Brasília Ransomware Prevention and Removal Expertise

Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and malicious states, posing a potentially existential threat to companies that are victimized. Modern versions of crypto-ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even selective recovery a challenging and costly exercise. New strains of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Conti and Egregor have emerged, displacing WannaCry, Spora, and NotPetya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.

Most crypto-ransomware breaches come from innocuous-looking emails that have malicious links or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) tools. Although user training and frontline identification are important to protect your network against ransomware, leading practices demand that you take for granted some attacks will eventually get through and that you implement a solid backup solution that permits you to repair the damage rapidly with minimal losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup is an ultra-affordable service centered around an online interview with a Progent security consultant experienced in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this assessment Progent will cooperate with your Brasília network management staff to collect critical information about your cybersecurity posture and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to follow leading practices for implementing and administering your cybersecurity and backup systems to block or recover from a crypto-ransomware attack.

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

Security

• Effective use of admin accounts
• Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB permissions
• Optimal firewall configuration
• Secure RDP configuration
• Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) tools selection and deployment

• Split permission model for backup integrity
• Backing up critical servers including Active Directory
• Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or steals files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the target is required to pay 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 paying the ransom will restore the lost data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased across a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, in which the user is tricked into responding to by a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This makes the email message to look as though it came from a familiar sender. Another common vulnerability is a poorly protected RDP port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of 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. Notorious examples are Locky, and NotPetya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, Maze and TeslaCrypt are more sophisticated and have wreaked more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup processes allow your business to recover your encrypted files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are exposed to the public. Because new versions of ransomware are launched daily, there is no certainty that conventional signature-based anti-virus filters will block the latest attack. If threat does appear in an email, it is important that your users have learned to be aware of phishing techniques. Your ultimate protection is a sound scheme for performing and keeping remote backups plus the use of reliable recovery platforms.

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