Ransomware Solutions Consulting Services
Crypto-Ransomware Negotiation Consultants
Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Services in Leeds
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with hackers. Negotiating an acceptable settlement is a complex activity that calls for a combination of real-word experience, IT skills and business savvy. It also demands working closely with the cyber-extortion target's IT team and the cyber insurance provider, if any. Since the top goal of the ransomware target is operational continuity, it is critical to deploy response groups that operate efficiently, in parallel, and with intimate collaboration. Progent offers the breadth of IT skills and the depth of experts to supplement your IT staff and restore your network environment rapidly and affordably.
Services offered by Progent's ransomware settlement negotiation experts include:
- Determining the kind of ransomware used in the assault
- Making contact with the hacker persona
- Assessing the likelihood of recovery
- Verifying the hacker's decryption tool
- Determining a settlement with the victim and the insurance carrier
- Negotiating a settlement amount and timeline with the TA
- Checking accordance with anti-money laundering (AML) laws
- Managing the crypto-currency disbursement to the TA
- Acquiring, reviewing, and operating the hacker's decryptor utility
- If needed, contacting the hacker for assistance with the decryption utility
- Quarantining infected endpoints and data stores to arrest the progress of the attack
- Creating digital copies of every infected device and data store to allow forensics in parallel with restoration
- Adding anti-virus agents to all clean endpoints
- Restoring files from offline restores or uncompromised endpoints
- Creating a pristine environment
- Remapping and reconnecting drives to reflect exactly their pre-attack condition
Paying Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to extorting payment for a decryption utility, current variants of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Netwalker, and Nephilim commonly attempt to steal (or "exfiltrate") information. TAs can then demand a separate ransom in exchange for not publishing this information on the dark web. Sadly, there is no way to prove that stolen data have been completely erased by the TA. In fact, in many cases the TA has little say about data custody. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not free you from the necessity of engaging the advice of privacy lawyers, conducting an inventory of files were taken, and performing the required notifications to affected entities. Generally, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.
Progent's Background
Progent has delivered online and onsite IT services throughout the U.S. for more than 20 years and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's roster of subject matter experts includes consultants who have earned high-level certifications in core technology platforms such as Cisco networking, VMware virtualization, and major distributions of Linux. Progent's data security experts have earned industry-recognized certifications including CISM, CISSP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also offers top-tier support in financial and Enterprise Resource Planning application software. This broad array of expertise allows Progent to identify and consolidate the surviving parts of your information system after a ransomware intrusion and rebuild them rapidly into a viable network. Progent has collaborated with leading insurance carriers like Chubb to assist organizations clean up after ransomware attacks.
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