Yonkers Ransomware Protection and Restoration Expertise
Ransomware Preparedness Assessment
Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and rogue governments, posing a possibly lethal threat to companies that fall victim. Current versions of crypto-ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even partial recovery a long and expensive exercise. Novel versions of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Snatch and Egregor have made the headlines, replacing Locky, Spora, and NotPetya in prominence, sophistication, and destructive impact.
90% of crypto-ransomware infections come from innocuous-seeming emails with malicious hyperlinks or file attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" strains that elude the defenses of legacy signature-matching antivirus filters. While user education and up-front detection are critical to protect your network against ransomware, leading practices demand that you assume some attacks will eventually succeed and that you implement a strong backup mechanism that enables you to repair the damage quickly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is a low-cost service centered around an online discussion with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware defense and repair. During this interview Progent will cooperate with your Yonkers IT managers to gather critical information about your security setup and backup processes. Progent will use this data to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to apply leading practices for configuring and administering your cybersecurity and backup solution to block or clean up after a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights vital issues related to crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Cybersecurity
- Proper use of admin accounts
- Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB permissions
- Proper firewall settings
- Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
- Recommend AntiVirus filtering selection and deployment
- Split permission model for backup protection
- Backing up required servers including Active Directory
- Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or steals files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To avoid the damage, the victim is asked to pay a certain ransom, typically in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief time window. There is no guarantee that delivering the ransom will restore the damaged files or prevent its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased across 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 tainted email, whereby the user is lured into responding to by a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a trusted source. Another common vulnerability is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every other year. Famous examples include Locky, and Petya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and CryptoWall are more elaborate and have wreaked more damage than older versions. Even if your backup/recovery procedures permit you to recover your ransomed data, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where stolen data are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware are launched daily, there is no certainty that conventional signature-matching anti-virus filters will detect the latest malware. If threat does appear in an email, it is important that your users have been taught to identify social engineering techniques. Your last line of defense is a sound scheme for performing and keeping offsite backups plus the use of dependable recovery tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Report in Yonkers
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