Ransomware Solutions Consultants

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Services in Cabo Frio
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with adversaries. Negotiating an optimum settlement is a complex exercise that requires a combination of real-word experience, technical skills and business acumen. It also demands working closely with the cyber-extortion target's IT team and the cyber insurance provider, if any. Because the top goal of the ransomware victim is fast recovery, it is vital to deploy response groups that work efficiently, concurrently, and in close communication. Progent has the scope of technical knowledge and the depth of personnel to supplement your IT support team and restore your network rapidly and affordably.

Services provided by Progent's ransomware settlement negotiation experts include:

• Establishing the type of ransomware involved in the attack
• Identifying and contacting the hacker
• Evaluating the recovery risk
• Verifying the threat actor's decryption tool
• Budgeting a settlement amount with the ransomware victim and the cyber insurance provider
• Establishing a settlement amount and schedule with the threat actor
• Checking compliance with anti-money laundering regulations
• Carrying out the crypto-currency disbursement to the TA
• Acquiring, reviewing, and using the TA's decryption utility
• If necessary, contacting the hacker for technical assistance with the decryption utility

• Quarantining affected endpoints to arrest the spread of the attack
• Making digital copies of every compromised server and endpoint and data store in order to perform forensics in parallel with recovery
• Installing A/V agents to all clean endpoints
• Recovering files from air-gapped backups or unscathed machines
• Creating a clean recovery environment
• Remapping and connecting drives to match precisely their pre-attack condition

Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to extorting money for a decryption utility, modern strains of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Netwalker, and Nephilim often try to exfiltrate information. TAs can then require an additional settlement in exchange for not posting this information or selling it. Unfortunately, there is no method to guarantee that exfiltrated files have been totally deleted by the hacker. In fact, in numerous cases the hacker has limited control over where the information ends up. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the necessity of getting the advice of privacy lawyers, conducting an audit on which data were taken, and carrying out the necessary notifications to impacted entities. Generally, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.

Progent's Background
Progent has provided online and on-premises network services across the United States for more than 20 years and has earned Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's roster of SMEs includes professionals who have been awarded high-level certifications in foundation technologies such as Cisco infrastructure, VMware virtualization, and major Linux distros. Progent's data security experts have earned internationally recognized certifications including CISM, CISSP-ISSAP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (Refer to Progent's certifications). Progent also offers guidance in financial and ERP applications. This scope of skills gives Progent the ability to identify and consolidate the surviving parts of your information system after a ransomware assault and rebuild them quickly into an operational network. Progent has collaborated with leading cyber insurance providers like Chubb to assist organizations clean up after ransomware assaults.

Contact Progent about Crypto-Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Guidance in Cabo Frio
To get in touch with Progent about crypto-ransomware settlement guidance in Cabo Frio, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.