Ransomware Response Consulting Services

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Services in Milwaukee
Progent is experienced in negotiating ransomware settlements with threat actors. Reaching an acceptable settlement is a complex exercise that requires a combination of real-word experience, IT skills and business acumen. It also requires close co-operation with the ransomware victim's IT staff and the cyber insurance carrier, if any. Because the number one priority of the ransomware target is operational continuity, it is critical to establish response groups that work effectively, concurrently, and in close communication. Progent has the breadth of technical skills and the depth of experts to supplement your IT staff and recover your network environment quickly and economically.

Services offered by Progent's ransomware negotiation team include:

• Establishing the type of ransomware used in the assault
• Identifying and communicating with the hacker persona
• Assessing the recovery risk
• Testing the TA's decryption capabilities
• Determining a settlement amount with the ransomware victim and the cyber insurance carrier
• Establishing a settlement and timeline with the threat actor
• Confirming adherence to anti-money laundering sanctions
• Carrying out the crypto-currency disbursement to the hacker
• Receiving, reviewing, and using the TA's decryption utility
• If necessary, contacting the threat actor for technical help with the decryption utility

• Quarantining affected endpoints and data stores to arrest the progress of the attack
• Creating digital copies of each compromised device and data store in order to perform forensics without interfering with cleanup
• Adding anti-virus protection to all virus-free endpoints
• Restoring data from air-gapped backups or uncompromised endpoints
• Creating a pristine recovery environment
• Mapping and connecting datastores to reflect precisely their pre-encryption condition

Settling Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond demanding payment for a decryption utility, modern variants of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, and Egregor commonly try to steal (or "exfiltrate") files. Hackers are then able to require an additional payment in exchange for not posting this information or selling it. Unfortunately, there exists no method to prove that stolen files have been completely deleted by the threat actor. In fact, in many cases the TA has little say about where the information ends up. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not free you from the necessity of engaging the advice of privacy lawyers, conducting an inventory of files were stolen, and carrying out the necessary notifications to impacted entities. In almost all cases, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.

Progent's Qualifications
Progent has provided remote and onsite network services across the U.S. for more than 20 years and has earned Microsoft's Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's team of subject matter experts includes professionals who have been awarded high-level certifications in core technology platforms including Cisco infrastructure, VMware virtualization, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's cybersecurity consultants have earned industry-recognized certifications including CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also has guidance in financial and ERP software. This scope of expertise gives Progent the ability to salvage and consolidate the surviving parts of your information system after a ransomware intrusion and reconstruct them quickly into an operational system. Progent has worked with leading cyber insurance carriers including Chubb to help organizations recover from ransomware assaults.

Contact Progent about Ransomware Settlement Guidance in Milwaukee
To contact with Progent about crypto-ransomware settlement negotiation services in Milwaukee, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.