Allentown Ransomware Protection and Restoration Solutions

Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for the major cyber-crime organizations and bad-actor states, posing a possibly lethal threat to businesses that are victimized. The latest strains of ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even selective restoration a challenging and costly exercise. Novel versions of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, LockBit and Egregor have emerged, displacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and Petya in prominence, sophistication, and destructiveness.

90% of ransomware penetrations are the result of innocuous-looking emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" attacks that elude the defenses of legacy signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. Although user education and up-front identification are important to protect against ransomware, best practices demand that you take for granted some malware will eventually get through and that you implement a solid backup mechanism that enables you to recover quickly with minimal damage.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup is a low-cost service centered around an online interview with a Progent cybersecurity consultant skilled in ransomware defense and repair. During this assessment Progent will cooperate with your Allentown IT management staff to collect critical information about your security configuration and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to adhere to best practices for implementing and administering your security and backup systems to block or clean up after a ransomware assault.

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

Security

• Proper use of admin accounts
• Correct NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
• Optimal firewall setup
• Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) configuration
• Recommend AntiVirus (AV) tools selection and deployment

• Split permission architecture for backup protection
• Protecting critical servers including AD
• Offsite backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To avoid the carnage, the target is required to send a specified amount of money, usually via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will recover the damaged data or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or deleted 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 typical ransomware attack vector is booby-trapped email, in which the target is tricked into responding to by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email message to appear to come from a familiar source. Another common vulnerability is a poorly secured RDP port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every other year. Notorious examples include WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent high-profile variants like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and CryptoWall are more sophisticated and have caused more havoc than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes permit you to restore your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed data 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 a new malware. If threat does appear in an email, it is critical that your users have learned to be aware of phishing tricks. Your ultimate protection is a sound scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups and the use of dependable recovery tools.

Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment in Allentown
For pricing details and to learn more about how Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Consultation can bolster your protection against ransomware in Allentown, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.