I love Mimecast -vs- the other services I've used. They're not perfect, but they're really, really good if you set it up correctly.
I used Cylance at a previous job. Nothing but praise from that experience, but that's over a year ago. I once heard someone say the six best things you can do to protect your environment are patch, patch, patch, and train, train train. I still believe that. On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:16 PM, Andrew S. Baker <asbz...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >> > >
