Jacksonville Ransomware Filtering and Cleanup Services

Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cybercriminals and bad-actor states, posing a potentially existential threat to companies that fall victim. Current versions of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even selective restoration a complex and costly exercise. New strains of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Conti and Nephilim have emerged, replacing Locky, Spora, and Petya in prominence, sophistication, and destructive impact.

Most crypto-ransomware penetrations come from innocent-seeming emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" strains that can escape the defenses of traditional signature-matching antivirus filters. Although user education and frontline detection are important to protect your network against ransomware, best practices demand that you take for granted some attacks will inevitably get through and that you prepare a solid backup mechanism that enables you to recover quickly with minimal damage.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is an ultra-affordable service built around an online interview with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware defense and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will work with your Jacksonville network management staff to collect pertinent data about your security setup and backup processes. Progent will utilize this data to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to follow best practices for configuring and administering your cybersecurity and backup solution to block or clean up after a ransomware attack.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights vital areas associated with ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report covers:

Security

• Proper use of administration accounts
• Correct NTFS and SMB permissions
• Proper firewall configuration
• Safe RDP configuration
• Advice about AntiVirus tools selection and deployment

• Split permission architecture for backup protection
• Backing up required servers such as AD
• Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is required to pay a specified amount of money, usually in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief time window. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will recover the lost data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or deleted throughout a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the military-grade encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, whereby the target 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 sender. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by the many versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every other year. Notorious attacks are Locky, and NotPetya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, Maze and TeslaCrypt are more sophisticated and have caused more damage than older strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures enable your business to restore your encrypted data, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new variants of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-based anti-virus tools will block the latest attack. If an attack does show up in an email, it is important that your users have learned to identify social engineering techniques. Your last line of protection is a solid scheme for scheduling and keeping remote backups and the deployment of dependable recovery tools.

Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Evaluation in Jacksonville
For pricing information and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Testing can bolster your defense against ransomware in Jacksonville, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.