Allentown Ransomware Prevention and Cleanup Services

Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and malicious governments, representing a potentially existential threat to businesses that are successfully attacked. Modern variations of ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even selective restoration a complex and costly exercise. Novel strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Conti and Nephilim have made the headlines, replacing WannaCry, Cerber, and Petya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.

90% of ransomware penetrations are the result of innocuous-looking emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by legacy signature-based antivirus tools. While user training and frontline identification are critical to defend your network against ransomware, best practices demand that you assume some attacks will inevitably get through and that you implement a solid backup solution that permits you to recover rapidly with little if any damage.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is a low-cost service built around an online discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware defense and repair. During this interview Progent will work directly with your Allentown network managers to collect pertinent data about your security profile and backup environment. Progent will use this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to adhere to leading practices for configuring and administering your cybersecurity and backup solution to prevent or clean up after a ransomware attack.

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

Security

• Proper allocation and use of admin accounts
• Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
• Optimal firewall configuration
• Safe RDP connections
• Advice about AntiVirus (AV) tools selection and configuration

• Split permission model for backup protection
• Backing up critical servers such as AD
• Offsite backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malicious software that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they are unusable or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is required to pay a certain ransom, usually via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. There is no guarantee that paying the ransom will recover the damaged files or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased across a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A common ransomware delivery package is tainted email, whereby the user is tricked into responding to by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email to appear to come from a trusted sender. Another common attack vector 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 caused by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every two years. Notorious examples are Locky, and Petya. Recent high-profile variants like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Spora are more sophisticated and have wreaked more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures enable your business to recover your encrypted data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where stolen documents are exposed to the public. Because additional versions of ransomware crop up every day, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-based anti-virus tools will detect the latest attack. If an attack does show up in an email, it is critical that your end users have learned to be aware of phishing tricks. Your ultimate defense is a sound process for performing and retaining offsite backups and the deployment of dependable recovery platforms.

Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Readiness Evaluation in Allentown
For pricing details and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Review can enhance your protection against ransomware in Allentown, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.