Ransomware Response Consulting Experts

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Consulting in Joinville
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with attackers. Negotiating an acceptable settlement is a complex exercise that calls for a mix of field experience, technical knowledge and business savvy. It also requires close co-operation with the ransomware victim's IT staff and the insurance provider, if any. Because the top priority of the ransomware victim is operational continuity, it is critical to establish recovery teams that operate effectively, concurrently, and with intimate collaboration. Progent offers the scope of IT skills and the deep bench of experts to supplement your network support team and restore your network environment quickly and economically.

Services provided by Progent's ransomware settlement experts include:

• Determining the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Identifying and contacting the hacker persona
• Assessing the recovery risk
• Validating the threat actor's decryption tool
• Budgeting a settlement with the victim and the insurance provider
• Establishing a settlement and schedule with the threat actor
• Verifying accordance with anti-money laundering (AML) laws
• Overseeing the crypto-currency disbursement to the TA
• Acquiring, learning, and using the hacker's decryption tool
• If necessary, contacting the threat actor for technical assistance with the decryptor utility

• Quarantining infected endpoints to arrest the progress of the assault
• Making digital copies of every breached device and data store in order to perform forensics without interfering with recovery
• Adding A/V protection to all clean endpoints
• Recovering files from air-gapped restores or uncompromised machines
• Building a pristine environment
• Mapping and connecting drives to reflect precisely their pre-attack state

Paying Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond extorting money for a decryption tool, current strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Netwalker, and Egregor commonly try to steal (or "exfiltrate") files. TAs can then require an extra ransom in exchange for not publishing this information on the dark web. Unfortunately, there is no method to guarantee that exfiltrated files have been totally erased by the hacker. In fact, in numerous instances the hacker has little control about the disposition of the data. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not free you from the necessity of engaging the guidance of privacy lawyers, performing an inventory of files were stolen, and performing the required notifications to affected entities. Generally, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.

Progent's Qualifications
Progent has provided remote and on-premises network services across the U.S. for over 20 years and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's roster of SMEs includes consultants who have been awarded high-level certifications in core technologies including Cisco infrastructure, VMware, and major distributions of Linux. Progent's cybersecurity consultants have earned industry-recognized certifications such as CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (Refer to Progent's certifications). Progent also has top-tier support in financial management and Enterprise Resource Planning application software. This broad array of expertise allows Progent to salvage and integrate the surviving parts of your network following a ransomware intrusion and rebuild them quickly into an operational system. Progent has collaborated with top cyber insurance carriers including Chubb to help businesses recover from ransomware assaults.

Contact Progent about Crypto-Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Guidance in Joinville
To contact with Progent about ransomware settlement negotiation services in Joinville, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.