Chattanooga Ransomware Filtering and Cleanup Consulting

Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for the major cyber-crime organizations and bad-actor governments, representing a possibly existential risk to companies that are breached. Current strains of ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even partial recovery a challenging and expensive exercise. Novel variations of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Conti and Nephilim have emerged, replacing WannaCry, Spora, and Petya in notoriety, sophistication, and destructive impact.

90% of ransomware penetrations are the result of innocent-looking emails that include dangerous hyperlinks or attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" attacks that elude detection by traditional signature-matching antivirus filters. While user training and frontline detection are important to defend your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices demand that you assume some malware will inevitably get through and that you prepare a solid backup solution that enables you to restore files and services 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 security consultant skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this assessment Progent will collaborate with your Chattanooga IT managers to gather critical information concerning your cybersecurity profile and backup environment. Progent will utilize this data to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to follow best 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 Assessment focuses on key issues related to crypto-ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review addresses:

Security

• Proper allocation and use of administration accounts
• Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB authorizations
• Proper firewall setup
• Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access
• Recommend AntiVirus filtering identification and configuration

• Split permission architecture for backup integrity
• Protecting critical servers such as AD
• Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malicious software that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the carnage, the victim is required to send a certain amount of money, usually in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is never certain that paying the ransom will recover the lost data or avoid its publication. Files can be altered or deleted across a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, in which the user is tricked into responding to by a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This causes the email message to appear to come from a trusted sender. Another popular vulnerability is a poorly protected RDP port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Famous attacks include WannaCry, and Petya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Cerber are more sophisticated and have caused more damage than earlier strains. Even if your backup/recovery processes permit your business to recover your encrypted data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are made public. Because new versions of ransomware crop up every day, there is no certainty that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect a new attack. If threat does appear in an email, it is important that your end users have learned to identify social engineering tricks. Your last line of protection is a sound scheme for performing and retaining remote backups and the use of dependable restoration tools.

Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Report in Chattanooga
For pricing details and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Evaluation can enhance your protection against ransomware in Chattanooga, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.