Ransomware Solutions Services

Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Services in New Haven
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with attackers. Reaching an optimum settlement is a complicated activity that calls for a mix of field experience, IT knowledge and business acumen. It also calls for working closely with the ransomware victim's IT staff and the insurance carrier, if there is one. Since the top goal of the ransomware victim is operational continuity, it is critical to deploy response groups that operate efficiently, concurrently, and with intimate collaboration. Progent has the breadth of IT knowledge and the depth of personnel to supplement your network staff and restore your network environment rapidly and affordably.

Support provided by Progent's ransomware settlement negotiation team include:

• Determining the type of ransomware used in the assault
• Making contact with the hacker persona
• Evaluating the likelihood of recovery
• Testing the hacker's decryption tool
• Deciding on an acceptable settlement amount with the victim and the cyber insurance carrier
• Establishing a settlement amount and timeline with the threat actor
• Verifying compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) laws
• Overseeing the crypto-currency payment to the TA
• Receiving, reviewing, and using the TA's decryption utility
• If necessary, contacting the TA for technical assistance with the decryptor utility

• Isolating infected endpoints and data stores to prevent further spread of the assault
• Creating replicas of each compromised server and endpoint and data store to allow forensics without interfering with recovery
• Adding anti-virus agents to all virus-free endpoints
• Salvaging data from air-gapped restores or unscathed machines
• Building a pristine environment
• Mapping and reconnecting drives to match precisely their pre-encryption state

Paying Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond demanding money for a decryption utility, modern variants of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, and Egregor commonly try to exfiltrate information. TAs are then able to demand an additional settlement for not posting this information or selling it. Sadly, there is no method to prove that stolen data have been totally deleted by the hacker. Actually, in many cases the TA has little control over the disposition of the data. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the need for engaging the guidance of privacy attorneys, conducting an audit on which data were stolen, and carrying out the required notifications to affected entities. In general, paying an exfiltration ransom is a waste.

Progent's Qualifications
Progent has provided online and onsite network services throughout the U.S. for more than 20 years and has earned Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's roster of SMEs includes consultants who have been awarded high-level certifications in core technologies such as Cisco infrastructure, VMware virtualization, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's data security experts have earned prestigious certifications including CISM, CISSP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (Refer to Progent's certifications). Progent also offers top-tier support in financial management and ERP application software. This scope of expertise gives Progent the ability to salvage and integrate the surviving pieces of your network after a ransomware attack and reconstruct them quickly into an operational system. Progent has worked with leading insurance carriers like Chubb to help businesses clean up after ransomware assaults.

Contact Progent about Crypto-Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Services in New Haven
To get in touch with Progent about ransomware settlement expertise in New Haven, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.