Bakersfield Ransomware Filtering and Recovery Services

Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and bad-actor governments, posing a possibly lethal threat to businesses that are breached. The latest variations of ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even selective recovery a challenging and expensive exercise. Novel strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, LockBit and Nephilim have emerged, replacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and Petya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.

Most ransomware infections come from innocuous-looking emails with malicious hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by traditional signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. Although user education and up-front identification are critical to protect against ransomware attacks, best practices demand that you expect that some malware will eventually get through and that you put in place a solid backup mechanism that permits you to recover rapidly with minimal damage.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is a low-cost service centered around a remote interview with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware defense and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will collaborate with your Bakersfield IT managers to collect critical information concerning your cybersecurity profile and backup environment. Progent will use this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to apply leading practices for configuring and administering your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or recover from a ransomware attack.

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

Security

• Effective allocation and use of administration accounts
• Appropriate NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
• Optimal firewall configuration
• Secure Remote Desktop Protocol access
• Advice about AntiVirus tools identification and deployment

• Split permission architecture for backup protection
• Protecting required servers such as Active Directory
• Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the carnage, the target is asked to pay a specified amount of money (the ransom), usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short period of time. There is no guarantee that paying the ransom will restore the damaged data or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased across a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware attack vector is booby-trapped email, whereby the target is tricked into responding to by means of a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This causes the email to appear to come from a trusted source. Another common vulnerability is a poorly secured RDP port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in 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 two years. Famous attacks are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Current headline threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Cerber are more sophisticated and have caused more havoc than earlier strains. Even if your backup/recovery processes allow your business to recover your ransomed files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new variants of ransomware are launched daily, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect a new malware. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your users have learned to be aware of phishing tricks. Your ultimate protection is a sound process for scheduling and keeping remote backups plus the deployment of dependable recovery tools.

Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Review in Bakersfield
For pricing information and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Audit can enhance your defense against crypto-ransomware in Bakersfield, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.