Panama City Ransomware Protection and Remediation Services

Ransomware has been weaponized by the major cyber-crime organizations and rogue states, posing a potentially lethal threat to businesses that fall victim. The latest variations of ransomware go after everything, including online backup, making even partial recovery a long and costly process. New strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Conti and Nephilim have emerged, replacing Locky, Spora, and NotPetya in notoriety, sophistication, and destructiveness.

Most crypto-ransomware infections are the result of innocuous-seeming emails with malicious hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" strains that elude the defenses of legacy signature-based antivirus (AV) filters. While user training and up-front detection are important to protect against ransomware, best practices dictate that you assume some attacks will eventually succeed and that you put in place a solid backup mechanism that allows you to recover rapidly with minimal losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Checkup is an ultra-affordable service built around a remote discussion with a Progent security expert skilled in ransomware defense and repair. In the course of this assessment Progent will collaborate directly with your Panama City network management staff to gather critical data concerning your security posture and backup processes. Progent will use this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to follow best practices for configuring and managing your cybersecurity and backup solution to prevent or clean up after a ransomware attack.

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

Security

• Effective allocation and use of admin accounts
• Assigning NTFS and SMB permissions
• Optimal firewall settings
• Safe RDP access
• Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and configuration

• Split permission architecture for backup integrity
• Protecting key servers including Active Directory
• Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Microsoft Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts or deletes a victim's files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To prevent the damage, the target is required to send a certain amount of money, usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short period of time. It is never certain that delivering the ransom will restore the damaged data or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout 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 delivery package is tainted email, whereby the target is tricked into responding to by a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This makes the email message to appear to come from a familiar source. Another common vulnerability is a poorly secured RDP port.

CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by the many versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every other year. Notorious attacks include Locky, and NotPetya. Current headline variants like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have caused more damage than older versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes enable you to recover your encrypted files, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where stolen documents are exposed to the public. Because additional variants of ransomware are launched every day, there is no certainty that traditional signature-matching anti-virus filters will block a new attack. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your end users have learned to identify phishing techniques. Your last line of defense is a sound scheme for scheduling and keeping remote backups and the deployment of dependable restoration tools.

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