Brooklyn Ransomware Filtering and Remediation Solutions

Ransomware has been widely adopted by cyber extortionists and rogue states, representing a potentially existential risk to businesses that fall victim. Modern versions of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even selective recovery a complex and expensive process. Novel versions of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Snatch and Nephilim have emerged, displacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and CryptoWall in notoriety, elaborateness, and destructiveness.

Most ransomware breaches come from innocuous-looking emails that include malicious hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by traditional signature-matching antivirus tools. While user education and frontline detection are critical to protect your network against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you expect that some malware will eventually succeed and that you prepare a solid backup solution that enables you to restore files and services quickly with little if any losses.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Assessment is a low-cost service centered around an online interview with a Progent cybersecurity consultant skilled in ransomware defense and recovery. During this interview Progent will cooperate with your Brooklyn network managers to collect critical information concerning your security setup and backup environment. Progent will use this information to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to adhere to leading practices for configuring and administering your security and backup systems to block or recover from a ransomware assault.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on vital areas related to ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report addresses:

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• Proper allocation and use of administration accounts
• Correct NTFS and SMB authorizations
• Optimal firewall setup
• Secure RDP connections
• Advice about AntiVirus tools selection and configuration

• Split permission model for backup protection
• Protecting required servers such as Active Directory
• Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they are unusable or are publicized. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the victim's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is required to pay a certain amount of money, usually in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a short time window. There is no guarantee that delivering the extortion price will recover the damaged files or prevent its publication. Files can be altered or erased across a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A common ransomware delivery package is tainted email, whereby the user is tricked into interacting with by a social engineering exploit called spear phishing. This makes the email to appear to come from a trusted sender. Another common vulnerability is an improperly secured Remote Desktop Protocol port.

CryptoLocker opened the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different strains of ransomware is said to be billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Famous examples include WannaCry, and NotPetya. Recent headline variants like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have wreaked more damage than older versions. Even if your backup procedures permit you to recover your ransomed data, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where stolen documents are made public. Because new variants of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-matching anti-virus tools will detect the latest attack. If threat does show up in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to identify phishing tricks. Your ultimate defense is a sound scheme for performing and retaining offsite backups and the use of reliable recovery tools.

Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Readiness Testing in Brooklyn
For pricing information and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Report can enhance your protection against crypto-ransomware in Brooklyn, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.