Ransomware Solutions Consultants
Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Support
Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Services in Fort Myers
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with hackers. Negotiating an acceptable settlement is a complicated exercise that calls for a combination of real-word experience, technical skills and business acumen. It also requires working closely with the victim's IT staff and the insurance provider, if there is one. Because the number one priority of the ransomware target is fast recovery, it is critical to deploy response groups that work effectively, in parallel, and in close communication. Progent offers the scope of technical skills and the depth of personnel to supplement your network staff and restore your network environment quickly and affordably.
Support available from Progent's ransomware settlement negotiation experts include:
- Establishing the type of ransomware used in the attack
- Identifying and contacting the hacker persona
- Assessing the recovery risk
- Validating the hacker's decryption capabilities
- Determining a settlement payment with the victim and the cyber insurance carrier
- Establishing a settlement amount and timeline with the threat actor
- Confirming adherence to anti-money laundering (AML) regulations
- Carrying out the crypto-currency payment to the TA
- Receiving, learning, and operating the threat actor's decryption mechanism
- If necessary, contacting the hacker for technical help with the decryption utility
- Isolating infected endpoints and data stores to arrest the progress of the attack
- Creating replicas of every compromised server and endpoint and data store in order to perform forensics in parallel with cleanup
- Adding anti-virus agents to all virus-free endpoints
- Restoring files from air-gapped backups or uncompromised endpoints
- Creating a clean recovery environment
- Mapping and reconnecting drives to reflect exactly their pre-attack state
Paying Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond demanding payment for a decryption utility, modern strains of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, and Nephilim commonly try to exfiltrate files. TAs are then able to require a separate settlement in exchange for not posting this information on the dark web. Unfortunately, there is no way to guarantee that stolen files have been completely erased by the threat actor. In fact, in many cases the hacker has little control about where the information ends up. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the necessity of engaging the advice of legal counsel, conducting an inventory of data were taken, and sending the required alerts to impacted entities. In almost all cases, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.
Progent's Background
Progent has provided remote and on-premises network services throughout the U.S. for more than 20 years and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's roster of subject matter experts includes consultants who have earned high-level certifications in foundation technologies such as Cisco infrastructure, VMware, and popular Linux distros. Progent's data security consultants have earned prestigious certifications such as CISA, CISSP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (See Progent's certifications). Progent also has top-tier support in financial and ERP application software. This broad array of expertise gives Progent the ability to identify and integrate the undamaged pieces of your IT environment after a ransomware attack and reconstruct them rapidly into a functioning network. Progent has collaborated with leading insurance providers like Chubb to assist organizations recover from ransomware assaults.
Contact Progent about Crypto-Ransomware Settlement Services in Fort Myers
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