Buffalo Ransomware Filtering and Remediation Services

Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cyber extortionists and malicious governments, representing a possibly existential threat to businesses that are successfully attacked. Modern variations of ransomware target everything, including backup, making even selective recovery a challenging and costly process. Novel strains of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, LockBit and Egregor have emerged, replacing WannaCry, Cerber, and NotPetya in prominence, elaborateness, and destructive impact.

Most ransomware penetrations come from innocent-seeming emails that have dangerous links or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus tools. Although user education and frontline identification are important to defend your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices dictate that you assume some malware will inevitably get through and that you prepare a strong backup mechanism that allows you to restore files and services rapidly with little if any losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent cybersecurity consultant skilled in ransomware defense and recovery. In the course of this assessment Progent will work with your Buffalo IT management staff to gather pertinent information about your cybersecurity configuration and backup processes. Progent will use this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to follow best practices for implementing and administering your cybersecurity and backup systems to block or recover from a crypto-ransomware assault.

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

Cybersecurity

• Proper use of admin accounts
• Appropriate NTFS and SMB authorizations
• Proper firewall setup
• Secure RDP access
• Recommend AntiVirus (AV) tools selection and configuration

• Split permission architecture for backup protection
• Protecting key servers including Active Directory
• Offsite backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is required to send a specified ransom, usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. There is no guarantee that delivering the ransom will restore the lost data or avoid its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased across a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot solve the strong encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A common ransomware delivery package is tainted email, in which the user is lured into responding to by means of a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This makes the email message to look as though it came from a familiar sender. Another popular attack vector is an improperly secured RDP port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the new age 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 other year. Notorious examples are WannaCry, and Petya. Current high-profile variants like Ryuk, Maze and CryptoWall are more complex and have wreaked more damage than older strains. Even if your backup/recovery processes enable your business to restore your encrypted files, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are made public. Because additional versions of ransomware crop up every day, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect a new attack. If an attack does show up in an email, it is critical that your end users have learned to identify social engineering tricks. Your ultimate defense is a sound process for scheduling and retaining remote backups plus the deployment of dependable restoration platforms.

Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Susceptibility Testing in Buffalo
For pricing information and to learn more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Review can enhance your defense against crypto-ransomware in Buffalo, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.