Anaheim Ransomware Protection and Restoration Services

Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and malicious states, representing a potentially lethal risk to companies that are victimized. Modern variations of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even partial restoration a long and expensive exercise. Novel strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Conti and Nephilim have emerged, displacing Locky, Cerber, and Petya in prominence, sophistication, and destructiveness.

90% of crypto-ransomware infections are caused by innocuous-seeming emails with malicious hyperlinks or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" variants that can escape the defenses of legacy signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. Although user training and frontline detection are critical to defend your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices demand that you expect that some malware will inevitably get through and that you prepare a solid backup mechanism that enables you to restore files and services quickly with minimal damage.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is a low-cost service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware protection and recovery. During this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Anaheim network management staff to gather pertinent information about your cybersecurity configuration and backup environment. Progent will use this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to follow leading practices for implementing and administering your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a ransomware assault.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights vital issues associated with crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review covers:

Security

• Proper use of administration accounts
• Assigning NTFS and SMB permissions
• Proper firewall setup
• Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
• Advice about AntiVirus tools selection and configuration

• Split permission architecture for backup protection
• Backing up key servers such as Active Directory
• Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts or deletes files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is required to pay a specified amount of money, typically via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is never certain that paying the ransom will restore the damaged data or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware attack vector is booby-trapped email, whereby the target is lured into interacting with by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email to look as though it came from a trusted source. Another common attack vector is a poorly protected RDP port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by the many versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every other year. Notorious examples include Locky, and Petya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Spora are more complex and have caused more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes enable you to recover your ransomed data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no certainty that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect the latest attack. If threat does show up in an email, it is critical that your users have been taught to identify social engineering techniques. Your last line of defense is a sound scheme for performing and retaining offsite backups plus the deployment of reliable restoration tools.

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