Ransomware Response Consulting Services

Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Services in Los Angeles
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with threat actors. Reaching an acceptable settlement is a complex activity that calls for a combination of field experience, IT skills and business savvy. It also demands working closely with the cyber-extortion target's IT team and the insurance carrier, if there is one. Since the number one priority of the ransomware target is operational continuity, it is vital to establish recovery teams that operate effectively, concurrently, and with intimate collaboration. Progent offers the scope of IT skills and the deep bench of personnel to supplement your network staff and recover your network environment rapidly and affordably.

Services available from Progent's ransomware settlement negotiation team include:

• Determining the type of ransomware involved in the attack
• Identifying and contacting the hacker persona
• Assessing the recovery risk
• Testing the TA's decryption capabilities
• Budgeting a settlement amount with the victim and the cyber insurance provider
• Negotiating a settlement amount and schedule with the threat actor
• Confirming accordance with anti-money laundering sanctions
• Overseeing the crypto-currency transfer to the hacker
• Acquiring, reviewing, and operating the TA's decryptor utility
• If needed, contacting the hacker for technical assistance with the decryption tool

• Isolating affected endpoints and data stores to prevent further spread of the assault
• Making digital copies of every compromised device and data store to allow forensics without interfering with restoration
• Installing A/V agents to all clean endpoints
• Salvaging files from air-gapped restores or unscathed endpoints
• Building a clean recovery environment
• Mapping and connecting datastores to match exactly their pre-attack state

Settling Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond extorting money for a decryption utility, current strains of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, and Egregor commonly try to steal (or "exfiltrate") information. TAs are then able to require an additional ransom in exchange for not divulging this data or selling it. Sadly, there exists no method to prove that stolen files have been totally erased by the hacker. Actually, in many instances the hacker has little say over the disposition of the data. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not free you from the need for engaging the advice of privacy lawyers, conducting an inventory of files were stolen, and performing the mandated notifications to affected entities. Generally, paying an exfiltration ransom is a waste.

Progent's Background
Progent has provided remote and onsite IT services throughout the U.S. for over two decades and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's roster of subject matter experts includes consultants who have been awarded advanced certifications in foundation technologies such as Cisco infrastructure, VMware, and major distributions of Linux. Progent's cybersecurity consultants have earned internationally recognized certifications including CISM, CISSP, CRISC, and CMMC 2.0. (See Progent's certifications). Progent also has guidance in financial management and Enterprise Resource Planning software. This breadth of expertise gives Progent the ability to identify and consolidate the undamaged pieces of your information system following a ransomware intrusion and rebuild them rapidly into a viable system. Progent has collaborated with leading insurance carriers like Chubb to help organizations clean up after ransomware assaults.

Contact Progent about Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Services in Los Angeles
To contact with Progent about crypto-ransomware settlement negotiation services in Los Angeles, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.