Springfield Ransomware Filtering and Recovery Consulting
Ransomware Readiness Evaluation
Ransomware has been weaponized by the major cyber-crime organizations and rogue states, posing a possibly existential threat to businesses that are breached. The latest versions of ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even selective restoration a challenging and expensive exercise. Novel variations of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Conti and Egregor have emerged, replacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and CryptoWall in prominence, sophistication, and destructive impact.
90% of ransomware penetrations are the result of innocuous-seeming emails that include dangerous links or attachments, and many are "zero-day" attacks that elude detection by traditional signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. While user education and frontline detection are important to defend against ransomware, best practices demand that you assume some malware will inevitably get through and that you put in place a strong backup mechanism that permits you to recover quickly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is an ultra-affordable service built around a remote discussion with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware protection and repair. During this assessment Progent will cooperate with your Springfield network managers to collect critical information about your cybersecurity profile and backup processes. Progent will use this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to follow best practices for configuring and administering your cybersecurity and backup solution to prevent or recover from a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights vital issues related to ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Security
- Effective use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB authorizations
- Optimal firewall setup
- Secure RDP configuration
- Guidance for AntiVirus tools selection and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Protecting key servers including Active Directory
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malicious software that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To avoid the damage, the victim is required to send a certain ransom, typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will recover the lost files or prevent its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased across a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware attack vector is tainted email, in which the victim is tricked into interacting with by means of a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This makes the email message to appear to come from a trusted source. Another common vulnerability is an improperly secured RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every other year. Notorious examples include Locky, and Petya. Current headline variants like Ryuk, Maze and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have caused more havoc than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes allow your business to recover your encrypted data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public. Because new versions of ransomware crop up daily, there is no certainty that conventional signature-based anti-virus filters will detect the latest attack. If threat does appear in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to identify social engineering techniques. Your last line of protection is a sound scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups plus the deployment of reliable recovery tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Susceptibility Review in Springfield
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