Ransomware Response Services
Ransomware Settlement Help
Overview of Progent's Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Services in Garland
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with threat actors. Negotiating an acceptable settlement is a complicated activity that calls for a mix of real-word experience, IT knowledge and business savvy. It also demands close co-operation with the victim's IT staff and the insurance carrier, if any. Because the top priority of the ransomware target is fast recovery, it is vital 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 network support team and restore your network environment quickly and affordably.
Services offered by Progent's ransomware negotiation experts include:
- Determining the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
- Making contact with the hacker
- Assessing the recovery risk
- Testing the threat actor's decryption tool
- Budgeting a settlement range with the victim and the cyber insurance provider
- Negotiating a settlement amount and timeline with the threat actor
- Confirming compliance with anti-money laundering regulations
- Managing the crypto-currency payment to the TA
- Acquiring, learning, and operating the threat actor's decryptor mechanism
- If necessary, contacting the hacker for technical assistance with the decryption utility
- Quarantining affected endpoints to arrest the progress of the attack
- Making replicas of every breached server and endpoint and data store to allow forensics without interfering with restoration
- Adding A/V protection to all virus-free endpoints
- Restoring files from offline backups or uncompromised endpoints
- Creating a clean recovery environment
- Mapping and reconnecting datastores to match exactly their pre-encryption state
Paying Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond demanding money for a decryption utility, modern variants of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, and Nephilim commonly attempt to exfiltrate information. Hackers are then able to demand an extra payment in exchange for not divulging this data or selling it. Sadly, there is no method to be certain that stolen files have been completely deleted by the hacker. In fact, in many cases the TA has little say about the disposition of the data. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not free you from the necessity of engaging the guidance of privacy attorneys, conducting an audit on which files were compromised, and performing the required alerts to affected entities. In general, paying an exfiltration ransom is a waste.
Progent's Background
Progent has delivered online and onsite network services throughout the United States for more than two decades and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's team of SMEs includes consultants who have been awarded high-level certifications in core technology platforms including Cisco infrastructure, VMware, and popular Linux distros. Progent's data security consultants have earned prestigious certifications such as CISM, CISSP-ISSAP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also offers guidance in financial management and Enterprise Resource Planning applications. This broad array of skills allows Progent to salvage and consolidate the undamaged pieces of your IT environment after a ransomware attack and reconstruct them quickly into an operational system. Progent has worked with top insurance carriers like Chubb to assist businesses recover from ransomware assaults.
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