Brasília Ransomware Protection and Restoration Solutions

Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and bad-actor governments, representing a possibly existential risk to companies that are breached. Modern strains of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even selective recovery a challenging and expensive process. New strains of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Conti and Nephilim have made the headlines, displacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and NotPetya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructiveness.

Most crypto-ransomware infections come from innocent-looking emails that have malicious links or attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" variants that can escape the defenses of legacy signature-matching antivirus (AV) tools. Although user education and frontline identification are important to protect against ransomware attacks, best practices demand that you take for granted some malware will eventually get through and that you deploy a strong backup solution that permits you to recover quickly with minimal losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is a low-cost service built around an online discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert skilled in ransomware defense and repair. In the course of this assessment Progent will collaborate with your Brasília IT managers to collect critical information concerning your cybersecurity profile and backup processes. Progent will use this data to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to follow best practices for implementing and administering your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or recover from a ransomware assault.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key issues related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The review covers:

Cybersecurity

• Effective allocation and use of administration accounts
• Correct NTFS and SMB permissions
• Proper firewall configuration
• Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access
• Recommend AntiVirus tools selection and deployment

• Split permission architecture for backup protection
• Backing up key servers including AD
• Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or deletes files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim is asked to send a specified 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 data or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased across a network depending on the victim'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 user is lured into interacting with by means of a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This makes the email message to appear to come from a familiar source. Another popular attack vector is an improperly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.

CryptoLocker opened the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every other year. Famous attacks are WannaCry, and Petya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and CryptoWall are more sophisticated and have wreaked more havoc than earlier strains. Even if your backup/recovery processes allow you to restore your encrypted files, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where ransomed documents are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect a new malware. If threat does appear in an email, it is important that your users have been taught to be aware of phishing tricks. Your last line of protection is a sound scheme for scheduling and keeping offsite backups plus the deployment of reliable restoration tools.

Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Checkup in Brasília
For pricing details and to learn more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Audit can enhance your protection against crypto-ransomware in Brasília, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.