How to prevent Ransomware with Essential Firewall Practices?
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The document outlines essential firewall practices to prevent ransomware attacks, emphasizing the importance of reducing the attack surface by securing ports and utilizing VPNs. It also highlights the need for reliable data backups, safe browsing habits, and the use of updated anti-virus software to enhance protection against malware. Additionally, it mentions the services offered by VRS Technologies for firewall solutions.
How to prevent Ransomware with Essential Firewall Practices?
- 1. How to prevent ransomware with Essential Firewall practices
- 2. Ransomware is an illegal practice of forcing a company to pay a fee in return for having their data decrypted. Hackers use malware to encrypt a company’s file. Ransomware is usually delivered through an email attachment or accessing a dangerous website.
- 3. Essential Firewall Best Practices To Prevent Reduce the surface area of attack: Check all the ports and eliminate any open non-essential ports. Review and check all the port-forwarding rules. Using a VPN to access resources on the internal network from outside rather than port-forwarding.
- 4. IPS Protection Apply suitable IPS protection to the rules governing traffic to/from any Windows hosts on your network.
- 5. Minimize risk: The XG firewall and Synchronized security protect against threats moving laterally on the network. Segmenting the LANs into smaller subnets and assigning them to separate zones that are secured by the firewall helps in minimizing the risk.
- 6. Backing up data: A data backup helps to restore the data in case of a ransomware attack. It is beneficial to back up data either offline or on different systems in case of an attack. Backups should be regular – weekly or daily. It is necessary to monitor the backup process regularly for its proper functioning.
- 7. Safe Browsing: Employees and individuals should be cautious while opening unauthorized websites, emails from unknown resources, and open unauthenticated attachments. They should check the source of any downloads and files they receive.
- 8. Anti-virus software: A reliable Anti-virus and Anti-malware software should be installed and regularly updated. A good malware software scans attachments and URLs and notifies the user of the danger of opening the attachment or website link.
- 9. VRS Technologies offers reliable Firewall Solutions in Dubai to protect the entire network system and computers. Visit us: www.vrstech.com Call us at: +971-56-7029840. E-Mail us: Sales@vrstech.com