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Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Services
Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Services in Hialeah
Progent is experienced in negotiating ransomware settlements with adversaries. Negotiating an acceptable settlement is a complex activity that requires a combination of field experience, technical knowledge and business acumen. It also calls for close co-operation with the ransomware victim's IT staff and the insurance carrier, if there is one. Since the top priority of the ransomware victim is fast recovery, it is vital to deploy recovery groups that work efficiently, in parallel, and with intimate collaboration. Progent has the breadth of technical skills and the deep bench of experts to complement your IT support team and recover your network rapidly and economically.
Support provided by Progent's ransomware settlement experts include:
- Determining the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
- Identifying and communicating with the hacker
- Evaluating the recovery risk
- Verifying the TA's decryption tool
- Budgeting a settlement with the victim and the cyber insurance carrier
- Establishing a settlement amount and schedule with the hacker
- Confirming compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) laws
- Carrying out the crypto-currency transfer to the hacker
- Acquiring, reviewing, and operating the TA's decryption mechanism
- If necessary, contacting the TA for technical assistance with the decryptor tool
- Isolating infected endpoints and data stores to prevent further progress of the attack
- Making replicas of every infected device and data store to allow forensics in parallel with cleanup
- Installing A/V agents to all virus-free endpoints
- Restoring data from offline backups or unscathed machines
- Creating a pristine recovery environment
- Remapping and connecting drives to reflect exactly their pre-encryption condition
Paying Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to extorting money for a decryption tool, modern variants of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, and Nephilim often try to exfiltrate files. Hackers are then able to require an extra ransom for not publishing this information on the dark web. Sadly, there exists no method to be certain that stolen data have been totally erased by the threat actor. In fact, in numerous cases the threat actor has little control about where the information ends up. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the necessity of seeking the guidance of legal counsel, conducting an investigation into which files were taken, and performing the mandated alerts to impacted entities. Generally, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.
Progent's Qualifications
Progent has provided remote and onsite network services throughout the United States for more than 20 years and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's roster of subject matter experts includes professionals who have earned high-level certifications in core technology platforms including Cisco networking, VMware virtualization, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's cybersecurity experts have earned internationally recognized certifications such as CISM, CISSP, CRISC, and CMMC 2.0. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also has guidance in financial management and ERP application software. This scope of skills allows Progent to identify and consolidate the undamaged pieces of your information system after a ransomware intrusion and rebuild them quickly into a functioning system. Progent has worked with leading cyber insurance carriers like Chubb to help businesses clean up after ransomware attacks.
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