Albuquerque Ransomware Protection and Removal Services

Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cybercriminals and rogue governments, posing a potentially existential threat to companies that fall victim. Modern strains of crypto-ransomware target everything, including backup, making even selective restoration a long and expensive process. New variations of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Conti and Nephilim have made the headlines, replacing WannaCry, Spora, and NotPetya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.

90% of crypto-ransomware penetrations come from innocuous-looking emails that include malicious hyperlinks or attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by legacy signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. Although user education and frontline identification are critical to defend your network against ransomware, best practices dictate that you assume some attacks will eventually get through and that you deploy a solid backup mechanism that permits you to recover rapidly with minimal losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup is a low-cost service built around an online discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert skilled in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this assessment Progent will collaborate directly with your Albuquerque network managers to collect pertinent information concerning your cybersecurity profile and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to follow best practices for configuring and managing your cybersecurity and backup solution to prevent or recover from a ransomware attack.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on key issues related to crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report covers:

Security

• Correct allocation and use of admin accounts
• Assigning NTFS and SMB authorizations
• Optimal firewall setup
• Safe RDP access
• Guidance for AntiVirus tools selection and configuration

• Split permission architecture for backup protection
• Protecting required servers including AD
• Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or steals files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Ransomware often locks the target's computer. To avoid the damage, the victim is asked to pay a specified amount of money, usually via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief time window. There is no guarantee that paying the ransom will restore the damaged files or prevent its publication. Files can be altered or erased throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A common ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, in which the user 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 trusted source. Another common attack vector is a poorly secured RDP port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by the many strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every two years. Notorious attacks are Locky, and Petya. Current headline threats like Ryuk, Maze and TeslaCrypt are more sophisticated and have caused more havoc than older versions. Even if your backup procedures permit you to restore your ransomed files, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-based anti-virus filters will detect a new attack. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your end users have learned to be aware of phishing tricks. Your ultimate protection is a sound scheme for scheduling and keeping offsite backups and the deployment of reliable recovery tools.

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