Downers Grove Ransomware Filtering and Removal Services
Ransomware Readiness Audit
Ransomware has become the weapon of choice for the major cyber-crime organizations and bad-actor governments, representing a potentially existential threat to businesses that are successfully attacked. Current strains of ransomware go after everything, including backup, making even selective restoration a long and costly process. New variations of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, DopplePaymer, Conti and Nephilim have emerged, replacing WannaCry, Cerber, and Petya in prominence, sophistication, and destructive impact.
Most ransomware infections are caused by innocent-looking emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or file attachments, and a high percentage are so-called "zero-day" strains that elude detection by traditional signature-matching antivirus filters. While user education and up-front identification are critical to protect your network against ransomware attacks, leading practices demand that you take for granted some malware will inevitably succeed and that you deploy a solid backup mechanism that permits you to restore files and services rapidly with little if any losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is an ultra-affordable service built around a remote interview with a Progent security consultant experienced in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this interview Progent will collaborate directly with your Downers Grove IT managers to collect pertinent information about your cybersecurity setup and backup environment. Progent will use this data to generate a Basic Security and Best Practices Report documenting how to apply leading practices for configuring and managing your security and backup systems to block or recover from a ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key issues associated with ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Cybersecurity
- Proper allocation and use of administration accounts
- Assigning NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Optimal firewall settings
- Safe RDP connections
- Advice about AntiVirus (AV) tools selection and configuration
- Split permission architecture for backup protection
- Protecting required servers such as Active Directory
- Geographically dispersed backups including cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malicious software that encrypts or steals files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware often locks the target's computer. To avoid the carnage, the target is required to pay a certain ransom, typically in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a short period of time. There is no guarantee that paying the ransom will restore the lost data or avoid its publication. Files can be encrypted or erased throughout a network based on the victim's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption algorithms used on the hostage files. A common ransomware attack vector is tainted email, in which the user is tricked into responding to by a social engineering exploit known as spear phishing. This makes the email message to look as though it came from a trusted sender. Another popular vulnerability is a poorly protected RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker ushered in the modern era of ransomware in 2013, and the damage caused by the many versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every two years. Notorious attacks are WannaCry, and Petya. Current high-profile threats like Ryuk, Sodinokibi and CryptoWall are more elaborate and have wreaked more damage than earlier strains. Even if your backup procedures enable your business to recover your encrypted files, you can still be hurt by exfiltration, where ransomed data are made public (known as "doxxing"). Because new versions of ransomware crop up every day, there is no certainty that conventional signature-based 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 be aware of phishing tricks. Your last line of protection is a sound scheme for scheduling and keeping offsite backups and the deployment of dependable restoration tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Consultation in Downers Grove
For pricing details and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report can bolster your defense against crypto-ransomware in Downers Grove, call Progent at
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