Liverpool Ransomware Protection and Cleanup Solutions
Ransomware Readiness Audit
Ransomware has been weaponized by cyber extortionists and bad-actor governments, representing a potentially lethal threat to businesses that are successfully attacked. The latest strains of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even selective restoration a challenging and costly process. Novel variations of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Snatch and Nephilim have emerged, displacing WannaCry, TeslaCrypt, and Petya in notoriety, sophistication, and destructiveness.
90% of crypto-ransomware infections come from innocent-seeming emails that have dangerous hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" variants that can escape detection by traditional signature-based antivirus tools. Although user training and frontline identification are important to protect against ransomware attacks, best practices demand that you expect that some attacks will inevitably get through and that you implement a strong backup solution that enables you to recover quickly with minimal losses.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Checkup is a low-cost service built around an online discussion with a Progent security consultant experienced in ransomware protection and repair. In the course of this assessment Progent will cooperate with your Liverpool network management staff to gather pertinent information about your cybersecurity posture and backup processes. Progent will utilize this information to create a Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how to follow best practices for implementing and administering your security and backup systems to prevent or recover from a crypto-ransomware assault.
Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report highlights vital issues related to ransomware prevention and restoration recovery. The report covers:
Cybersecurity
- Correct allocation and use of admin accounts
- Assigning NTFS and SMB authorizations
- Optimal firewall setup
- Safe Remote Desktop Protocol connections
- Recommend AntiVirus tools identification and deployment
- Split permission model for backup integrity
- Protecting critical servers such as AD
- Offsite backups with cloud backup to Azure
About Ransomware
Ransomware is a variety of malware that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To avoid the carnage, the target is asked to send a certain ransom, typically in the form of a crypto currency such as Bitcoin, within a brief time window. It is never certain that delivering the ransom will restore the lost files or prevent its publication. Files can be altered or deleted throughout a network depending on the target's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the strong encryption technologies used on the hostage files. A typical ransomware delivery package is booby-trapped email, whereby the user is tricked into responding to by means of a social engineering technique known as spear phishing. This makes the email message to appear to come from a familiar source. Another common vulnerability is a poorly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.
CryptoLocker opened the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the monetary losses attributed to by the many strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars per year, more than doubling every other year. Notorious examples are WannaCry, and NotPetya. Current headline threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Spora are more elaborate and have wreaked more havoc than older strains. Even if your backup/recovery procedures permit you to restore your ransomed data, you can still be threatened by so-called exfiltration, where stolen data are made public. Because new variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no certainty that traditional signature-matching anti-virus filters will detect the latest malware. If threat does appear in an email, it is important that your end users have learned to identify social engineering tricks. Your last line of protection is a solid process for scheduling and keeping offsite backups plus the use of dependable recovery tools.
Contact Progent About the ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Readiness Consultation in Liverpool
For pricing information and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Crypto-Ransomware Preparedness Assessment can bolster your protection against ransomware in Liverpool, phone Progent at
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