Broomfield Ransomware Filtering and Removal Solutions

Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cyber extortionists and malicious governments, posing a potentially lethal risk to businesses that are breached. The latest versions of ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even partial restoration a challenging and expensive process. Novel strains of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Snatch and Egregor have emerged, replacing Locky, Cerber, and CryptoWall in prominence, sophistication, and destructiveness.

Most crypto-ransomware breaches are the result of innocuous-looking emails that include malicious links or attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by traditional signature-matching antivirus tools. Although user training and frontline detection are critical to protect your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices dictate that you take for granted some attacks will eventually succeed and that you prepare a strong backup mechanism that permits you to restore files and services rapidly with minimal damage.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is a low-cost service centered around an online interview with a Progent security expert experienced in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this assessment Progent will cooperate directly with your Broomfield network management staff to gather critical data concerning your security profile and backup environment. Progent will utilize this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to follow best practices for implementing and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to block or clean up after a crypto-ransomware attack.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights vital areas related to crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review covers:

Security

• Proper allocation and use of administration accounts
• Correct NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
• Optimal firewall settings
• Secure RDP configuration
• Recommend AntiVirus filtering identification and deployment

• Split permission architecture for backup protection
• Protecting critical servers such as AD
• Offsite backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or steals files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is required to send a specified amount of money, typically via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is not guaranteed that paying the extortion price will restore the damaged files or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or deleted 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 typical ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, whereby the victim is tricked into responding to by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email message to appear to come from a familiar source. Another common attack vector is a poorly secured Remote Desktop Protocol port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Notorious examples include Locky, and Petya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and TeslaCrypt are more sophisticated and have wreaked more damage than older strains. Even if your backup processes enable you to restore your encrypted files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where stolen documents are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware crop up every day, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-based 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 be aware of social engineering techniques. Your ultimate protection is a sound scheme for performing and retaining remote backups and the use of dependable recovery tools.

Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Review in Broomfield
For pricing details and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Audit can enhance your protection against ransomware in Broomfield, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.