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Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Consulting in Chattanooga
Progent is experienced in negotiating ransomware settlements with attackers. Reaching an optimum settlement is a complex exercise that requires a combination of field experience, technical skills and business acumen. It also demands working closely with the cyber-extortion target's IT team and the cyber insurance provider, if any. Since the number one priority of the ransomware victim is operational continuity, it is vital to deploy response teams that operate efficiently, in parallel, and in close communication. Progent offers the scope of IT knowledge and the depth of experts to supplement your IT staff and recover your network quickly and economically.
Services provided by Progent's ransomware negotiation experts include:
- Establishing the kind of ransomware used in the assault
- Making contact with the hacker
- Assessing the recovery risk
- Validating the TA's decryption tool
- Determining a settlement amount with the victim and the cyber insurance carrier
- Establishing a settlement amount and schedule with the threat actor
- Confirming compliance with anti-money laundering regulations
- Overseeing the crypto-currency disbursement to the TA
- Acquiring, learning, and operating the TA's decryption tool
- If necessary, contacting the threat actor for assistance with the decryptor tool
- Quarantining affected endpoints to arrest the progress of the assault
- Creating replicas of every breached server and endpoint and data store in order to perform forensics in parallel with cleanup
- Adding anti-virus protection to all virus-free endpoints
- Salvaging data from air-gapped backups or uncompromised endpoints
- Creating a pristine recovery environment
- Mapping and reconnecting datastores to match precisely their pre-encryption state
Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to extorting payment for a decryption tool, modern strains of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, DopplePaymer, and Nephilim commonly try to steal (or "exfiltrate") files. Hackers are then able to demand an extra ransom in exchange for not divulging this data on the dark web. Unfortunately, there exists no method to guarantee that stolen files have been totally erased by the TA. In fact, in numerous instances the threat actor has limited control over where the information ends up. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the need for seeking the advice of privacy lawyers, conducting an audit on which data were stolen, and performing the required alerts to impacted entities. In almost all cases, paying an exfiltration ransom is a waste.
Progent's Qualifications
Progent has delivered remote and on-premises IT services throughout the U.S. for over 20 years and has earned Microsoft's Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's roster of subject matter experts (SMEs) includes professionals who have been awarded high-level certifications in foundation technology platforms such as Cisco infrastructure, VMware virtualization, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's cybersecurity experts have earned industry-recognized certifications including CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also offers guidance in financial and ERP software. This broad array of expertise allows Progent to identify and integrate the undamaged parts of your IT environment following a ransomware attack and reconstruct them rapidly into a viable network. Progent has worked with top cyber insurance providers including Chubb to help organizations recover from ransomware attacks.
Contact Progent about Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Guidance in Chattanooga
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