Charlotte Ransomware Prevention and Cleanup Expertise

Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and malicious governments, representing a potentially existential threat to businesses that are breached. The latest versions of ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even selective recovery a long and costly process. New variations of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Snatch and Nephilim have made the headlines, replacing WannaCry, Cerber, and CryptoWall in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.

Most ransomware infections are the result of innocuous-seeming emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or attachments, and many are "zero-day" attacks that can escape detection by legacy signature-based antivirus tools. Although user training and frontline detection are important to protect your network against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you take for granted some attacks will eventually get through and that you prepare a strong backup mechanism that enables you to repair the damage rapidly with minimal damage.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report is an ultra-affordable service built around a remote discussion with a Progent security consultant experienced in ransomware defense and repair. During this interview Progent will work directly with your Charlotte IT managers to collect critical information concerning your security setup and backup processes. Progent will use this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to follow best practices for implementing and managing your security and backup solution to prevent or clean up after a crypto-ransomware attack.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment focuses on key areas associated with crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review addresses:

Cybersecurity

• Correct allocation and use of administration accounts
• Assigning NTFS and SMB permissions
• Optimal firewall settings
• Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
• Recommend AntiVirus (AV) tools selection and deployment

• Split permission architecture for backup integrity
• Backing up critical servers including AD
• Offsite backups including cloud backup to Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malicious software that encrypts or deletes files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the carnage, the target is asked to pay a certain amount of money, typically 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 recover the damaged data or avoid its publication. Files can be altered or deleted throughout a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is tainted email, in which the target is lured into responding to by means of a social engineering exploit 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.

CryptoLocker opened the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by the many strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every other year. Notorious attacks include Locky, and Petya. Current headline variants like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Cerber are more complex and have wreaked more havoc than earlier strains. Even if your backup processes permit your business to restore your encrypted data, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public. Because additional variants of ransomware crop up every day, there is no certainty that conventional signature-based anti-virus tools will block the latest malware. If threat does appear in an email, it is critical that your users have been taught to be aware of social engineering tricks. Your last line of protection is a solid scheme for performing and retaining offsite backups plus the deployment of reliable restoration tools.

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