Alpharetta Ransomware Prevention and Cleanup Expertise

Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cybercriminals and malicious governments, posing a potentially lethal threat to businesses that are victimized. The latest strains of crypto-ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even selective restoration a complex and expensive exercise. New strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Snatch and Egregor have emerged, displacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and Petya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.

Most ransomware infections come from innocent-looking emails that have malicious hyperlinks or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" variants that elude the defenses of legacy signature-matching antivirus tools. While user training and up-front detection are important to protect your network against ransomware, best practices demand that you assume some malware will inevitably succeed and that you put in place a strong backup solution that permits you to restore files and services quickly with minimal losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report is an ultra-affordable service centered around an online discussion with a Progent security consultant experienced in ransomware defense and recovery. In the course of this assessment Progent will collaborate directly with your Alpharetta network managers to gather critical data concerning your security posture and backup processes. Progent will use this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to apply best practices for configuring and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to block or clean up after a crypto-ransomware assault.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights key issues associated with ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review addresses:

Security

• Effective allocation and use of admin accounts
• Correct NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB permissions
• Proper firewall setup
• Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
• Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) filtering selection and deployment

• Split permission model for backup integrity
• Backing up required servers such as AD
• Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malicious software that encrypts or deletes 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 required to send a certain ransom, typically in the form of 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 altered or deleted across a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, in which the user is tricked into interacting with by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email message to appear to come from a trusted source. Another common vulnerability is a poorly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.

CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every other year. Famous attacks are Locky, and Petya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, Maze and CryptoWall are more elaborate and have wreaked more havoc than older versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes allow your business to restore your ransomed files, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public. Because additional versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no certainty that conventional signature-based anti-virus tools will detect a new malware. If an attack does show up in an email, it is critical that your end users have learned to be aware of social engineering techniques. Your last line of defense is a sound scheme for scheduling and keeping offsite backups plus the use of dependable restoration tools.

Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Review in Alpharetta
For pricing information and to learn more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Review can bolster your protection against crypto-ransomware in Alpharetta, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.