Charlotte Ransomware Filtering and Removal Consulting

Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and malicious states, representing a possibly existential threat to businesses that are successfully attacked. Current strains of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including online backup, making even partial recovery a long and costly process. New variations of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Snatch and Egregor have emerged, replacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and NotPetya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructiveness.

90% of ransomware breaches are caused by innocuous-seeming emails with dangerous links or file attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by legacy signature-based antivirus tools. Although user education and frontline detection are critical to protect your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices dictate that you assume some malware will eventually get through and that you prepare a solid backup mechanism that allows you to repair the damage rapidly with little if any losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is an ultra-affordable service centered around an online discussion with a Progent cybersecurity consultant experienced in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this assessment Progent will collaborate with your Charlotte IT management staff to collect critical information about your security profile and backup environment. Progent will utilize this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to follow leading practices for configuring and administering your cybersecurity and backup solution to prevent or clean up after a ransomware attack.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key issues associated with crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review addresses:

Cybersecurity

• Effective allocation and use of administration accounts
• Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
• Proper firewall settings
• Secure RDP connections
• Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) tools identification and deployment

• Split permission architecture for backup integrity
• Backing up key servers such as AD
• Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts or deletes files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware often locks the target's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim 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 delivering the extortion price will recover the lost files or avoid its publication. Files can be altered or deleted throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A common ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, in which the target is lured into responding to by a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This makes the email message to appear to come from a trusted source. Another common attack vector is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.

CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by the many strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Notorious examples include Locky, and Petya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, Maze and CryptoWall are more sophisticated and have caused more havoc than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery procedures allow your business to restore your encrypted files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public. Because new variants of ransomware are launched every day, there is no certainty that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will block a new malware. If threat does show up in an email, it is critical that your users have learned to be aware of phishing techniques. Your last line of defense is a sound scheme for performing and retaining offsite backups and the deployment of reliable restoration platforms.

Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Evaluation in Charlotte
For pricing information and to learn more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Evaluation can bolster your defense against ransomware in Charlotte, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.