Allen Ransomware Protection and Removal Expertise

Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and malicious states, posing a potentially existential threat to businesses that fall victim. Modern variations of ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even selective restoration a challenging and costly process. Novel strains of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Snatch and Nephilim have emerged, replacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and NotPetya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructiveness.

Most crypto-ransomware infections come from innocuous-seeming emails with dangerous links or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus filters. While user training and frontline detection are critical to protect against ransomware, best practices demand that you take for granted some malware will inevitably succeed and that you deploy a strong backup mechanism that enables you to restore files and services rapidly with minimal damage.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup is an ultra-affordable service centered around an online discussion with a Progent security expert experienced in ransomware protection and recovery. During this assessment Progent will work directly with your Allen network management staff to collect pertinent data concerning your security profile and backup environment. Progent will use this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to follow leading practices for implementing and administering your security and backup solution to block or clean up after a crypto-ransomware assault.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on vital areas associated with ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report covers:

Security

• Effective use of administration accounts
• Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
• Proper firewall configuration
• Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access
• Guidance for AntiVirus filtering selection and deployment

• Split permission architecture for backup protection
• Backing up required servers including AD
• Geographically dispersed 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 cannot be used or are made publicly available. Ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To avoid the carnage, the target is asked to send a specified ransom, typically in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is not guaranteed that paying the ransom will restore the damaged data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or deleted across a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot solve the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is tainted email, in which the target is lured into responding to by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email message to look as though it came from a trusted source. Another popular vulnerability is a poorly protected RDP port.

CryptoLocker opened the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every other year. Famous attacks are Locky, and NotPetya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have wreaked more damage than earlier strains. Even if your backup/recovery processes allow your business to recover your ransomed files, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where stolen data are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware crop up daily, there is no certainty that traditional signature-based anti-virus tools will detect the latest attack. If threat does show up in an email, it is critical that your end users have learned to identify social engineering tricks. Your ultimate protection is a solid scheme for scheduling and keeping remote backups and the deployment of dependable recovery platforms.

Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup in Allen
For pricing details and to learn more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Evaluation can bolster your defense against crypto-ransomware in Allen, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.