Anaheim Ransomware Prevention and Remediation Solutions

Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and malicious states, representing a possibly lethal threat to businesses that are successfully attacked. Current variations of crypto-ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even selective restoration a challenging and expensive process. Novel variations of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Snatch and Egregor have emerged, replacing Locky, Spora, and Petya in prominence, sophistication, and destructiveness.

90% of crypto-ransomware infections are caused by innocuous-seeming emails that have malicious hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" variants that elude the defenses of traditional signature-matching antivirus tools. While user education and frontline identification are important to defend your network against ransomware, leading practices demand that you take for granted some attacks will eventually succeed and that you implement a strong backup mechanism that permits you to recover rapidly with minimal losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent cybersecurity consultant skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will cooperate with your Anaheim IT management staff to gather critical information concerning your security posture and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to apply best practices for configuring and administering your cybersecurity and backup solution to prevent or recover from a ransomware assault.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on vital areas associated with ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review covers:

Security

• Proper allocation and use of administration accounts
• Correct NTFS and SMB authorizations
• Proper firewall settings
• Secure RDP connections
• Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) tools identification and deployment

• Split permission architecture for backup integrity
• Backing up required servers including Active Directory
• Offsite backups including cloud backup to Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the carnage, the victim is asked to send a specified amount of money, usually via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is not guaranteed that paying the extortion price will recover the damaged files 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 common ransomware attack vector is tainted email, whereby the victim is tricked into interacting with by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email to look as though it came from a trusted sender. Another popular attack vector is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol port.

CryptoLocker opened the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every other year. Famous attacks are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and CryptoWall are more sophisticated and have wreaked more damage than earlier versions. Even if your backup procedures enable your business to restore your encrypted data, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where stolen data are made public. Because additional variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-based anti-virus filters will detect the latest attack. If an attack does show up in an email, it is important that your end users have learned to be aware of social engineering tricks. Your last line of defense is a sound process for scheduling and keeping offsite backups and the deployment of dependable recovery platforms.

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