Bristol Ransomware Protection and Cleanup Solutions

Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and rogue states, posing a possibly existential threat to businesses that are breached. The latest strains of crypto-ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even partial restoration a complex and expensive process. Novel variations of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, LockBit and Egregor have emerged, displacing Locky, Spora, and CryptoWall in notoriety, sophistication, and destructiveness.

90% of ransomware infections are the result of innocent-looking emails with malicious hyperlinks or attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" variants that elude the defenses of traditional signature-based antivirus filters. Although user training and frontline detection are important to protect against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you expect that some attacks will inevitably get through and that you put in place a strong backup mechanism that allows you to repair the damage quickly with minimal losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will work with your Bristol IT management staff to gather pertinent information about your security profile and backup processes. Progent will use this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to follow best practices for configuring and managing your security and backup solution to block or recover from a crypto-ransomware attack.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights vital areas related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report addresses:

Security

• Effective allocation and use of administration accounts
• Appropriate NTFS and SMB permissions
• Optimal firewall settings
• Secure Remote Desktop Protocol access
• Recommend AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and deployment

• Split permission model for backup protection
• Protecting critical servers including AD
• Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or steals files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is required to send a specified ransom, usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short period of time. It is never certain that delivering the ransom will recover the lost data or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased across a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, in which the victim is tricked into responding to by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email message to appear to come from a familiar source. Another common attack vector is a poorly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.

CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by the many versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every two years. Famous examples are WannaCry, and Petya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, Maze and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have wreaked more havoc than earlier strains. Even if your backup/recovery processes enable your business to restore your encrypted files, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public. Because new versions of ransomware crop up every day, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus filters will block the latest malware. If an attack does appear in an email, it is critical that your users have been taught to be aware of phishing techniques. Your last line of protection is a sound scheme for performing and keeping offsite backups and the use of reliable restoration tools.

Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Susceptibility Evaluation in Bristol
For pricing information and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Ransomware Susceptibility Audit can bolster your protection against ransomware in Bristol, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.