Ransomware Solutions Consulting Experts

Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Consulting in Fort Collins
Progent is experienced in negotiating ransomware settlements with hackers. Negotiating an optimum settlement is a complicated activity that requires a combination of field experience, technical knowledge and business savvy. It also calls for close co-operation with the victim's IT staff and the cyber insurance carrier, if any. Because the number one priority of the ransomware target is fast recovery, it is critical to establish recovery teams that operate efficiently, concurrently, and with intimate collaboration. Progent offers the scope of technical knowledge and the deep bench of personnel to complement your network support team and recover your network rapidly and economically.

Services offered by Progent's ransomware settlement experts include:

• Establishing the type of ransomware used in the attack
• Identifying and contacting the hacker
• Evaluating the recovery risk
• Verifying the threat actor's decryption capabilities
• Deciding on an acceptable settlement with the victim and the cyber insurance provider
• Establishing a settlement amount and timeline with the hacker
• Verifying compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) sanctions
• Carrying out the crypto-currency payment to the TA
• Acquiring, reviewing, and using the TA's decryptor utility
• If necessary, contacting the TA for assistance with the decryption utility

• Isolating affected endpoints to arrest the progress of the attack
• Creating replicas of every infected device and data store in order to perform forensics in parallel with recovery
• Adding A/V agents to all clean endpoints
• Recovering data from air-gapped backups or unscathed endpoints
• Creating a pristine recovery environment
• Mapping and reconnecting drives to match precisely their pre-encryption state

Settling Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to demanding money for a decryption utility, modern variants of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, and Nephilim commonly attempt to exfiltrate files. Hackers can then require an additional ransom in exchange for not divulging this information on the dark web. Sadly, there exists no method to prove that stolen data have been completely erased by the hacker. In fact, in numerous cases the hacker has limited say about who can access the stolen files. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not free you from the need for getting the advice of privacy lawyers, conducting an investigation into which data were compromised, and sending the mandated notifications to affected entities. Generally, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.

Progent's Background
Progent has provided remote and on-premises IT services throughout the U.S. for more than two decades and has earned Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's team of subject matter experts includes consultants who have been awarded advanced certifications in foundation technologies including Cisco networking, VMware virtualization, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's data security experts have earned prestigious certifications including CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also has top-tier support in financial and Enterprise Resource Planning application software. This scope of skills allows Progent to salvage and integrate the undamaged parts of your network after a ransomware attack and reconstruct them quickly into an operational network. Progent has collaborated with leading cyber insurance providers like Chubb to help businesses recover from ransomware assaults.

Contact Progent about Crypto-Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Services in Fort Collins
To get in touch with Progent about crypto-ransomware settlement negotiation services in Fort Collins, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.