Schaumburg Ransomware Prevention and Cleanup Expertise

Ransomware has been widely adopted by the major cyber-crime organizations and malicious states, posing a possibly lethal threat to businesses that are successfully attacked. Current strains of ransomware go after all vulnerable resources, including backup, making even selective restoration a complex and expensive process. Novel variations of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Phobos, LockBit and Egregor have emerged, displacing WannaCry, Spora, and NotPetya in notoriety, sophistication, and destructive impact.

Most ransomware infections are the result of innocuous-seeming emails that have malicious hyperlinks or file attachments, and many are so-called "zero-day" variants that can escape the defenses of traditional signature-based antivirus (AV) tools. While user training and up-front identification are critical to protect your network against ransomware attacks, best practices dictate that you expect that some attacks will eventually get through and that you prepare a strong backup solution that allows you to restore files and services rapidly with minimal damage.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Report is an ultra-affordable service centered around a remote discussion with a Progent security consultant experienced in ransomware protection and recovery. During this interview Progent will work directly with your Schaumburg IT managers to collect critical data about your cybersecurity setup and backup environment. Progent will use this information to produce a Basic Security and Best Practices Assessment detailing how to follow leading practices for implementing and administering your security and backup systems to prevent or clean up after a ransomware assault.

Progent's Basic Security and Best Practices Report focuses on key issues related to crypto-ransomware defense and restoration recovery. The report covers:

Cybersecurity

• Effective allocation and use of administration accounts
• Correct NTFS (New Technology File System) and SMB (Server Message Block) authorizations
• Proper firewall setup
• Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) configuration
• Recommend AntiVirus filtering identification and configuration

• Split permission architecture for backup integrity
• Protecting required servers such as AD
• Offsite backups including cloud backup to Microsoft Azure

About Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of malicious software that encrypts or steals a victim's files so they are unusable or are made publicly available. Crypto-ransomware sometimes locks the target's computer. To avoid the damage, the target is required to send a specified amount of money, typically in the form of a crypto currency like Bitcoin, within a brief period of time. It is never certain that paying the ransom will restore the lost data or avoid its publication. Files can be altered or deleted throughout a network based on the target's write permissions, and you cannot reverse engineer the military-grade encryption technologies used on the compromised files. A common ransomware attack vector is tainted email, in which the target is tricked into responding to by a social engineering technique called spear phishing. This causes the email message to appear to come from a familiar source. Another common attack vector is a poorly protected Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port.

The ransomware variant CryptoLocker opened the modern era of crypto-ransomware in 2013, and the damage attributed to by different strains of ransomware is estimated at billions of dollars annually, roughly doubling every two years. Famous examples include Locky, and NotPetya. Recent high-profile threats like Ryuk, DoppelPaymer and Cerber are more sophisticated and have caused more havoc than older versions. Even if your backup/recovery processes enable you to restore your ransomed data, you can still be hurt by so-called exfiltration, where stolen documents are exposed to the public (known as "doxxing"). Because additional variants of ransomware crop up daily, there is no guarantee that traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools will block a new malware. If threat does appear in an email, it is critical that your users have been taught to be aware of social engineering techniques. Your last line of protection is a solid process for scheduling and keeping remote backups plus the use of dependable restoration tools.

Contact Progent About the ProSight Ransomware Susceptibility Testing in Schaumburg
For pricing information and to find out more about how Progent's ProSight Ransomware Vulnerability Testing can bolster your protection against ransomware in Schaumburg, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.