Albuquerque Ransomware Prevention and Restoration Consulting

Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for the major cyber-crime organizations and malicious governments, posing a potentially existential threat to businesses that are breached. Modern strains of ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even selective recovery a challenging and costly exercise. Novel strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Conti and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and Petya in notoriety, sophistication, and destructive impact.

Most crypto-ransomware infections are caused by innocuous-seeming emails that have malicious links or attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" attacks that can escape the defenses of traditional signature-based antivirus tools. Although user education and up-front identification are important to protect your network against ransomware, leading practices demand that you assume some attacks will inevitably succeed and that you prepare a solid backup solution that enables you to restore files and services quickly with little if any damage.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is an ultra-affordable service built around a remote interview with a Progent cybersecurity expert skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will collaborate with your Albuquerque IT management staff to collect pertinent information concerning your security setup and backup environment. Progent will utilize this data to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to apply best practices for configuring and managing your cybersecurity and backup solution to block or recover from a crypto-ransomware attack.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on vital issues associated with crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report addresses:

Security

• Effective allocation and use of admin accounts
• Assigning NTFS and SMB authorizations
• Proper firewall settings
• Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
• Recommend AntiVirus filtering identification and configuration

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

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they are unusable or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware often locks the target's computer. To avoid the damage, the victim is required to pay a certain ransom, usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is never certain that delivering the extortion price will restore the lost data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, whereby the victim is tricked into interacting with by a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This causes the email message to appear to come from a familiar source. Another common vulnerability is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.

CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by different versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every two years. Notorious examples include WannaCry, and Petya. Recent headline variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and CryptoWall are more complex and have caused more havoc than earlier strains. Even if your backup procedures allow your business to recover your encrypted data, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where ransomed data are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional variants of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-based anti-virus tools will block a new malware. If an attack does show up in an email, it is important that your users have learned to identify social engineering techniques. Your last line of defense is a solid process for scheduling and retaining remote backups plus the use of reliable restoration platforms.

Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Audit in Albuquerque
For pricing information and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Evaluation can enhance your defense against crypto-ransomware in Albuquerque, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.