Tucson Ransomware Prevention and Cleanup Expertise
Ransomware Susceptibility Consultation
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and rogue governments, representing a possibly existential risk to businesses that are successfully attacked. Current variations of crypto-ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even partial recovery a long and costly exercise. Novel strains of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, LockBit and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and CryptoWall in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.
90% of ransomware breaches come from innocuous-seeming emails that include malicious hyperlinks or attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" variants that elude detection by traditional signature-based antivirus tools. Although user training and up-front detection are important to defend your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices demand that you expect that some attacks will eventually succeed and that you implement a strong backup mechanism that permits you to repair the damage rapidly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is a low-cost service built around a remote interview with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware defense and repair. In the course of this assessment Progent will work directly with your Tucson IT managers to collect critical data about your cybersecurity profile and backup environment. Progent will use this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to follow best 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 focuses on key areas related to crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Security
- Effective use of admin accounts
- Assigning NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
- Optimal firewall setup
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol connections
- Recommend AntiVirus tools selection and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Protecting key servers including Active Directory
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malicious software that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To prevent the damage, the target is required to send a specified ransom, usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is never certain that delivering the ransom will recover the lost data or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A common ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, whereby the victim is tricked into interacting with by a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This causes the email message to look as though it came from a familiar source. Another common vulnerability is a poorly secured RDP port.
CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by the many strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every two years. Famous attacks are WannaCry, and Petya. Current high-profile variants like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Cerber are more elaborate and have wreaked more havoc than earlier strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures permit your business to restore your ransomed data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are exposed to the public. Because additional variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no certainty that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will block a new malware. If threat does appear in an email, it is critical that your users have learned to be aware of social engineering tricks. Your ultimate protection is a solid process for performing and keeping offsite backups and the deployment of dependable recovery tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Review in Tucson
For pricing information and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Review can bolster your defense against crypto-ransomware in Tucson, call Progent at
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