Corpus Christi Ransomware Filtering and Restoration Solutions

Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for the major cyber-crime organizations and rogue governments, representing a potentially lethal threat to businesses that are breached. Modern variations of ransomware target everything, including backup, making even selective recovery a long and expensive exercise. New variations of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Snatch and Egregor have emerged, displacing Locky, Spora, and NotPetya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructiveness.

90% of crypto-ransomware infections are caused by innocent-seeming emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" strains that elude detection by traditional signature-based antivirus filters. Although user education and frontline identification are critical to defend against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you expect that some malware will eventually succeed and that you deploy a strong backup mechanism that enables you to restore files and services rapidly with little if any damage.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup is a low-cost service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. During this assessment Progent will collaborate directly with your Corpus Christi network management staff to collect critical information about your cybersecurity posture and backup environment. Progent will use this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to apply best practices for implementing and administering your security and backup systems to block or clean up after a ransomware attack.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on vital areas associated with crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report addresses:

Security

• Effective allocation and use of admin accounts
• Appropriate NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
• Proper firewall configuration
• Secure RDP configuration
• Recommend AntiVirus (AV) filtering selection and deployment

• Split permission architecture for backup protection
• Backing up key servers such as Active Directory
• Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is asked to pay a certain ransom, usually in the form of 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 encrypted or erased throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A common ransomware attack vector is tainted email, whereby the user is lured into interacting with by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email message to look as though it came from a trusted source. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.

CryptoLocker opened the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by the many strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every other year. Notorious attacks are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent headline variants like Ryuk, Maze and Cerber are more sophisticated and have caused more havoc than older versions. Even if your backup processes permit your business to recover your ransomed files, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where ransomed data are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no certainty that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect the latest attack. If threat does show up in an email, it is critical that your end users have been taught to identify phishing tricks. Your ultimate protection is a sound scheme for scheduling and keeping offsite backups and the deployment of dependable restoration tools.

Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Audit in Corpus Christi
For pricing information and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Testing can enhance your protection against ransomware in Corpus Christi, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.