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Progent's Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Services in Lexington-Fayette
Progent is experienced in negotiating ransomware settlements with hackers. Reaching an optimum settlement is a complicated exercise that requires a mix of real-word experience, IT skills and business acumen. It also requires working closely with the ransomware victim's IT team and the cyber insurance provider, if any. Since the top goal of the ransomware victim is fast recovery, it is critical to deploy recovery teams that work effectively, in parallel, and with intimate collaboration. Progent has the scope of IT knowledge and the depth of personnel to complement your network support team and recover your network quickly and economically.
Support offered by Progent's ransomware settlement team include:
- Establishing the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
- Making contact with the hacker
- Assessing the recovery risk
- Testing the TA's decryption capabilities
- Budgeting a settlement range with the victim and the insurance provider
- Negotiating a settlement amount and schedule with the TA
- Checking compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) laws
- Carrying out the crypto-currency payment to the hacker
- Receiving, reviewing, and operating the hacker's decryption tool
- If needed, contacting the threat actor for technical help with the decryptor tool
- Isolating infected endpoints and data stores to prevent further progress of the attack
- Making digital copies of each infected server and endpoint and data store in order to perform forensics without interfering with cleanup
- Adding A/V protection to all virus-free endpoints
- Salvaging files from air-gapped restores or uncompromised machines
- Creating a clean environment
- Remapping and reconnecting datastores to reflect precisely their pre-encryption state
Paying Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to extorting money for a decryption utility, current variants of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Netwalker, and Nephilim commonly try to exfiltrate files. TAs can then demand an additional payment in exchange for not posting this information on the dark web. Unfortunately, there exists no method to prove that exfiltrated files have been totally erased by the hacker. Actually, in numerous instances the threat actor has limited control over data custody. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not free you from the necessity of getting the guidance of privacy lawyers, conducting an audit on which files were stolen, and sending the mandated alerts to impacted entities. In almost all cases, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.
Progent's Background
Progent has delivered remote and onsite network services across the United States for over 20 years and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's roster of SMEs includes professionals who have earned advanced certifications in foundation technology platforms such as Cisco infrastructure, VMware virtualization, and popular Linux distros. Progent's cybersecurity experts have earned internationally recognized certifications including CISM, CISSP, CRISC, and CMMC 2.0. (See Progent's certifications). Progent also offers guidance in financial and ERP applications. This breadth of expertise gives Progent the ability to identify and consolidate the surviving parts of your information system after a ransomware attack and reconstruct them quickly into a viable network. Progent has collaborated with top cyber insurance carriers including Chubb to assist businesses clean up after ransomware assaults.
Contact Progent about Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Guidance in Lexington-Fayette
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