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Crypto-Ransomware Negotiation Consultants
Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Services in Boston
Progent is experienced in negotiating ransomware settlements with adversaries. Negotiating an acceptable settlement is a complex exercise that calls for a mix of real-word experience, IT skills and business savvy. It also calls for close co-operation with the ransomware victim's IT staff and the insurance provider, if there is one. Since the top priority of the ransomware victim is operational continuity, it is vital to deploy recovery groups that operate effectively, concurrently, and in close communication. Progent has the breadth of technical knowledge and the depth of experts to complement your network staff and restore your network rapidly and affordably.
Services provided by Progent's ransomware settlement negotiation experts include:
- Determining the kind of ransomware used in the assault
- Identifying and communicating with the hacker persona
- Assessing the recovery risk
- Testing the threat actor's decryption capabilities
- Determining a settlement range with the ransomware victim and the cyber insurance provider
- Negotiating a settlement and timeline with the TA
- Verifying compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) sanctions
- Carrying out the crypto-currency payment to the hacker
- Receiving, learning, and using the threat actor's decryptor mechanism
- If necessary, contacting the threat actor for technical help with the decryption utility
- Isolating infected endpoints to prevent further spread of the assault
- Making replicas of every infected server and endpoint and data store in order to perform forensics in parallel with recovery
- Installing A/V protection to all clean endpoints
- Recovering files from air-gapped backups or unscathed endpoints
- Creating a clean environment
- Mapping and connecting datastores to match precisely their pre-attack condition
Settling Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond demanding money for a decryption utility, current strains of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, DopplePaymer, and Nephilim commonly attempt to exfiltrate information. TAs are then able to require an extra ransom for not posting this data or selling it. Unfortunately, there is no way to be certain that stolen data have been totally deleted by the threat actor. Actually, in many instances the TA has limited control about where the information ends up. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the necessity of engaging the advice of privacy attorneys, performing an audit on which files were stolen, and performing the necessary alerts to affected entities. In almost all cases, paying an exfiltration ransom is a waste.
Progent's Qualifications
Progent has provided online and onsite IT services across the United States for over 20 years and has earned Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's roster of subject matter experts includes professionals who have been awarded advanced certifications in core technology platforms including Cisco infrastructure, 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. (Refer to Progent's certifications). Progent also has guidance in financial and Enterprise Resource Planning applications. This scope of expertise allows Progent to salvage and consolidate the surviving pieces of your IT environment following a ransomware assault and rebuild them quickly into a functioning system. Progent has worked with leading cyber insurance providers including Chubb to help organizations clean up after ransomware attacks.
Contact Progent about Crypto-Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Guidance in Boston
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