Beverly Hills Ransomware Protection and Remediation Solutions

Ransomware has been weaponized by the major cyber-crime organizations and rogue governments, representing a potentially lethal threat to companies that are successfully attacked. The latest strains of ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even partial restoration a challenging and costly exercise. Novel strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Snatch and Egregor have made the headlines, displacing Locky, Cerber, and Petya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.

Most ransomware breaches are the result of innocent-looking emails that include dangerous links or file attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" variants that can escape the defenses of legacy signature-matching antivirus tools. While user training and frontline identification are critical to protect against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you assume some malware will inevitably get through and that you prepare a solid backup solution that enables you to restore files and services quickly with minimal damage.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is a low-cost service built around an online interview with a Progent cybersecurity consultant experienced in ransomware defense and repair. During this assessment Progent will cooperate with your Beverly Hills network managers to collect pertinent information about your security posture and backup environment. Progent will use this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to adhere to best practices for configuring and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to block or clean up after a ransomware assault.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights key areas related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report addresses:

Security

• Correct allocation and use of admin accounts
• Correct NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB permissions
• Optimal firewall configuration
• Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) configuration
• Guidance for AntiVirus tools identification and deployment

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

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware often locks the target's computer. To avoid the carnage, the target is asked to pay a specified amount of money (the ransom), typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will recover the damaged data or prevent its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased across a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A common ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, in which the user is tricked into responding to by a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a trusted source. Another popular attack vector is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by different strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every other year. Notorious attacks include WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and CryptoWall are more complex and have caused more damage than earlier strains. Even if your backup procedures enable your business to recover your encrypted data, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where stolen data are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-based anti-virus filters will detect a new malware. If an attack does show up in an email, it is important that your users have been taught to be aware of phishing tricks. Your last line of defense is a sound process for performing and retaining offsite backups plus the deployment of dependable restoration tools.

Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Audit in Beverly Hills
For pricing details and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Review can bolster your defense against ransomware in Beverly Hills, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.