Birmingham Ransomware Prevention and Recovery Services

Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and malicious governments, representing a possibly lethal risk to businesses that are breached. Modern strains of crypto-ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even partial recovery a complex and expensive process. Novel variations of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, LockBit and Nephilim have emerged, displacing Locky, Cerber, and CryptoWall in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructive impact.

90% of crypto-ransomware penetrations come from innocent-seeming emails that include malicious links or attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) tools. While user education and frontline identification are critical to protect your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices demand that you expect that some attacks will eventually get through and that you prepare a strong backup mechanism that allows you to repair the damage 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 defense and recovery. In the course of this assessment Progent will collaborate with your Birmingham network managers to gather critical information about your security profile and backup environment. Progent will use this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to follow leading practices for implementing and administering your security and backup systems to prevent or recover from a crypto-ransomware attack.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights vital areas associated with crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report covers:

Security

• Correct use of administration accounts
• Appropriate NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
• Proper firewall setup
• Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) configuration
• Guidance for AntiVirus tools selection and configuration

• Split permission model for backup protection
• Protecting required servers including AD
• Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is required to pay a certain amount of money, typically in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is not guaranteed that delivering the extortion price will recover the damaged data or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or erased across a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A common ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, whereby the victim is tricked into responding to by a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This causes the email message to look as though it came from a trusted sender. Another common vulnerability is an improperly protected RDP port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every two years. Famous attacks include WannaCry, and Petya. Current headline variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and CryptoWall are more elaborate and have caused more havoc than earlier versions. Even if your backup processes permit your business to restore your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where stolen documents are exposed to the public. Because additional versions of ransomware are launched daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-based anti-virus filters will block a new attack. If an attack does show up in an email, it is important that your users have been taught to identify phishing techniques. Your last line of defense is a sound scheme for performing and retaining offsite backups and the deployment of dependable recovery tools.

Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report in Birmingham
For pricing details and to learn more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment can bolster your protection against ransomware in Birmingham, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.