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Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800

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Ransomware requires time to steal its way through a target network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are typically unleashed on weekends and at night, when IT personnel may be slower to recognize a breach and are less able to organize a quick and forceful defense. The more lateral progress ransomware can make inside a victim's system, the more time it will require to restore basic IT services and damaged files and the more data can be stolen and posted to the dark web.

Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to guide you to carry out the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware attack by containing the malware. Progent's online ransomware experts can help organizations in the Miami area to locate and quarantine breached devices and guard clean resources from being penetrated.

If your network has been breached by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Progent's Ransomware Response Expertise Available in Miami
Modern strains of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, and Egregor encrypt online files and infiltrate any available backups. Data synchronized to the cloud can also be corrupted. For a poorly defended network, this can make automated restoration almost impossible and basically knocks the IT system back to the beginning. So-called Threat Actors (TAs), the hackers behind a ransomware assault, demand a settlement fee in exchange for the decryption tools needed to unlock encrypted files. Ransomware attacks also attempt to steal (or "exfiltrate") information and TAs demand an additional settlement for not posting this data on the dark web. Even if you can restore your network to a tolerable date in time, exfiltration can pose a major problem according to the sensitivity of the stolen data.

The recovery work subsequent to ransomware breach has a number of distinct phases, most of which can proceed concurrently if the recovery workgroup has a sufficient number of people with the necessary experience.

• Quarantine: This urgent first response involves arresting the lateral progress of ransomware within your network. The more time a ransomware assault is allowed to go unrestricted, the longer and more costly the restoration process. Because of this, Progent keeps a round-the-clock Ransomware Hotline staffed by veteran ransomware response engineers. Quarantine activities consist of cutting off infected endpoint devices from the network to block the spread, documenting the environment, and protecting entry points.
• Operational continuity: This involves restoring the IT system to a basic acceptable level of functionality with the least delay. This effort is usually at the highest level of urgency for the victims of the ransomware assault, who often see it as an existential issue for their business. This project also requires the broadest range of technical skills that span domain controllers, DHCP servers, physical and virtual machines, PCs, notebooks and smart phones, databases, productivity and line-of-business applications, network topology, and safe endpoint access. Progent's ransomware recovery team uses state-of-the-art collaboration platforms to organize the complex restoration effort. Progent understands the importance of working rapidly, continuously, and in unison with a customer's management and network support group to prioritize tasks and to put essential services on line again as fast as possible.
• Data recovery: The effort necessary to recover data impacted by a ransomware assault depends on the condition of the systems, how many files are encrypted, and which recovery methods are needed. Ransomware attacks can destroy key databases which, if not properly shut down, might need to be rebuilt from the beginning. This can apply to DNS and Active Directory databases. Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server rely on AD, and many ERP and other mission-critical applications are powered by SQL Server. Some detective work may be needed to find undamaged data. For example, undamaged OST files (Outlook Email Offline Folder Files) may exist on employees' PCs and laptops that were off line at the time of the assault. Progent's ProSight Data Protection Services utilize Altaro VM Backup tools to defend against ransomware by leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage. This creates tamper-proof data that cannot be modified by anyone including administrators.
• Implementing modern AV/ransomware defense: Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring utilizes SentinelOne's behavioral analysis technology to offer small and medium-sized businesses the advantages of the identical anti-virus tools implemented by some of the world's biggest corporations including Walmart, Visa, and NASDAQ. By delivering in-line malware filtering, identification, containment, restoration and forensics in one integrated platform, ProSight ASM reduces TCO, streamlines administration, and expedites recovery. SentinelOne's next-generation endpoint protection (NGEP) incorporated in Progent's ProSight ASM was listed by Gartner Group as the industry's "most visionary Endpoint Protection Platform." Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Read about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery with SentinelOne technology.
• Negotiating a settlement with the hacker Progent is experienced in negotiating ransom settlements with threat actors. This requires working closely with the ransomware victim and the cyber insurance carrier, if any. Activities include determining the kind of ransomware involved in the assault; identifying and making contact with the hacker persona; verifying decryption tool; budgeting a settlement with the victim and the cyber insurance carrier; establishing a settlement amount and timeline with the hacker; checking compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations; overseeing the crypto-currency payment to the TA; acquiring, learning, and using the decryptor utility; troubleshooting failed files; building a pristine environment; remapping and reconnecting datastores to match precisely their pre-attack state; and restoring computers and software services.
• Forensic analysis: This activity involves discovering the ransomware attack's progress across the network from start to finish. This audit trail of the way a ransomware attack travelled through the network helps you to evaluate the impact and brings to light vulnerabilities in rules or processes that need to be rectified to prevent later breaches. Forensics entails the examination of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to check for changes. Forensic analysis is usually assigned a top priority by the cyber insurance provider. Because forensic analysis can take time, it is vital that other important activities like business continuity are executed in parallel. Progent has an extensive team of IT and data security professionals with the skills needed to carry out activities for containment, operational resumption, and data restoration without disrupting forensic analysis.

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