Ransomware Response Consulting Services
Ransomware Settlement Guidance
Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Services in Fort Lauderdale
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with threat actors. Reaching an acceptable settlement is a complicated exercise that calls for a combination of real-word experience, IT knowledge and business acumen. It also requires working closely with the ransomware victim's IT staff and the insurance carrier, if any. Because the top goal of the ransomware victim is fast recovery, it is critical to establish recovery groups that operate effectively, concurrently, and with intimate collaboration. Progent has the scope of technical skills and the depth of personnel to supplement your IT support team and recover your network rapidly and economically.
Support offered by Progent's ransomware negotiation team include:
- Determining the type of ransomware used in the assault
- Making contact with the hacker
- Evaluating the likelihood of recovery
- Validating the hacker's decryption tool
- Agreeing on a settlement amount with the ransomware victim and the insurance carrier
- Negotiating a settlement and timeline with the hacker
- Confirming adherence to anti-money laundering (AML) sanctions
- Carrying out the crypto-currency transfer to the TA
- Acquiring, learning, and using the hacker's decryption mechanism
- If necessary, contacting the hacker for assistance with the decryptor tool
- Quarantining infected endpoints to prevent further spread of the attack
- Creating replicas of each infected server and endpoint and data store in order to perform forensics in parallel with restoration
- Installing A/V agents to all clean endpoints
- Recovering files from offline backups or unscathed endpoints
- Building a clean recovery environment
- Mapping and reconnecting drives to reflect precisely their pre-attack condition
Settling Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond demanding payment for a decryption tool, modern strains of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, DopplePaymer, and Egregor often attempt to exfiltrate information. TAs can then demand a separate payment for not divulging this information on the dark web. Unfortunately, there is no method to guarantee that exfiltrated files have been totally deleted by the TA. Actually, in numerous instances the threat actor has limited say over data custody. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the necessity of seeking the advice of privacy lawyers, conducting an investigation into which data were stolen, and performing the necessary alerts to affected entities. In almost all cases, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.
Progent's Background
Progent has delivered remote and on-premises IT services throughout the United States for over 20 years and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's team of subject matter experts (SMEs) includes professionals who have earned high-level certifications in foundation technologies such as Cisco infrastructure, VMware virtualization, and popular Linux distros. Progent's cybersecurity consultants have earned prestigious certifications such as CISM, CISSP-ISSAP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also has guidance in financial and ERP applications. This scope of expertise allows Progent to salvage and integrate the undamaged pieces of your network following a ransomware intrusion and reconstruct them quickly into a viable network. Progent has worked with leading cyber insurance providers including Chubb to help businesses clean up after ransomware assaults.
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