Bakersfield Ransomware Filtering and Removal Consulting

Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and bad-actor governments, posing a possibly lethal risk to businesses that are breached. The latest variations of ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even selective recovery a long and costly process. Novel versions of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Snatch and Egregor have made the headlines, replacing WannaCry, Cerber, and CryptoWall in prominence, elaborateness, and destructiveness.

Most crypto-ransomware penetrations are caused by innocent-seeming emails with malicious hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" variants that can escape the defenses of legacy signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. Although user training and up-front detection are important to defend your network against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you assume some attacks will eventually succeed and that you prepare a strong backup mechanism that permits you to recover quickly with minimal damage.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is an ultra-affordable service built around an online interview with a Progent cybersecurity consultant skilled in ransomware defense and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will cooperate with your Bakersfield network management staff to collect critical data concerning your security configuration and backup processes. Progent will utilize this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to follow leading practices for implementing and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to block or clean up after a ransomware attack.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on vital issues related to crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report addresses:

Cybersecurity

• Effective use of administration accounts
• Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
• Optimal firewall settings
• Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) configuration
• Advice about AntiVirus (AV) filtering selection and deployment

• Split permission architecture for backup integrity
• Protecting 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 are unusable or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the target is required to send a specified amount of money, typically in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short period of time. It is never certain that delivering the extortion price will restore the lost files or prevent its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A common ransomware attack vector is tainted email, whereby the target is tricked into responding to by means of a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This causes the email message to look as though it came from a trusted sender. Another popular attack vector is a poorly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.

CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by different strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every other year. Notorious examples are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have wreaked more havoc than earlier strains. Even if your backup procedures allow your business to restore your encrypted files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware are launched daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will block a new malware. If an attack does appear in an email, it is important that your users have been taught to be aware of phishing techniques. Your ultimate defense is a solid process for scheduling and keeping offsite backups and the use of reliable recovery platforms.

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