Stamford Ransomware Protection and Remediation Consulting
Ransomware Vulnerability Report
Ransomware has been weaponized by cyber extortionists and malicious governments, representing a possibly existential threat to companies that are successfully attacked. Current variations of ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even partial restoration a challenging and costly exercise. Novel variations of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Conti and Nephilim have emerged, displacing WannaCry, Spora, and NotPetya in notoriety, sophistication, and destructiveness.
90% of ransomware penetrations come from innocuous-seeming emails that have dangerous links or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by traditional signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. Although user training and frontline identification are important to protect against ransomware attacks, best practices demand that you expect that some attacks will inevitably succeed and that you implement a solid backup mechanism that enables you to recover quickly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report is an ultra-affordable service built around a remote interview with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Stamford IT management staff to collect critical information about your cybersecurity posture and backup processes. Progent will utilize this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to adhere to leading practices for implementing and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or recover from a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights vital issues associated with crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Security
- Correct use of admin accounts
- Correct NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Proper firewall settings
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol configuration
- Advice about AntiVirus tools selection and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Backing up key servers including Active Directory
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts or steals files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware often locks the target's computer. To avoid the carnage, the target is asked to send a certain ransom, typically in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief time window. There is no guarantee that paying the extortion price will recover the damaged data or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the military-grade encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, in which the victim is tricked into interacting with by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email message to appear to come from a trusted source. Another popular attack vector is a poorly protected RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every other year. Famous examples include Locky, and Petya. Recent high-profile variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Spora are more elaborate and have wreaked more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures allow you to recover your encrypted data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus filters will block the latest attack. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your users have been taught to be aware of social engineering tricks. Your last line of protection is a sound scheme for scheduling and keeping offsite backups plus the deployment of reliable restoration tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Susceptibility Report in Stamford
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