Ransomware Response Consulting Experts

Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Consulting in San Mateo
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with adversaries. Negotiating an optimum settlement is a complex activity that calls for a mix of real-word experience, IT skills and business savvy. It also requires close co-operation with the cyber-extortion target's IT team and the insurance carrier, if any. Since the top priority of the ransomware target is fast recovery, it is critical to establish recovery teams that operate efficiently, concurrently, and with intimate collaboration. Progent has the scope of IT skills and the depth of personnel to complement your network staff and recover your network environment rapidly and economically.

Support available from Progent's ransomware settlement team include:

• Establishing the type of ransomware involved in the attack
• Identifying and communicating with the hacker
• Evaluating the likelihood of recovery
• Testing the hacker's decryption capabilities
• Determining a settlement payment with the ransomware victim and the cyber insurance provider
• Negotiating a settlement and schedule with the hacker
• Checking accordance with anti-money laundering sanctions
• Overseeing the crypto-currency payment to the hacker
• Acquiring, learning, and using the threat actor's decryptor mechanism
• If needed, contacting the threat actor for assistance with the decryptor tool

• Quarantining affected endpoints and data stores to arrest the spread of the assault
• Creating digital copies of each infected device and data store in order to perform forensics in parallel with restoration
• Installing A/V agents to all virus-free endpoints
• Salvaging data from offline backups or uncompromised machines
• Building a pristine recovery environment
• Remapping and reconnecting datastores to match precisely their pre-encryption condition

Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond demanding payment for a decryption tool, modern variants of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, and Egregor often try to exfiltrate information. Hackers can then require a separate ransom for not publishing this data or selling it. Sadly, there exists no way to guarantee that stolen files have been totally erased by the threat actor. Actually, in many cases the TA has little say over the disposition of the data. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not free you from the necessity of engaging the advice of privacy lawyers, conducting an investigation into which data were taken, and sending the necessary notifications to impacted entities. Generally, paying an exfiltration ransom is a waste.

Progent's Background
Progent has delivered online and on-premises network services throughout the United States for over two decades and has earned Microsoft's Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's roster of subject matter experts includes professionals who have earned advanced certifications in foundation technologies such as Cisco infrastructure, VMware virtualization, and major distributions of Linux. Progent's cybersecurity consultants have earned prestigious certifications such as CISM, CISSP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also offers top-tier support in financial and ERP application software. This breadth of skills allows Progent to salvage and consolidate the surviving pieces of your information system following a ransomware attack and reconstruct them quickly into a functioning network. Progent has collaborated with leading insurance carriers like Chubb to help businesses recover from ransomware attacks.

Contact Progent about Crypto-Ransomware Settlement Expertise in San Mateo
To contact with Progent about ransomware settlement expertise in San Mateo, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.