Birmingham Ransomware Prevention and Removal Expertise

Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cybercriminals and rogue governments, posing a potentially lethal threat to companies that are breached. The latest variations of ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even selective recovery a challenging and costly exercise. Novel variations of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Conti and Nephilim have emerged, displacing WannaCry, Cerber, and CryptoWall in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.

Most crypto-ransomware breaches come from innocuous-looking emails that include dangerous links or file attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. Although user education and frontline detection are important to defend against ransomware, best practices demand that you expect that some attacks will eventually get through and that you implement a strong backup mechanism that permits you to repair the damage rapidly with minimal losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is an ultra-affordable service built around a remote interview with a Progent security expert skilled in ransomware protection and repair. During this assessment Progent will collaborate with your Birmingham network management staff to gather critical data about your security configuration and backup environment. Progent will utilize this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to adhere to best practices for implementing and managing your cybersecurity and backup solution to prevent or recover from a ransomware attack.

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

Security

• Proper allocation and use of administration accounts
• Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
• Optimal firewall configuration
• Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
• Recommend AntiVirus tools selection and configuration

• Split permission model for backup protection
• Backing up key servers including AD
• Offsite backups with cloud backup to Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malicious software that encrypts or steals files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the victim is asked to send a certain amount of money (the ransom), typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is never certain that delivering the extortion price will recover the lost files or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot solve the military-grade encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A common ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, in which the user is lured into interacting with by a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This causes the email message to look as though it came from a trusted source. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.

CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by different strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Famous attacks include WannaCry, and Petya. Recent headline variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Spora are more complex and have wreaked more damage than older strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures permit your business to recover your ransomed files, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where stolen data are made public. Because new variants of ransomware are launched daily, there is no certainty that conventional signature-based anti-virus filters will detect a new attack. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your end users have been taught to be aware of phishing techniques. Your ultimate protection is a sound process for scheduling and keeping offsite backups plus the deployment of dependable restoration platforms.

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