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Progent's Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Consulting in Plano
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with threat actors. Negotiating an optimum settlement is a complex exercise that calls for a mix of real-word experience, IT knowledge and business savvy. It also calls for close co-operation with the ransomware victim's IT team and the insurance carrier, if any. Because the top goal of the ransomware target is fast recovery, it is critical to deploy response groups that work efficiently, in parallel, and in close communication. Progent has the scope of IT knowledge and the depth of personnel to supplement your IT staff and recover your network quickly and affordably.
Services provided by Progent's ransomware negotiation team include:
- Establishing the type of ransomware used in the attack
- Identifying and communicating with the hacker persona
- Assessing the likelihood of recovery
- Validating the TA's decryption tool
- Agreeing on a settlement range with the ransomware victim and the insurance carrier
- Negotiating a settlement and schedule with the threat actor
- Checking compliance with anti-money laundering regulations
- Carrying out the crypto-currency disbursement to the hacker
- Acquiring, learning, and operating the TA's decryptor mechanism
- If needed, contacting the TA for technical assistance with the decryption tool
- Isolating infected endpoints and data stores to prevent further spread of the assault
- Creating digital copies of each compromised device and data store in order to perform forensics in parallel with recovery
- Installing A/V agents to all clean endpoints
- Recovering data from air-gapped backups or uncompromised machines
- Creating a clean environment
- Mapping and connecting drives to match precisely their pre-encryption condition
Paying Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond demanding money for a decryption utility, current strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Netwalker, and Nephilim commonly try to exfiltrate files. Hackers are then able to require a separate settlement for not divulging this data on the dark web. Sadly, there exists no way to prove that stolen data have been completely erased by the threat actor. Actually, in many instances the threat actor has little say about where the information ends up. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the necessity of engaging the guidance of privacy attorneys, conducting an audit on which files were compromised, and sending the necessary notifications to affected entities. In general, paying an exfiltration ransom is a waste.
Progent's Qualifications
Progent has delivered online and onsite IT services across the United States for over 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 networking, VMware virtualization, and popular Linux distros. Progent's data security consultants have earned internationally recognized certifications including CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also offers top-tier support in financial and ERP software. This broad array of expertise gives Progent the ability to identify and consolidate the surviving parts of your information system after a ransomware attack and rebuild them quickly into a viable network. Progent has collaborated with top insurance providers including Chubb to help organizations clean up after ransomware assaults.
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