Adelaide Ransomware Defense and Cleanup Expertise

Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for the major cyber-crime organizations and malicious governments, representing a potentially existential risk to companies that are breached. Modern variations of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even partial recovery a long and costly process. Novel strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Conti and Egregor have emerged, displacing Locky, Spora, and Petya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.

Most crypto-ransomware breaches are caused by innocuous-seeming emails that include dangerous links or file attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" variants that can escape the defenses of traditional signature-matching antivirus filters. Although user education and frontline identification are important to protect against ransomware, best practices dictate that you assume some malware will eventually get through and that you implement a strong backup mechanism that allows you to recover quickly with minimal damage.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent security expert skilled in ransomware defense and recovery. During this interview Progent will cooperate with your Adelaide IT management staff to gather pertinent data concerning your cybersecurity profile and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to adhere to leading practices for configuring and administering your security and backup solution to prevent or recover from a ransomware assault.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights vital areas associated with crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review addresses:

Security

• Proper allocation and use of administration accounts
• Appropriate NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
• Optimal firewall settings
• Secure Remote Desktop Protocol access
• Recommend AntiVirus tools identification and deployment

• Split permission architecture for backup integrity
• Protecting key servers including Active Directory
• Offsite backups with cloud backup to Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malicious software that encrypts or steals files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the carnage, the target is asked to send a specified amount of money (the ransom), usually via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short period of time. There is no guarantee that delivering the ransom will recover the lost data 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 technique known as spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a familiar source. Another common attack vector is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by the many versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every other year. Notorious examples are WannaCry, and Petya. Recent headline variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Spora are more complex and have wreaked more damage than older strains. Even if your backup processes enable you to restore your encrypted files, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where ransomed data are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware crop up daily, there is no certainty that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect the latest attack. If an attack does appear in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to identify social engineering tricks. Your last line of protection is a sound process for scheduling and retaining remote backups and the use of dependable restoration tools.

Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Review in Adelaide
For pricing details and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Testing can bolster your defense against ransomware in Adelaide, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.