Adelaide Ransomware Filtering and Cleanup Expertise

Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and rogue governments, posing a potentially existential risk to businesses that are victimized. Modern versions of crypto-ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even selective restoration a complex and costly exercise. Novel versions of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Conti and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing WannaCry, Cerber, and CryptoWall in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructive impact.

90% of crypto-ransomware breaches are caused by innocent-seeming emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" attacks that elude the defenses of legacy signature-based antivirus tools. Although user training and up-front detection are important to defend against ransomware, leading practices demand that you assume some attacks will eventually get through and that you implement a solid backup mechanism that enables you to repair the damage quickly with minimal damage.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is a low-cost service centered around an online discussion with a Progent cybersecurity consultant skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. During this interview Progent will cooperate with your Adelaide IT managers to collect pertinent data concerning your cybersecurity configuration and backup environment. Progent will use this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to adhere to leading practices for configuring and administering your cybersecurity and backup solution to prevent or recover from a ransomware assault.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on key issues associated with ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review covers:

Cybersecurity

• Correct allocation and use of administration accounts
• Appropriate NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
• Proper firewall configuration
• Secure RDP connections
• Advice about AntiVirus tools identification and deployment

• Split permission architecture for backup protection
• Protecting required servers such as AD
• Offsite backups with cloud backup to Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the target's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is asked to pay a specified amount of money, typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short period of time. It is never certain that delivering the extortion price will restore the lost files or avoid its publication. Files can be altered or erased throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A common ransomware attack vector is booby-trapped email, in which the victim is lured into responding to by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email message to appear to come from a trusted sender. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by the many versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Famous attacks are Locky, and Petya. Current headline threats like Ryuk, Maze and TeslaCrypt are more complex and have wreaked more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup procedures permit you to recover your encrypted data, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware crop up every day, there is no certainty that conventional signature-based anti-virus tools will block the latest malware. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your users have learned to be aware of social engineering techniques. Your last line of protection is a solid process for performing and keeping offsite backups and the deployment of dependable recovery tools.

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