Brighton Ransomware Defense and Recovery Services

Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and rogue governments, representing a potentially lethal risk to businesses that are successfully attacked. The latest strains of ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even partial restoration a complex and costly exercise. New strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Conti and Egregor have emerged, displacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and Petya in prominence, sophistication, and destructive impact.

Most crypto-ransomware breaches are caused by innocent-looking emails with dangerous links or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus filters. Although user education and frontline identification are critical to defend against ransomware attacks, best practices demand that you assume some attacks will eventually get through and that you prepare a solid backup solution that enables you to repair the damage rapidly with minimal losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is a low-cost service built around a remote interview with a Progent security expert skilled in ransomware defense and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will collaborate with your Brighton IT management staff to gather critical data concerning your cybersecurity profile and backup environment. Progent will use this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to follow best practices for implementing and managing your security and backup solution to block or recover from a ransomware assault.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights key issues associated with ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review covers:

Cybersecurity

• Proper use of admin accounts
• Appropriate NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
• Proper firewall setup
• Secure Remote Desktop Protocol connections
• Advice about AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and configuration

• Split permission architecture for backup protection
• Backing up key servers such as Active Directory
• Offsite backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malicious software that encrypts or steals files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is asked to pay a specified ransom, usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will restore the damaged data or prevent its publication. Files can be altered or erased throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A common ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, in which the user is tricked into responding to by a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This causes the email to look as though it came from a trusted source. Another common vulnerability is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by different versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every two years. Notorious attacks include Locky, and Petya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Cerber are more elaborate and have caused more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures allow you to restore your ransomed files, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional variants of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will block a new attack. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your users have been taught to identify phishing tricks. Your last line of protection is a solid scheme for performing and keeping offsite backups plus the use of reliable recovery platforms.

Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Readiness Checkup in Brighton
For pricing details and to learn more about how Progent's ProSight Ransomware Readiness Review can enhance your protection against ransomware in Brighton, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.