Las Vegas Ransomware Prevention and Removal Solutions
Ransomware Readiness Consultation
Ransomware has been widely adopted by cybercriminals and bad-actor governments, representing a possibly existential threat to businesses that are breached. The latest variations of crypto-ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even partial restoration a long and expensive exercise. Novel variations of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, Snatch and Egregor have made the headlines, displacing Locky, Spora, and Petya in prominence, sophistication, and destructive impact.
90% of crypto-ransomware penetrations are caused by innocent-looking emails that have malicious links or file attachments, and many are "zero-day" strains that can escape detection by legacy signature-matching antivirus filters. While user training and frontline identification are important to defend against ransomware attacks, leading practices dictate that you take for granted some attacks will eventually get through and that you deploy a solid backup solution that enables you to repair the damage rapidly with minimal damage.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Assessment is a low-cost service built around an online discussion with a Progent security consultant skilled in ransomware defense and recovery. In the course of this interview Progent will collaborate directly with your Las Vegas network managers to collect pertinent data about your security setup and backup environment. Progent will use this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment documenting how to adhere to leading practices for configuring and managing your cybersecurity and backup solution to block or clean up after a crypto-ransomware attack.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on vital areas associated with crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The review covers:
Security
- Correct use of administration accounts
- Assigning NTFS and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
- Optimal firewall setup
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections
- Guidance for AntiVirus (AV) filtering identification and deployment
- Split permission architecture for backup integrity
- Backing up critical servers including AD
- Geographically dispersed backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they cannot be used or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To prevent the damage, the victim is required to send a certain ransom, typically in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is never certain that paying the extortion price will restore the damaged files or prevent its exposure to the public. Files can be altered or deleted across a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot break the military-grade encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A typical ransomware delivery package is tainted email, whereby the user is tricked into interacting with by a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This causes the email to appear to come from a trusted source. Another popular vulnerability is a poorly protected RDP port.
The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the new age of ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses caused by the many versions of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every other year. Notorious examples include WannaCry, and Petya. Recent headline threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and TeslaCrypt are more elaborate and have caused more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup procedures permit you to restore your encrypted files, you can still be threatened by exfiltration, where ransomed data are exposed to the public. Because additional variants of ransomware are launched every day, there is no guarantee that conventional signature-based anti-virus tools will block the latest attack. If threat does appear in an email, it is important that your end users have been taught to be aware of phishing techniques. Your last line of defense is a solid process for performing and retaining remote backups and the use of dependable restoration platforms.
Ask Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Testing in Las Vegas
For pricing information and to learn more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Vulnerability Consultation can bolster your defense against crypto-ransomware in Las Vegas, call Progent at
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