Joinville Ransomware Prevention and Recovery Services

Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and rogue states, representing a possibly existential risk to companies that are breached. Modern versions of ransomware target everything, including backup, making even partial restoration a challenging and expensive exercise. Novel variations of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, LockBit and Nephilim have emerged, displacing Locky, Cerber, and NotPetya in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.

Most crypto-ransomware penetrations are the result of innocent-seeming emails that include malicious hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" attacks that can escape detection by legacy signature-based antivirus filters. While user education and frontline identification are critical to defend your network against ransomware, leading practices demand that you take for granted some attacks will eventually get through and that you deploy a strong backup mechanism that permits you to recover rapidly with minimal damage.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is a low-cost service centered around a remote interview with a Progent cybersecurity consultant skilled in ransomware protection and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will work directly with your Joinville network management staff to collect pertinent data about your security configuration and backup processes. Progent will use this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to follow leading practices for implementing and administering your cybersecurity and backup solution to block or clean up after a crypto-ransomware assault.

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

Cybersecurity

• Effective use of admin accounts
• Assigning NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB permissions
• Proper firewall settings
• Secure Remote Desktop Protocol configuration
• Guidance for AntiVirus filtering identification and deployment

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

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Ransomware often locks the target's computer. To prevent the carnage, the target is asked to pay a certain amount of money (the ransom), usually via a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. There is no guarantee that delivering the ransom will restore the damaged files or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network depending on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A common ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, in which the target is lured into responding to by means of a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a trusted source. Another common vulnerability is a poorly protected Remote Desktop Protocol port.

CryptoLocker opened the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by different strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, more than doubling every two years. Famous attacks are WannaCry, and Petya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, Maze and Cerber are more sophisticated and have wreaked more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup/recovery processes enable your business to recover your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are exposed to the public. Because new variants of ransomware are launched daily, there is no certainty that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect a new malware. If an attack does appear in an email, it is important that your users have learned to be aware of phishing techniques. Your ultimate defense is a sound process for scheduling and retaining remote backups plus the use of dependable recovery platforms.

Ask Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Testing in Joinville
For pricing details and to learn more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Review can bolster your defense against crypto-ransomware in Joinville, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.