Ransomware has been weaponized by cybercriminals and rogue governments, representing a potentially existential threat to businesses that are successfully attacked. The latest variations of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even partial recovery a challenging and costly exercise. New variations of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, LockBit and Egregor have emerged, replacing Locky, Spora, and NotPetya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.
Most ransomware breaches come from innocent-looking emails that include malicious hyperlinks or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by traditional signature-based antivirus filters. Although user education and up-front detection are important to defend your network against ransomware, leading practices demand that you assume some attacks will eventually get through and that you prepare a solid backup mechanism that allows you to repair the damage quickly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is a low-cost service built around a remote discussion with a Progent cybersecurity consultant experienced in ransomware defense and recovery. During this interview Progent will collaborate with your Irving IT management staff to collect critical information about your security setup and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to adhere to leading practices for implementing and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to block or recover from a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key issues related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report addresses:
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About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or deletes files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim is required to pay a specified amount of money (the ransom), usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is never certain that delivering the ransom will restore the damaged data or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A common ransomware delivery package is tainted email, whereby the user is lured into interacting with by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email message to look as though it came from a trusted sender. Another common attack vector is a poorly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by different versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every other year. Notorious examples include WannaCry, and Petya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, Maze and Cerber are more complex and have caused more damage than older strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures enable your business to restore your ransomed data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed data are made public. Because additional versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no certainty that conventional signature-matching anti-virus filters will block a new attack. If threat does show up in an email, it is critical that your end users have been taught to identify social engineering tricks. Your last line of protection is a solid scheme for scheduling and keeping remote backups plus the deployment of reliable recovery tools.
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