Cheyenne Ransomware Defense and Cleanup Solutions

Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and bad-actor states, posing a potentially existential risk to businesses that are victimized. The latest strains of crypto-ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even partial restoration a challenging and costly process. Novel versions of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Conti and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing Locky, Cerber, and Petya in prominence, sophistication, and destructiveness.

90% of ransomware penetrations are the result of innocuous-looking emails with dangerous hyperlinks or attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" attacks that elude the defenses of traditional signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. Although user training and frontline identification are important to defend against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you expect that some attacks will eventually succeed and that you deploy a strong backup solution that allows you to recover rapidly with little if any losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is an ultra-affordable service built around an online interview with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware defense and repair. During this interview Progent will work directly with your Cheyenne network management staff to gather pertinent information concerning your cybersecurity profile and backup processes. Progent will utilize this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to apply leading practices for configuring and managing your security and backup solution to prevent or recover from a ransomware attack.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights key areas related to ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report addresses:

Cybersecurity

• Effective use of administration accounts
• Correct NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB authorizations
• Proper firewall configuration
• Secure RDP access
• Advice about AntiVirus (AV) filtering selection and deployment

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

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the carnage, the target is asked to pay a specified ransom, usually via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short time window. It is not guaranteed that delivering the extortion price will recover the lost files or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or deleted across a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware attack vector is tainted email, in which the user is tricked into interacting with by a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This makes the email message to appear to come from a trusted source. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly protected RDP port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by different versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every two years. Notorious attacks include Locky, and NotPetya. Current headline variants like Ryuk, Maze and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have caused more havoc than earlier versions. Even if your backup procedures allow your business to restore your encrypted data, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public. Because additional variants of ransomware are launched daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will block the latest malware. If an attack does appear in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to be aware of phishing tricks. Your last line of protection is a solid scheme for scheduling and retaining remote backups plus the deployment of reliable recovery platforms.

Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Susceptibility Checkup in Cheyenne
For pricing details and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Ransomware Susceptibility Testing can bolster your defense against crypto-ransomware in Cheyenne, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.