Virginia Beach Ransomware Prevention and Remediation Solutions
Ransomware Readiness Testing
Ransomware has been weaponized by cybercriminals and rogue governments, representing a possibly lethal risk to businesses that are breached. The latest variations of ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even partial recovery a complex and expensive process. New variations of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Snatch and Egregor have emerged, replacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and Petya in notoriety, sophistication, and destructiveness.
Most crypto-ransomware breaches are caused by innocuous-seeming emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" attacks that elude detection by traditional signature-matching antivirus filters. Although user training and frontline identification are critical to protect your network against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you assume some attacks will eventually get through and that you put in place a strong backup mechanism that enables you to restore files and services quickly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup is a low-cost service built around a remote discussion with a Progent cybersecurity consultant skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Virginia Beach network managers to gather critical data about your cybersecurity configuration and backup environment. Progent will use this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to follow best practices for configuring and managing your security and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights vital issues related to ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Effective use of admin accounts
- Appropriate NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB permissions
- Optimal firewall configuration
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol configuration
- Advice about AntiVirus (AV) filtering selection and configuration
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Backing up critical servers including AD
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or deletes files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is asked to send a specified amount of money, usually via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short period of time. It is not guaranteed that delivering the extortion price will restore the damaged files or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the strong encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware attack vector is booby-trapped email, in which the target is tricked into interacting with by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email to look as though it came from a familiar source. Another common vulnerability is a poorly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker opened the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by different versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Famous examples are WannaCry, and Petya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and CryptoWall are more complex and have wreaked more damage than older versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes permit you to restore your ransomed files, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will block the latest attack. If threat does appear in an email, it is critical that your users have been taught to identify phishing techniques. Your ultimate defense is a solid scheme for scheduling and keeping remote backups plus the use of dependable restoration platforms.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Checkup in Virginia Beach
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