Boise Ransomware Prevention and Removal Expertise

Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cyber extortionists and rogue governments, representing a possibly existential threat to businesses that are breached. The latest versions of ransomware target everything, including backup, making even selective recovery a challenging and costly exercise. Novel strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Snatch and Nephilim have emerged, replacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and NotPetya in notoriety, sophistication, and destructive impact.

90% of ransomware breaches come from innocent-seeming emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" variants that elude the defenses of traditional signature-matching antivirus tools. Although user training and frontline detection are critical to protect your network against ransomware, leading practices demand that you expect that some attacks will inevitably succeed and that you implement a solid backup solution that enables you to recover quickly with little if any losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is an ultra-affordable service built around a remote discussion with a Progent security consultant experienced in ransomware defense and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Boise IT management staff to gather critical data concerning your security configuration and backup processes. Progent will utilize this data to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to follow leading practices for implementing and managing your cybersecurity and backup solution to block or recover from a crypto-ransomware attack.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on vital issues related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review addresses:

Security

• Proper allocation and use of administration accounts
• Correct NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
• Optimal firewall settings
• Secure Remote Desktop Protocol configuration
• Recommend AntiVirus tools identification and configuration

• Split permission model for backup integrity
• Backing up required servers such as AD
• Offsite backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they are unusable or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware often locks the target's computer. To avoid the carnage, the victim is required to send a specified amount of money, typically via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is never certain that delivering the extortion price will recover the lost data or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or deleted throughout a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, whereby the user is tricked into interacting with by a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This makes the email to look as though it came from a trusted sender. Another common attack vector is an improperly protected RDP port.

CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every other year. Notorious examples are WannaCry, and Petya. Current high-profile variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Cerber are more sophisticated and have wreaked more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup processes enable you to recover your ransomed files, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed data are made public. Because additional variants of ransomware crop up every day, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will block the latest malware. If threat does show up in an email, it is critical that your users have learned to identify phishing tricks. Your last line of protection is a solid scheme for performing and keeping offsite backups and the deployment of reliable recovery platforms.

Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Consultation in Boise
For pricing information and to learn more about how Progent's ProSight Ransomware Readiness Audit can enhance your defense against crypto-ransomware in Boise, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.