Albany Ransomware Protection and Removal Services

Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for the major cyber-crime organizations and rogue states, posing a potentially existential risk to businesses that are victimized. The latest variations of ransomware go after everything, including backup, making even partial recovery a challenging and expensive process. Novel variations of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, LockBit and Nephilim have emerged, replacing WannaCry, Cerber, and NotPetya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.

90% of ransomware infections come from innocent-seeming emails that include malicious links or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" variants that elude the defenses of legacy signature-matching antivirus filters. Although user education and up-front detection are important to protect your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices demand that you take for granted some attacks will eventually get through and that you put in place a solid backup solution that enables you to repair the damage rapidly with minimal losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is a low-cost service built around an online interview with a Progent cybersecurity expert skilled in ransomware defense and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will work with your Albany IT management staff to gather critical data concerning your security posture and backup processes. Progent will use this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to apply leading practices for configuring and managing your security and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a ransomware assault.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights key areas related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review covers:

Security

• Effective allocation and use of admin accounts
• Correct NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB permissions
• Optimal firewall settings
• Secure RDP connections
• Advice about AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and deployment

• Split permission architecture for backup integrity
• Protecting critical servers such as Active Directory
• Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft 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 publicized. Ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the victim is required to send a specified amount of money (the ransom), usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is never certain that delivering the extortion price will recover the damaged data or prevent its publication. Files can be altered or erased throughout a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the military-grade encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A common ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, whereby the victim is tricked into responding to by means of a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This causes the email message to look as though it came from a familiar sender. Another common vulnerability is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every other year. Notorious attacks include Locky, and Petya. Current headline threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have caused more damage than earlier strains. Even if your backup procedures allow your business to recover your encrypted files, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where stolen data are made public. Because new variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no certainty that traditional signature-matching anti-virus filters will detect a new attack. If an attack does show up in an email, it is important that your users have been taught to be aware of social engineering techniques. Your last line of defense is a solid process for scheduling and retaining remote backups and the deployment of dependable recovery platforms.

Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Readiness Report in Albany
For pricing information and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Report can bolster your defense against ransomware in Albany, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.