Take a look at *Cylance *(www.cylance.com) and have them give you a demo. They have a super solid product that is excellent against even unknown malware (ransomware is not special in this sense). They gave a most impressive live demo at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit today.
At the mail gateway, Barracuda is a good idea, but also check out *Mimecast* . And I agree that any security awareness training will be helpful. Regards, *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker>* *Providing Expert Technology Consulting Services for the SMB market…* * GPG: *860D 40A1 4DA5 3AE1 B052 8F9F 07A1 F9D6 A549 8842 On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Tom Miller <tominyorkt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > What would you recommend as specific software solutions to protect against > Ransomware? In my company we use: > > - Sonicwall firewalls, and the gateway security component is enabled and > is supposed to help block/prevent. > - Symantec AV. Not specific to ransom-ware but appears to be reactive. > > I'm looking at additional layers of security, such as the Barracuda e-mail > filter. I used that at past jobs and that reduced the "infected" e-mails > considerably. > > I also have used Malwarebytes enterprise. That has an anti-ransomeware > component. I used that in a past job and was not impressed. Malwarebytes > sold is an an "enterprise" solution, but it was a stand alone product, had > not integration with the management console, no configuration and no > notifications. It appeared to be a rush to market. > > Sophos supposedly has a similar solution specific to Malwarebytes but I > have not looked at it yet. > > Internally, we also have targeted employee training and use a service to > send "fake" messages from Amazon/UPS, etc to let them know that they need > to be vigilant when reviewing messages from outside the company. > > Thoughts appreciated. >