West Palm Beach Ransomware Defense and Remediation Services
Ransomware Susceptibility Audit
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and rogue governments, posing a potentially lethal threat to businesses that are successfully attacked. Current versions of ransomware target everything, including backup, making even selective recovery a challenging and costly process. New variations of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Snatch and Nephilim have emerged, displacing WannaCry, Spora, and NotPetya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
Most ransomware breaches are caused by innocent-seeming emails that have malicious hyperlinks or attachments, and many are "zero-day" variants that can escape the defenses of traditional signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. While user training and frontline detection are important to defend against ransomware, leading practices demand that you expect that some malware will inevitably succeed and that you deploy a strong backup mechanism that enables you to restore files and services rapidly with little if any damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report is a low-cost service built around a remote discussion with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. During this interview Progent will cooperate with your West Palm Beach network management staff to gather critical information about your security profile and backup environment. Progent will utilize this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to adhere to best practices for implementing and administering your security and backup solution to block or recover from a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on vital areas related to ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review addresses:
Cybersecurity
- Correct use of administration accounts
- Assigning NTFS and SMB authorizations
- Proper firewall setup
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol access
- Recommend AntiVirus (AV) tools selection and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Protecting critical servers including AD
- Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the target is required to pay a specified amount of money, usually via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will recover the lost files or prevent its publication. Files can be altered or erased throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot solve the military-grade encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, whereby the target is lured into interacting with by means of a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This makes the email message to appear to come from a familiar sender. Another popular attack vector is an improperly protected RDP port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by different strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Notorious examples include WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent headline variants like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Spora are more elaborate and have caused more damage than older versions. Even if your backup procedures enable your business to recover your encrypted files, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where stolen data are made public. Because additional versions of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will block the latest malware. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your end users have been taught to identify phishing tricks. Your last line of defense is a solid scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups plus the deployment of reliable restoration tools.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Consultation in West Palm Beach
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