Uniondale Ransomware Protection and Removal Solutions
Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for the major cyber-crime organizations and bad-actor governments, posing a potentially existential risk to companies that are successfully attacked. Modern strains of ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even selective restoration a long and expensive process. Novel versions of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, LockBit and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing Locky, Spora, and CryptoWall in notoriety, sophistication, and destructive impact.
90% of crypto-ransomware penetrations are caused by innocuous-seeming emails that include dangerous links or file attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus tools. While user education and up-front identification are important to defend your network against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you expect that some attacks will inevitably succeed and that you put in place a solid backup mechanism that allows you to repair the damage rapidly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is a low-cost service built around a remote interview with a Progent security expert skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. During this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Uniondale IT managers to gather critical data concerning your cybersecurity posture and backup processes. Progent will utilize this data to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to follow leading practices for configuring and administering your security and backup systems to block or clean up after a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights vital areas related to crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Cybersecurity
- Effective allocation and use of admin accounts
- Correct NTFS and SMB authorizations
- Optimal firewall settings
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol access
- Advice about AntiVirus filtering identification and deployment
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Backing up required servers including AD
- Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malicious software that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the victim is asked to pay a specified ransom, typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is not guaranteed that paying the extortion price will restore the lost files or avoid its publication. Files can be altered or deleted throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware attack vector is tainted email, whereby the target is tricked into interacting with by a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This makes the email to look as though it came from a trusted sender. Another common attack vector is a poorly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every other year. Notorious examples include WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent high-profile variants like Ryuk, Maze and Spora are more complex and have wreaked more havoc than earlier strains. Even if your backup processes permit your business to recover your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public. Because new variants of ransomware crop up every day, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-based anti-virus tools will block a new malware. If threat does appear in an email, it is critical that your end users have been taught to identify social engineering techniques. Your last line of defense is a solid scheme for scheduling and retaining offsite backups plus the deployment of dependable restoration platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Report in Uniondale
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