Ransomware Solutions Consultants

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Consulting in Lakeland
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with threat actors. Negotiating an optimum settlement is a complex exercise that calls for a mix of field experience, IT skills and business savvy. It also calls for close co-operation with the victim's IT staff and the cyber insurance provider, if any. Since the top goal of the ransomware target is operational continuity, it is critical to establish response groups that work effectively, in parallel, and in close communication. Progent offers the scope of IT skills and the depth of personnel to complement your network staff and recover your network environment quickly and affordably.

Services offered by Progent's ransomware settlement negotiation experts include:

• Determining the type of ransomware involved in the assault
• Making contact with the hacker
• Assessing the likelihood of recovery
• Testing the threat actor's decryption tool
• Deciding on an acceptable settlement payment with the ransomware victim and the insurance provider
• Establishing a settlement and schedule with the hacker
• Checking accordance with anti-money laundering sanctions
• Carrying out the crypto-currency transfer to the hacker
• Acquiring, learning, and operating the TA's decryption utility
• If needed, contacting the TA for technical help with the decryption utility

• Quarantining infected endpoints and data stores to arrest the spread of the assault
• Making digital copies of every infected server and endpoint and data store to allow forensics in parallel with restoration
• Installing anti-virus protection to all clean endpoints
• Recovering data from air-gapped backups or uncompromised endpoints
• Creating a pristine environment
• Mapping and reconnecting datastores to reflect exactly their pre-encryption condition

Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to extorting payment for a decryption utility, current strains of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, and Nephilim often try to exfiltrate files. Hackers are then able to require a separate settlement for not publishing this information or selling it. Unfortunately, there is no method to prove that stolen files have been totally erased by the TA. In fact, in numerous instances the threat actor has little say over who can access the stolen files. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the necessity of seeking the advice of legal counsel, conducting an audit on which files were stolen, and sending the required notifications to affected entities. Generally, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.

Progent's Qualifications
Progent has provided remote and onsite IT services across the U.S. for more than two decades and has earned Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's roster of subject matter experts includes professionals who have been awarded advanced certifications in foundation technologies such as Cisco networking, VMware virtualization, and popular Linux distros. Progent's cybersecurity consultants have earned internationally recognized certifications including CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, CRISC, and CMMC 2.0. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also has guidance in financial management and ERP applications. This scope of expertise gives Progent the ability to identify and integrate the undamaged parts of your information system following a ransomware assault and reconstruct them quickly into an operational system. Progent has worked with leading insurance providers including Chubb to help businesses clean up after ransomware attacks.

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