Ransomware Response Consulting Services
Crypto-Ransomware Negotiation Consultants
Overview of Progent's Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Services in Lima
Progent is experienced in negotiating ransomware settlements with threat actors. Negotiating an acceptable settlement is a complicated activity that requires a combination of real-word experience, technical skills and business savvy. It also calls for close co-operation with the ransomware victim's IT staff and the insurance provider, if there is one. Since the number one goal of the ransomware target is operational continuity, it is critical to establish response groups that work efficiently, in parallel, and with intimate collaboration. Progent has the scope of IT knowledge and the depth of personnel to complement your IT support team and restore your network environment quickly and economically.
Services available from Progent's ransomware negotiation team include:
- Establishing the kind of ransomware used in the assault
- Identifying and communicating with the hacker persona
- Assessing the recovery risk
- Validating the TA's decryption tool
- Budgeting a settlement payment with the ransomware victim and the insurance provider
- Negotiating a settlement amount and timeline with the TA
- Confirming adherence to anti-money laundering (AML) laws
- Managing the crypto-currency disbursement to the hacker
- Acquiring, reviewing, and using the TA's decryption mechanism
- If needed, contacting the hacker for technical assistance with the decryption utility
- Quarantining affected endpoints and data stores to prevent further spread of the assault
- Making replicas of every compromised server and endpoint and data store in order to perform forensics in parallel with recovery
- Installing A/V agents to all clean endpoints
- Salvaging data from offline restores or uncompromised machines
- Building a pristine environment
- Mapping and reconnecting datastores to match precisely their pre-encryption condition
Settling Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to demanding payment for a decryption utility, current strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, and Egregor often attempt to steal (or "exfiltrate") files. Hackers can then demand an additional settlement in exchange for not publishing this information on the dark web. Sadly, there exists no way to prove that exfiltrated files have been totally deleted by the hacker. In fact, in many instances the hacker has little control over where the information ends up. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not free you from the necessity of getting the guidance of privacy attorneys, conducting an inventory of data were taken, and performing the mandated notifications to impacted entities. Generally, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.
Progent's Background
Progent has delivered online and onsite IT services across the United States for over two decades and has earned Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's roster of subject matter experts includes consultants who have earned high-level certifications in foundation technology platforms such as Cisco networking, VMware, and major distributions of Linux. Progent's data security consultants have earned industry-recognized certifications such as CISM, CISSP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also has top-tier support in financial management and ERP software. This broad array of expertise allows Progent to salvage and consolidate the surviving pieces of your network after a ransomware intrusion and rebuild them quickly into a viable system. Progent has collaborated with top insurance carriers like Chubb to help organizations clean up after ransomware assaults.
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