Security specialists in LA that can prepare a company for a ransomware attack

Sparkhound, Transformyx, and CMA have experience with prevention and remediation.

I'm not a security guy, but I think almost all these issues come from phishing attacks.

there are tons of "consultants" that will offer to come in and get you prepared for these types of attacks. the decent ones will be expensive and you will have to be willing to impliment a good bit of process and/or technology changes.

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We are a small shop so I don’t think it makes sense to overdue it on the prevention

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And this right here is why ransomware continues to proliferate.

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You need solid backups and images of your computers. That's an easy way to do it.

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This.

If it's a small operation you want frequent backups so you can quickly and easily restore.

We are a smallish outfit (a couple dozen work stations) that got hit with a ransomare attack about four years ago. We outsource all of our IT to an outside company that specializes in IT work for businesses our size. They had our system set up to do multiple backups per day. We called them the morning we got locked out, they nuked everything, and had us back up in a few hours. It was merely a minor inconvenience.

We would have been up shite creek had we not had the backup. They got in to our server that runs our manufacturing plant and that would have been a nightmare to lose hundreds of in-process orders plus the tens of thousands of records of orders that we have to keep.

I have our IT company send out phishing emails every so often to try and educate my employees. The shite they fall for blows my mind

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Yeah this is what I am after. We are a small company so I think the best way is do as much as we can but not go overboard on trying to eliminate the threat but be proficient and have the proper backup plan in place so we can rest assured our files are safe.

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What I might suggest is to outsource to an IT company (I'm one) and have a plan developed for you then you do the maintenance work. Backups of servers and critical data, make sure no one has local admin accounts and have users change their dang passwords monthly.

If you are in the Lafayette area, I highly recommend Rader Solutions. We’re a small company too and have been very happy with them. Top notch customer service and they’re great on the cybersecurity front. They are also well versed in assisting companies who have been hit by ransomware attacks.

MIS out of Zachary is one I'd look in to for a smaller business