St. Louis Ransomware Protection and Restoration Consulting
Ransomware Susceptibility Consultation
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cybercriminals and rogue governments, representing a potentially lethal threat to businesses that fall victim. The latest versions of crypto-ransomware target everything, including backup, making even partial restoration a long and costly exercise. Novel variations of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Conti and Nephilim have emerged, replacing Locky, Spora, and NotPetya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
90% of crypto-ransomware breaches come from innocuous-seeming emails that have malicious links or attachments, and many are "zero-day" strains that can escape the defenses of traditional signature-matching antivirus (AV) tools. While user training and frontline detection are critical to protect your network against ransomware attacks, best practices demand that you take for granted some attacks will inevitably succeed and that you prepare a solid backup solution that allows you to recover rapidly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is an ultra-affordable service built around a remote interview with a Progent cybersecurity expert skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. During this interview Progent will collaborate with your St. Louis IT managers to gather pertinent data concerning your cybersecurity profile and backup processes. Progent will utilize this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to adhere to leading practices for configuring and managing your security and backup solution to block or recover from a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights vital issues related to crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Correct allocation and use of administration accounts
- Appropriate NTFS and SMB permissions
- Optimal firewall setup
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol connections
- Recommend AntiVirus (AV) tools identification and configuration
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Backing up required servers including AD
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts or deletes files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Ransomware often locks the target's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim is required to send a certain amount of money, typically in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short time window. There is no guarantee that paying the extortion price will recover the damaged data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or deleted throughout a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, in which the user is tricked into interacting with by means of a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This causes the email message to look as though it came from a familiar source. Another common attack vector is a poorly protected RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by the many versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every other year. Famous attacks include Locky, and Petya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have wreaked more havoc than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery procedures allow your business to recover your ransomed files, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where ransomed data are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new variants of ransomware are launched daily, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-based anti-virus filters will detect a new malware. If an attack does appear in an email, it is important that your users have been taught to be aware of phishing tricks. Your ultimate defense is a sound process for performing and keeping offsite backups plus the deployment of dependable recovery tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Susceptibility Assessment in St. Louis
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