Akron Ransomware Prevention and Recovery Services

Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for the major cyber-crime organizations and malicious governments, posing a possibly lethal threat to businesses that fall victim. Modern versions of crypto-ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even selective restoration a long and expensive exercise. New versions of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Conti and Nephilim have emerged, displacing Locky, Cerber, and NotPetya in prominence, sophistication, and destructiveness.

Most ransomware penetrations come from innocuous-looking emails that include malicious links or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" strains that elude detection by traditional signature-based antivirus filters. Although user education and up-front identification are important to defend against ransomware, leading practices demand that you take for granted some attacks will eventually succeed and that you prepare a solid backup mechanism that allows you to repair the damage quickly with minimal losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote interview with a Progent security consultant experienced in ransomware protection and recovery. During this assessment Progent will work directly with your Akron network managers to collect pertinent information about your cybersecurity configuration and backup processes. Progent will use this data to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to adhere to leading practices for implementing and managing your security and backup systems to block or clean up after a crypto-ransomware assault.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights key issues related to crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review addresses:

Security

• Correct allocation and use of administration accounts
• Appropriate NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB permissions
• Optimal firewall configuration
• Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
• Advice about AntiVirus filtering identification and deployment

• Split permission architecture for backup integrity
• Backing up critical servers such as Active Directory
• Offsite backups including cloud backup to Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or steals files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is required to send a specified ransom, typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short period of time. It is not guaranteed that delivering the ransom will recover the lost data or prevent 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 delivery package is spoofed email, in which the victim is lured into responding to by means of a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a familiar source. Another popular vulnerability is a poorly secured RDP port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every other year. Famous attacks include WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and TeslaCrypt are more complex and have wreaked more havoc than older versions. Even if your backup processes enable you to restore your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed data are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because new variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no certainty that traditional signature-based anti-virus tools will block a new attack. If threat does appear in an email, it is important that your users have learned to be aware of phishing tricks. Your last line of defense is a solid process for scheduling and keeping offsite backups plus the deployment of dependable recovery platforms.

Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Testing in Akron
For pricing details and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Testing can enhance your defense against ransomware in Akron, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.