Ransomware Response Consulting Services
Ransomware Negotiation Help
Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Services in Palo Alto
Progent has experience 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 demands close co-operation with the victim's IT staff and the cyber insurance provider, if any. Since the top priority of the ransomware victim is fast recovery, it is vital to deploy response groups that work efficiently, in parallel, and in close communication. Progent offers the breadth of technical skills and the deep bench of personnel to complement your network staff and restore your network environment quickly and affordably.
Services provided by Progent's ransomware settlement team include:
- Establishing the kind of ransomware used in the attack
- Identifying and communicating with the hacker
- Assessing the recovery risk
- Validating the TA's decryption tool
- Deciding on an acceptable settlement range with the victim and the cyber insurance provider
- Negotiating a settlement amount and schedule with the TA
- Checking accordance with anti-money laundering laws
- Carrying out the crypto-currency disbursement to the hacker
- Acquiring, reviewing, and operating the hacker's decryption tool
- If needed, contacting the threat actor for technical assistance with the decryption tool
- Isolating affected endpoints to prevent further progress of the attack
- Creating replicas of each compromised server and endpoint and data store in order to perform forensics without interfering with recovery
- Adding anti-virus agents to all clean endpoints
- Restoring data from air-gapped backups or uncompromised machines
- Building a clean environment
- Mapping and reconnecting datastores to reflect exactly their pre-encryption state
Paying Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond demanding money for a decryption utility, modern variants of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Netwalker, and Nephilim commonly try to steal (or "exfiltrate") files. Hackers can then require an extra payment for not divulging this information or selling it. Unfortunately, there is no way to guarantee that stolen files have been completely deleted by the hacker. Actually, in numerous instances the threat actor has limited say over the disposition of the data. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the necessity of getting the advice of privacy lawyers, conducting an inventory of files were compromised, and sending the necessary alerts to impacted entities. In general, paying an exfiltration ransom is a waste.
Progent's Background
Progent has delivered online and onsite network services across the United States for over two decades and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's team of subject matter experts (SMEs) includes professionals who have earned advanced certifications in core technology platforms such as Cisco networking, VMware virtualization, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's data security experts have earned prestigious certifications such as CISA, CISSP, CRISC, and CMMC 2.0. (Refer to Progent's certifications). Progent also offers top-tier support in financial management and Enterprise Resource Planning software. This broad array of expertise gives Progent the ability to identify and integrate the undamaged pieces of your information system following a ransomware intrusion and rebuild them quickly into an operational system. Progent has worked with leading insurance carriers like Chubb to help organizations recover from ransomware assaults.
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