Ransomware Solutions Consulting Services

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Services in Stockton
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with hackers. Reaching an optimum settlement is a complicated activity that calls for a combination of field experience, IT skills and business savvy. It also requires close co-operation with the ransomware victim's IT staff and the cyber insurance provider, if any. Since the top goal of the ransomware victim is operational continuity, it is vital to deploy recovery teams that work effectively, in parallel, and with intimate collaboration. Progent has the scope of IT knowledge and the deep bench of personnel to complement your network support team and recover your network quickly and affordably.

Services available from Progent's ransomware settlement experts include:

• Determining the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Making contact with the hacker persona
• Assessing the likelihood of recovery
• Validating the hacker's decryption tool
• Deciding on an acceptable settlement range with the victim and the cyber insurance provider
• Establishing a settlement and schedule with the TA
• Checking adherence to anti-money laundering sanctions
• Overseeing the crypto-currency disbursement to the hacker
• Receiving, learning, and using the hacker's decryption utility
• If needed, contacting the hacker for assistance with the decryptor tool

• Isolating infected endpoints to prevent further progress of the attack
• Making replicas of every compromised server and endpoint and data store to allow forensics in parallel with cleanup
• Adding anti-virus protection to all virus-free endpoints
• Restoring files from air-gapped restores or uncompromised endpoints
• Building a clean recovery environment
• Remapping and connecting drives to match precisely their pre-attack condition

Settling Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to demanding money for a decryption utility, current strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Netwalker, and Egregor commonly attempt to steal (or "exfiltrate") information. Hackers can then require an extra ransom in exchange for not divulging this data or selling it. Sadly, there exists no way to guarantee that stolen data have been totally erased by the TA. Actually, in many cases the threat actor has limited say over who can access the stolen files. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not free you from the necessity of getting the guidance of privacy lawyers, performing an inventory of data were taken, and carrying out the required notifications to impacted entities. In general, paying an exfiltration ransom is a waste.

Progent's Qualifications
Progent has provided online and on-premises IT services across the United States for over two decades and has been awarded 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 technologies such as Cisco networking, VMware, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's cybersecurity experts have earned industry-recognized certifications including CISM, CISSP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also offers top-tier support in financial management and Enterprise Resource Planning applications. This broad array of expertise gives Progent the ability to salvage and integrate the surviving pieces of your information system following a ransomware assault and reconstruct them quickly into a viable network. Progent has collaborated with top insurance providers like Chubb to assist organizations recover from ransomware attacks.

Contact Progent about Crypto-Ransomware Settlement Expertise in Stockton
To get in touch with Progent about ransomware settlement guidance in Stockton, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.