Downers Grove Ransomware Protection and Restoration Services

Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and bad-actor states, posing a possibly existential threat to companies that are successfully attacked. The latest strains of crypto-ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even selective restoration a long and costly exercise. Novel strains of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Conti and Nephilim have emerged, displacing Locky, TeslaCrypt, and NotPetya in notoriety, sophistication, and destructiveness.

Most crypto-ransomware infections are the result of innocent-looking emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or file attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" attacks that elude the defenses of traditional signature-matching antivirus (AV) filters. Although user education and up-front identification are important to defend against ransomware attacks, leading practices demand that you assume some attacks will eventually succeed and that you prepare a solid backup mechanism that permits you to repair the damage quickly with minimal losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent cybersecurity expert experienced in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will work with your Downers Grove IT management staff to gather critical information about your security configuration and backup processes. Progent will utilize this data to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to follow best practices for implementing and managing your cybersecurity and backup solution to prevent or recover from a crypto-ransomware assault.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment highlights key areas related to crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report covers:

Cybersecurity

• Effective use of administration accounts
• Appropriate NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB authorizations
• Proper firewall setup
• Secure RDP connections
• Recommend AntiVirus filtering selection and deployment

• Split permission architecture for backup integrity
• Backing up key servers such as AD
• Geographically dispersed backups with 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. Crypto-ransomware often locks the target's computer. To prevent the carnage, the victim is required to send a specified amount of money, typically via a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short period of time. There is no guarantee that delivering the ransom will restore the lost data or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot break the strong encryption algorithms used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware attack vector is spoofed email, in which the user is tricked into responding to by means of a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a trusted sender. Another common attack vector is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by the many strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every other year. Notorious examples include Locky, and Petya. Current headline variants like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have caused more damage than older strains. Even if your backup procedures allow you to restore your ransomed files, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional versions of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect the latest malware. If threat does show up in an email, it is critical that your users have learned to identify social engineering tricks. Your ultimate protection is a solid process for scheduling and retaining remote backups plus the deployment of reliable recovery tools.

Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Testing in Downers Grove
For pricing information and to learn more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Audit can bolster your protection against crypto-ransomware in Downers Grove, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.