Ransomware Solutions Consulting Services
Crypto-Ransomware Settlement Consulting
Overview of Progent's Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Consulting in Bellevue
Progent is experienced in negotiating ransomware settlements with attackers. Negotiating an acceptable settlement is a complicated exercise that requires a combination of real-word experience, IT skills and business acumen. It also demands close co-operation with the ransomware victim's IT staff and the insurance carrier, if any. Since the top priority of the ransomware victim is operational continuity, it is critical to deploy recovery groups that operate effectively, concurrently, and in close communication. Progent offers the breadth of IT knowledge and the depth of experts to complement your IT support team and restore your network quickly and economically.
Services provided by Progent's ransomware negotiation experts include:
- Determining the type of ransomware involved in the assault
- Identifying and contacting the hacker persona
- Evaluating the recovery risk
- Validating the threat actor's decryption capabilities
- Agreeing on a settlement payment with the ransomware victim and the insurance carrier
- Establishing a settlement amount and schedule with the TA
- Checking accordance with anti-money laundering sanctions
- Managing the crypto-currency disbursement to the TA
- Receiving, reviewing, and using the hacker's decryptor mechanism
- If needed, contacting the TA for technical help with the decryption utility
- Quarantining affected endpoints to prevent further progress of the attack
- Making replicas of every breached device and data store to allow forensics in parallel with restoration
- Installing anti-virus agents to all clean endpoints
- Recovering data from offline restores or uncompromised machines
- Building a clean environment
- Mapping and connecting drives to reflect exactly their pre-encryption state
Paying Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to demanding money for a decryption tool, current strains of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, DopplePaymer, and Nephilim commonly attempt to steal (or "exfiltrate") information. TAs are then able to demand an extra ransom in exchange for not posting this information or selling it. Unfortunately, there is no way to prove that exfiltrated data have been completely erased by the threat actor. Actually, in numerous instances the TA has little say over who can access the stolen files. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not free you from the need for engaging the advice of legal counsel, performing an inventory of files were stolen, and carrying out the necessary alerts to affected entities. In almost all cases, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.
Progent's Background
Progent has provided online and on-premises IT services throughout the United States for more than two decades and has earned Microsoft's Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's roster of SMEs includes professionals who have earned high-level certifications in foundation technology platforms such as Cisco infrastructure, VMware virtualization, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's cybersecurity experts have earned internationally recognized certifications such as CISM, CISSP, CRISC, and CMMC 2.0. (See Progent's certifications). Progent also offers top-tier support in financial and Enterprise Resource Planning application software. This scope of skills allows Progent to identify and integrate the surviving pieces of your IT environment after a ransomware intrusion and reconstruct them rapidly into a viable system. Progent has collaborated with top insurance carriers including Chubb to help organizations recover from ransomware assaults.
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