective allocation and use of admin accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Optimal firewall setup
- Secure RDP access
- Advice about AntiVirus (AV) tools identification and configuration
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Protecting critical servers such as Active Directory
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or deletes files so they are unusable or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is asked to pay a specified amount of money (the ransom), typically in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is not guaranteed that delivering the ransom will restore 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 technologies used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware attack vector is tainted email, in which the user is lured into responding to by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email message to appear to come from a trusted sender. Another common attack vector is a poorly secured RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Famous examples are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Cerber are more elaborate and have caused more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup/recovery processes allow your business to recover your ransomed data, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where stolen documents are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because new variants of ransomware crop up every day, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-based anti-virus filters will block a new attack. If threat does appear in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to be aware of social engineering tricks. Your ultimate defense is a solid scheme for performing and keeping offsite backups and the deployment of dependable restoration tools.
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