Ransomware Response Services
Crypto-Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Guidance
Overview of Progent's Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Services in Harrisburg
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with attackers. Negotiating an optimum settlement is a complicated activity that calls for a mix of field experience, IT knowledge and business savvy. It also demands close co-operation with the cyber-extortion target's IT staff and the cyber insurance carrier, if any. Since the number one goal of the ransomware target is fast recovery, it is critical to deploy recovery groups that work efficiently, concurrently, and in close communication. Progent offers the scope of IT knowledge and the deep bench of personnel to supplement your network support team and recover your network environment rapidly and economically.
Services offered by Progent's ransomware settlement negotiation experts include:
- Determining the kind of ransomware used in the attack
- Making contact with the hacker persona
- Evaluating the likelihood of recovery
- Verifying the threat actor's decryption tool
- Deciding on an acceptable settlement with the ransomware victim and the insurance carrier
- Establishing a settlement and schedule with the threat actor
- Checking compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) laws
- Carrying out the crypto-currency payment to the TA
- Acquiring, reviewing, and using the hacker's decryption utility
- If necessary, contacting the TA for technical assistance with the decryption tool
- Quarantining infected endpoints to arrest the progress of the attack
- Creating digital copies of each breached server and endpoint and data store in order to perform forensics without interfering with restoration
- Installing A/V agents to all clean endpoints
- Recovering data from air-gapped restores or uncompromised machines
- Building a pristine environment
- Remapping and reconnecting datastores to match precisely their pre-encryption state
Settling Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to demanding money for a decryption utility, current strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Netwalker, and Nephilim commonly attempt to steal (or "exfiltrate") files. Hackers are then able to require an additional settlement in exchange for not publishing this information or selling it. Unfortunately, there exists no way to be certain that stolen data have been completely deleted by the threat actor. Actually, in numerous instances the TA has little control about data custody. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the need for getting the guidance of privacy attorneys, performing an investigation into which data were compromised, and performing the mandated alerts to impacted entities. Generally, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.
Progent's Background
Progent has delivered remote and on-premises network services across the United States for over two decades and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's roster of subject matter experts includes professionals who have been awarded high-level certifications in core technologies including Cisco infrastructure, VMware virtualization, and major Linux distros. Progent's cybersecurity consultants have earned internationally recognized certifications including CISM, CISSP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also has top-tier support in financial management and Enterprise Resource Planning applications. This breadth of skills allows Progent to salvage and integrate the surviving parts of your information system after a ransomware assault and rebuild them rapidly into a functioning system. Progent has collaborated with top insurance carriers like Chubb to assist businesses clean up after ransomware assaults.
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