Fort Myers Ransomware Protection and Cleanup Expertise

Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cyber extortionists and bad-actor states, representing a potentially lethal risk to businesses that are breached. The latest versions of crypto-ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even selective recovery a complex and costly exercise. Novel versions of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Conti and Egregor have made the headlines, replacing WannaCry, Cerber, and CryptoWall in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.

Most crypto-ransomware infections come from innocuous-looking emails with malicious links or file attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" attacks that elude the defenses of traditional signature-matching antivirus (AV) tools. Although user training and up-front detection are important to defend your network against ransomware, leading practices dictate that you assume some attacks will eventually succeed and that you deploy a solid backup solution that permits you to restore files and services rapidly with minimal losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup is a low-cost service centered around an online discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert skilled in ransomware defense and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will cooperate directly with your Fort Myers network managers to collect pertinent data about your cybersecurity setup and backup environment. Progent will utilize this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to apply best practices for configuring and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to block or clean up after a ransomware attack.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights key areas associated with ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review addresses:

Security

• Effective use of administration accounts
• Appropriate NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
• Proper firewall setup
• Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access
• Recommend AntiVirus tools selection and deployment

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

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malicious software that encrypts or steals files so they are unusable or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is required to send a certain ransom, typically via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will restore the damaged files or prevent its publication. Files can be encrypted or deleted throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A common ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, whereby the victim is lured into interacting with by a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This makes the email message to appear to come from a familiar sender. Another popular attack vector is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.

CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by different strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every two years. Notorious examples are Locky, and NotPetya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, Maze and Spora are more complex and have wreaked more havoc than older versions. Even if your backup processes enable you to restore your encrypted data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed documents are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-based anti-virus tools will detect a new malware. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your users have been taught to be aware of social engineering tricks. Your last line of defense is a solid scheme for performing and retaining remote backups plus the use of reliable restoration platforms.

Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Susceptibility Report in Fort Myers
For pricing information and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Assessment can enhance your defense against crypto-ransomware in Fort Myers, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.