Thousand Oaks Ransomware Prevention and Recovery Solutions
Ransomware Readiness Audit
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for the major cyber-crime organizations and bad-actor states, posing a potentially lethal threat to companies that are victimized. Current variations of crypto-ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even selective recovery a long and expensive exercise. Novel versions of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Snatch and Egregor have made the headlines, replacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and Petya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
Most ransomware penetrations are the result of innocent-seeming emails that have malicious links or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" attacks that elude the defenses of traditional signature-matching antivirus filters. While user training and frontline detection are important to defend your network against ransomware, leading practices demand that you expect that some malware will inevitably succeed and that you implement a strong backup mechanism that permits you to recover rapidly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report is an ultra-affordable service centered around an online discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert skilled in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will cooperate with your Thousand Oaks IT management staff to collect critical information concerning your cybersecurity posture and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to follow best practices for implementing and managing your cybersecurity and backup solution to prevent or recover from a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key issues related to crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Cybersecurity
- Proper use of administration accounts
- Correct NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Optimal firewall settings
- Safe RDP access
- Advice about AntiVirus filtering selection and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Backing up key servers including AD
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or deletes files so they are unusable or are publicized. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the target is asked to pay a specified amount of money, typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short period of time. It is not guaranteed that delivering the ransom will recover the damaged files or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or deleted throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware delivery package is tainted email, in which the user is tricked into interacting with by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a familiar source. Another common vulnerability is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker opened the new age 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. Famous examples are Locky, and NotPetya. Current headline threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Spora are more elaborate and have wreaked more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes enable you to recover your encrypted data, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where stolen documents are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware crop up daily, there is no certainty that traditional signature-matching anti-virus filters will detect a new attack. If an attack does show up in an email, it is critical that your end users have been taught to identify social engineering tricks. Your last line of defense is a solid scheme for performing and keeping remote backups plus the deployment of dependable restoration platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Susceptibility Assessment in Thousand Oaks
For pricing details and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Review can bolster your protection against crypto-ransomware in Thousand Oaks, phone Progent at
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