Cabo Frio Ransomware Prevention and Cleanup Services

Ransomware has been weaponized by the major cyber-crime organizations and malicious states, posing a possibly lethal risk to businesses that are victimized. Current variations of ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even partial recovery a challenging and expensive process. New variations of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Conti and Nephilim have emerged, displacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and Petya in prominence, sophistication, and destructive impact.

90% of ransomware infections are caused by innocuous-looking emails that include dangerous links or file attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" attacks that elude detection by traditional signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. While user training and up-front identification are important to protect against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you take for granted some malware will eventually succeed and that you put in place a solid backup mechanism that permits you to repair the damage rapidly with little if any losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is an ultra-affordable service centered around an online interview with a Progent cybersecurity consultant experienced in ransomware defense and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Cabo Frio network managers to gather critical information concerning your security profile and backup environment. Progent will use this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to apply leading practices for configuring and managing your cybersecurity and backup solution to prevent or recover from a ransomware assault.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on vital areas associated with ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review covers:

Security

• Effective allocation and use of admin accounts
• Correct NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
• Optimal firewall setup
• Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access
• Recommend AntiVirus (AV) filtering selection and deployment

• Split permission architecture for backup integrity
• Protecting required servers including Active Directory
• Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or deletes files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the target's computer. To prevent the damage, the target is required to send a certain amount of money, typically in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is never certain that delivering the ransom will recover the damaged files or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or deleted throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware attack vector is tainted email, in which the victim is tricked into interacting with by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email message to appear to come from a trusted sender. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every other year. Notorious examples include Locky, and Petya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, Maze and TeslaCrypt are more sophisticated and have caused more havoc than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery procedures enable you to restore your encrypted data, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed data are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware are launched daily, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect a new malware. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your end users have learned to identify social engineering tricks. Your last line of defense is a sound scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups plus the deployment of reliable restoration platforms.

Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Readiness Assessment in Cabo Frio
For pricing information and to learn more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Testing can bolster your protection against crypto-ransomware in Cabo Frio, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.