Sherman Oaks Ransomware Filtering and Recovery Expertise
Ransomware Susceptibility Checkup
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and malicious states, posing a possibly lethal threat to businesses that are victimized. The latest variations of ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even selective restoration a challenging and expensive process. Novel variations of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Conti and Nephilim have made the headlines, replacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and NotPetya in prominence, sophistication, and destructive impact.
Most ransomware penetrations are caused by innocent-looking emails that have malicious links or attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by legacy signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. While user training and frontline identification are critical to defend against ransomware attacks, leading practices dictate that you assume some attacks will eventually succeed and that you implement a strong backup solution that allows you to restore files and services quickly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is an ultra-affordable service built around a remote discussion with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this assessment Progent will collaborate directly with your Sherman Oaks network management staff to gather critical data concerning your security setup and backup environment. Progent will use this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to follow best practices for configuring and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to block or recover from a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights vital areas related to crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Cybersecurity
- Correct allocation and use of admin accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB authorizations
- Proper firewall settings
- Safe RDP connections
- Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Protecting key 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 files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is required to send a specified amount of money (the ransom), typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. There is no guarantee that delivering the ransom will restore the damaged files or prevent its publication. Files can be encrypted or deleted throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A common ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, whereby the target is lured into interacting with by means of a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This causes the email to appear to come from a familiar sender. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by different strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every two years. Notorious attacks are Locky, and Petya. Recent high-profile variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Cerber are more elaborate and have wreaked more damage than earlier strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures enable your business to recover your ransomed files, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no certainty that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will block the latest malware. If an attack does appear in an email, it is important that your end users have learned to be aware of social engineering techniques. Your last line of defense is a solid scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups plus the deployment of reliable restoration tools.
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