Cheyenne Ransomware Prevention and Recovery Services

Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cybercriminals and malicious governments, posing a potentially existential risk to businesses that are breached. The latest strains of ransomware target all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even selective recovery a complex and expensive process. New variations of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Snatch and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and CryptoWall in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.

90% of ransomware breaches are caused by innocuous-looking emails with malicious links or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" variants that elude detection by traditional signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. While user training and up-front identification are important to defend your network against ransomware, best practices demand that you assume some malware will eventually succeed and that you put in place a strong backup mechanism that enables you to repair the damage quickly with little if any damage.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is a low-cost service built around an online discussion with a Progent security consultant experienced in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will collaborate directly with your Cheyenne network management staff to gather critical information about your cybersecurity profile and backup environment. Progent will utilize this data to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to apply best practices for configuring and managing your security and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a crypto-ransomware attack.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights vital areas related to ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review addresses:

Cybersecurity

• Effective allocation and use of administration accounts
• Assigning NTFS and SMB permissions
• Optimal firewall configuration
• Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) configuration
• Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) tools selection and configuration

• Split permission model for backup protection
• Protecting critical servers including Active Directory
• Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malicious software that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the victim is asked to pay a certain ransom, typically via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short period of time. There is no guarantee that paying the extortion price will restore the lost files or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A common ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, in which the user is tricked into responding to by means of a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This makes the email to look as though it came from a familiar source. Another popular attack vector is a poorly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every other year. Famous attacks include Locky, and NotPetya. Current headline variants like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and Spora are more complex and have wreaked more havoc than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes permit your business to recover your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus filters will block the latest attack. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your users have been taught to identify phishing techniques. Your ultimate protection is a solid process for scheduling and keeping remote backups and the deployment of dependable recovery tools.

Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Testing in Cheyenne
For pricing details and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Checkup can bolster your protection against ransomware in Cheyenne, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.