Ransomware Response Consulting Experts

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Services in London
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with attackers. Negotiating an optimum settlement is a complex exercise that requires a mix of field experience, IT skills and business savvy. It also demands close co-operation with the victim's IT staff and the cyber insurance provider, if any. Because the top goal of the ransomware victim is fast recovery, it is vital to establish response groups that operate effectively, in parallel, and with intimate collaboration. Progent offers the breadth of IT knowledge and the depth of personnel to supplement your network support team and recover your network environment rapidly and economically.

Support offered by Progent's ransomware settlement negotiation team include:

• Establishing the type of ransomware involved in the assault
• Making contact with the hacker persona
• Evaluating the likelihood of recovery
• Testing the threat actor's decryption tool
• Agreeing on a settlement range with the victim and the cyber insurance provider
• Negotiating a settlement and timeline with the hacker
• Checking accordance with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations
• Managing the crypto-currency disbursement to the TA
• Acquiring, reviewing, and operating the TA's decryptor tool
• If needed, contacting the TA for assistance with the decryption utility

• Isolating infected endpoints to arrest the spread of the assault
• Making digital copies of each compromised server and endpoint and data store to allow forensics in parallel with recovery
• Installing A/V agents to all virus-free endpoints
• Recovering files from offline restores or unscathed endpoints
• Creating a pristine environment
• Remapping and reconnecting drives to reflect precisely their pre-attack state

Settling Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to demanding money for a decryption utility, current strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, and Nephilim commonly attempt to exfiltrate information. TAs are then able to require an additional payment in exchange for not posting this information on the dark web. Sadly, there exists no way to be certain that stolen files have been completely deleted by the TA. Actually, in many instances the hacker has limited say about where the information ends up. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the necessity of getting the advice of legal counsel, performing an inventory of data were compromised, and sending the necessary alerts to impacted entities. In almost all cases, paying an exfiltration ransom is a waste.

Progent's Background
Progent has delivered remote and on-premises IT services throughout the United States for more than 20 years and has earned Microsoft's Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's team of SMEs includes professionals who have been awarded high-level certifications in foundation technology platforms such as Cisco infrastructure, VMware virtualization, and major Linux distros. Progent's cybersecurity consultants have earned internationally recognized certifications such as CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (Refer to certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also offers guidance in financial and ERP applications. This breadth of expertise gives Progent the ability to identify and integrate the undamaged parts of your information system 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.

Contact Progent about Crypto-Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Expertise in London
To contact with Progent about ransomware settlement guidance in London, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.