Perth Ransomware Filtering and Restoration Expertise

Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for cybercriminals and bad-actor governments, posing a potentially lethal threat to businesses that are successfully attacked. The latest strains of ransomware target everything, including online backup, making even selective recovery a long and costly process. New variations of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, LockBit and Nephilim have made the headlines, replacing Locky, Spora, and CryptoWall in notoriety, sophistication, and destructive impact.

Most crypto-ransomware penetrations are caused by innocuous-looking emails that include dangerous links or file attachments, and a high percentage are "zero-day" strains that elude the defenses of traditional signature-based antivirus tools. Although user training and up-front identification are important to protect your network against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you assume some attacks will inevitably succeed and that you deploy a solid backup mechanism that enables you to repair the damage quickly with minimal losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is a low-cost service centered around an online discussion with a Progent security expert experienced in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will cooperate with your Perth IT managers to collect pertinent information concerning your cybersecurity profile and backup processes. Progent will utilize this data to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to apply leading practices for implementing and managing your cybersecurity and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a ransomware assault.

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

Cybersecurity

• Correct use of administration accounts
• Assigning NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) permissions
• Optimal firewall setup
• Secure Remote Desktop Protocol configuration
• Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) tools identification and configuration

• Split permission model for backup integrity
• Backing up critical servers such as AD
• Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware often locks the victim's computer. To avoid the carnage, the victim is asked to pay a specified ransom, usually in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is never certain that delivering the extortion price will restore the lost data or prevent its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware delivery package is spoofed email, in which the victim is lured into interacting with by means of a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This makes the email message to look as though it came from a trusted sender. Another popular vulnerability is an improperly secured RDP port.

CryptoLocker ushered in the new age of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different versions of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars per year, roughly doubling every other year. Famous examples are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, Maze and Spora are more elaborate and have wreaked more havoc than earlier versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes enable you to restore your ransomed data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where ransomed data are made public. Because additional variants of ransomware crop up every day, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-based anti-virus filters will block a new malware. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to identify social engineering techniques. Your last line of defense is a solid scheme for scheduling and retaining offsite backups and the deployment of dependable recovery platforms.

Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Evaluation in Perth
For pricing information and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Audit can bolster your defense against ransomware in Perth, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.