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Ransomware Vulnerability Report
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and malicious governments, posing a possibly lethal threat to companies that are breached. Current strains of ransomware target everything, including backup, making even selective restoration a complex and costly process. Novel strains of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, LockBit and Nephilim have made the headlines, replacing Locky, Spora, and CryptoWall in prominence, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
Most ransomware infections come from innocuous-looking emails that have malicious links or attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" variants that elude the defenses of legacy signature-based antivirus filters. Although user training and frontline detection are important to protect your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices demand that you take for granted some malware will eventually get through and that you deploy a strong backup solution that allows you to repair the damage quickly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is an ultra-affordable service built around an online interview with a Progent security expert experienced in ransomware protection and repair. During this assessment Progent will work with your Seattle network managers to gather pertinent data about your cybersecurity setup and backup processes. Progent will use this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to apply best practices for implementing and administering your cybersecurity and backup solution to block or clean up after a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on vital areas associated with ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Proper allocation and use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB permissions
- Optimal firewall configuration
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
- Guidance for AntiVirus filtering identification and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Backing up required servers such as Active Directory
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malicious software that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim is asked to pay a specified amount of money (the ransom), usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is never certain that delivering the extortion price will restore the damaged data or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or deleted across a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, whereby the user is lured into interacting with by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email to look as though it came from a trusted sender. Another common attack vector is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every other year. Notorious examples are WannaCry, and Petya. Current headline threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and CryptoWall are more complex and have caused more havoc than earlier strains. Even if your backup procedures allow you to restore your encrypted files, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional variants of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-based 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 phishing tricks. Your last line of protection is a sound process for scheduling and keeping remote backups plus the deployment of dependable restoration tools.
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