Ransomware Solutions Services

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Consulting in Adelaide
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with threat actors. Reaching an optimum settlement is a complicated activity that calls for a mix of field experience, IT knowledge and business savvy. It also requires close co-operation with the victim's IT team and the insurance carrier, if any. Since the top goal of the ransomware target is operational continuity, it is vital to deploy response groups that operate efficiently, concurrently, and with intimate collaboration. Progent offers the breadth of IT skills and the deep bench of personnel to supplement your IT staff and restore your network environment quickly and affordably.

Support provided by Progent's ransomware negotiation experts include:

• Establishing the type of ransomware used in the assault
• Identifying and contacting the hacker persona
• Evaluating the likelihood of recovery
• Validating the hacker's decryption capabilities
• Determining a settlement range with the ransomware victim and the insurance carrier
• Negotiating a settlement and timeline with the hacker
• Confirming accordance with anti-money laundering (AML) sanctions
• Managing the crypto-currency disbursement to the TA
• Receiving, reviewing, and using the TA's decryptor utility
• If necessary, contacting the hacker for technical assistance with the decryptor tool

• Quarantining infected endpoints and data stores to prevent further progress of the attack
• Making digital copies of every infected server and endpoint and data store in order to perform forensics without interfering with recovery
• Adding A/V protection to all virus-free endpoints
• Recovering files from air-gapped restores or uncompromised endpoints
• Creating a pristine recovery environment
• Remapping and connecting datastores to reflect exactly their pre-attack state

Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to demanding money for a decryption utility, current variants of ransomware like Ryuk, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, and Egregor often attempt to exfiltrate information. TAs are then able to demand an extra ransom for not posting this information or selling it. Unfortunately, there is no method to be certain that exfiltrated data have been totally deleted by the TA. Actually, in many instances the hacker has little control about data custody. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the need for seeking the advice of legal counsel, conducting an audit on which files were taken, and performing the required notifications to impacted entities. In almost all cases, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.

Progent's Background
Progent has delivered online and onsite IT services throughout the U.S. for over two decades and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's roster of SMEs includes professionals who have been awarded high-level certifications in core technologies such as Cisco infrastructure, VMware virtualization, and popular Linux distros. Progent's data security consultants have earned industry-recognized certifications such as CISM, CISSP-ISSAP, CRISC, and CMMC 2.0. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also offers guidance in financial and Enterprise Resource Planning applications. This broad array of expertise allows Progent to identify and integrate the surviving pieces of your information system after a ransomware assault and reconstruct them quickly into a viable system. Progent has collaborated with top cyber insurance carriers including Chubb to help businesses clean up after ransomware assaults.

Contact Progent about Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Expertise in Adelaide
To get in touch with Progent about crypto-ransomware settlement negotiation services in Adelaide, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.