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Tips to Address Ransomware Threats

Tips to Address Ransomware Threats

Ransomware attacks are increasing. Attackers do reconnaissance to target specific organizations and may scan the environment for weeks at a time, mapping details and circumventing security controls. Reconnaissance time gives bad actors the opportunity to drop the ransomware payload and to figure out ways to exfiltrate your data and then hold that information hostage as well. Organizations need comprehensive prevention, detection, response, and remediation strategies in place to minimize the risk of attack and so that critical systems can be restored as quickly as possible if necessary.

Prevention

Some of the tools that can help prevent Ransomware attacks include:

  1. Advance Endpoint Security:
    including Endpoint Detection and Response
  2. Restricted Access
    to applications and resources, based on policy
  3. Anti-Phishing Solution
    Prevent Spear Phishing Attacks and Social Engineering Attacks
  4. Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Solutions
     analyze event data in real time, allowing for early discovery of data breaches and targeted attacks
Prevention

Detection and Response

Leverage a 24×7 security operations center (SOC) with focus on:

  1. Monitoring alerts, suspicious threats and event classification
  2. Review of potential attacks in progress
  3. Provide guidance and next steps to incident responders, which includes proactive threat hunting including searching for indicators of compromise (IOCs), identifying potential vulnerabilities and unauthorized programs, and retrieving and analyzing forensic artifacts
  4. Once the event is analyzed, an incident notification will explain the threat and recommendations for review including steps for remediation
Detection

Remediation and Control

Leverage a 24X7 SOC to limit the impact of Malware

  1. Roll back malicious changes
  2. Stop malicious activity and lateral movement by isolating devices
  3. Prevent ransomware encryption, file, and registry tampering
  4. Quarantine devices and terminate any unknown/unsafe processes
Remediation

Ransomware is arguably the biggest threat to security and data protection facing SMB businesses today. An effective security strategy requires proper planning and the use of sophisticated tools that can both detect threats and provide the platform and service to stop them. An effective security defense leverages a layered approach using a variety of tools including XDR, SIEM, EDR, anti-phishing combined with a SOC team delivering 24/7 monitoring and incident response. Flexis has researched the best of breed tools so you don’t have to and our 24/7 SOC allows you to deliver an effective and affordable security solution for your business.

Flexis provides NOC, SOC, and Helpdesk services to businesses to help them augment their internal teams and protect their business in the most flexible, cost-effective and secure manner possible.