Vitória Ransomware Filtering and Cleanup Services
Ransomware Readiness Review
Ransomware has been weaponized by cyber extortionists and malicious governments, posing a potentially existential risk to companies that are victimized. Current versions of crypto-ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even partial restoration a challenging and costly process. Novel variations of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Snatch and Egregor have made the headlines, displacing Locky, Spora, and CryptoWall in notoriety, sophistication, and destructiveness.
90% of ransomware breaches are the result of innocuous-seeming emails that include malicious links or attachments, and many are "zero-day" strains that can escape the defenses of traditional signature-matching antivirus filters. While user education and frontline detection are critical to protect against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you expect that some attacks will inevitably get through and that you implement a solid backup solution that enables you to repair the damage quickly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is an ultra-affordable service built around a remote interview with a Progent cybersecurity consultant skilled in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Vitória network managers to gather pertinent information concerning your security posture and backup processes. Progent will utilize this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to follow leading practices for implementing and administering your security and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights vital issues associated with crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Security
- Proper allocation and use of admin accounts
- Correct NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB permissions
- Optimal firewall setup
- Safe RDP connections
- Recommend AntiVirus filtering selection and deployment
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Protecting required servers such as AD
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malicious software that encrypts or steals files so they are unusable or are publicized. Ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is asked to send a certain amount of money, usually via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will restore the damaged data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or deleted across a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot solve the military-grade encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware attack vector is booby-trapped email, whereby the user is lured 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 trusted sender. Another popular attack vector is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by the many strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Notorious examples include WannaCry, and Petya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have wreaked more damage than earlier strains. Even if your backup processes permit your business to recover your encrypted files, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where ransomed documents are exposed to the public. Because new variants of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will block a new malware. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your users have been taught to identify social engineering techniques. Your last line of protection is a sound scheme for performing and keeping remote backups plus the deployment of dependable restoration tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Audit in Vitória
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