Stockton Ransomware Protection and Removal Consulting
Ransomware Preparedness Evaluation
Ransomware has been weaponized by cybercriminals and rogue governments, posing a potentially lethal threat to businesses that are breached. Current variations of ransomware target everything, including backup, making even partial restoration a complex and expensive process. Novel variations of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Conti and Nephilim have made the headlines, replacing WannaCry, Spora, and Petya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
Most crypto-ransomware breaches are the result of innocuous-seeming emails that include malicious links or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" attacks that elude the defenses of legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. While user training and up-front detection are important to protect against ransomware attacks, best practices demand that you take for granted some attacks will eventually get through and that you prepare a solid backup mechanism that permits you to recover quickly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote interview with a Progent security expert experienced in ransomware protection and repair. During this assessment Progent will cooperate with your Stockton IT managers to gather pertinent information about your cybersecurity configuration and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to follow best practices for implementing and managing your cybersecurity and backup solution to block or recover from a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights vital issues associated with crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Security
- Proper allocation and use of admin accounts
- Assigning NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Optimal firewall configuration
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access
- Advice about AntiVirus filtering identification and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Protecting critical servers including Active Directory
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the target is required to pay a specified amount of money, usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short period of time. It is never certain that paying the extortion price will recover the lost files or avoid its publication. Files can be altered or erased throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware attack vector is booby-trapped email, in which the victim is lured into interacting with by means of a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This causes the email to look as though it came from a familiar sender. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by the many versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every two years. Famous attacks include Locky, and Petya. Recent headline variants like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and CryptoWall are more sophisticated and have caused more havoc than earlier strains. Even if your backup/recovery processes allow your business to recover your encrypted data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new variants of ransomware crop up every day, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-based anti-virus filters will block a new malware. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your users have learned to be aware of phishing techniques. Your last line of protection is a sound scheme for performing and retaining offsite backups and the deployment of dependable recovery platforms.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Readiness Evaluation in Stockton
For pricing information and to learn more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Evaluation can bolster your defense against crypto-ransomware in Stockton, phone Progent at
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