Ransomware Response Consultants
Ransomware Negotiation Support
Overview of Progent's Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Services in Belo Horizonte
Progent is experienced in negotiating ransomware settlements with hackers. Reaching an optimum settlement is a complicated activity that calls for a mix of field experience, IT knowledge and business savvy. It also calls for close co-operation with the cyber-extortion target's IT team and the cyber insurance carrier, if any. Since the top goal of the ransomware target is fast recovery, it is critical to establish response groups that operate efficiently, concurrently, and in close communication. Progent offers the scope of IT skills and the depth of personnel to supplement your network staff and restore your network rapidly and affordably.
Services available from Progent's ransomware negotiation experts include:
- Determining the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
- Identifying and communicating with the hacker
- Assessing the recovery risk
- Testing the threat actor's decryption tool
- Agreeing on a settlement with the victim and the cyber insurance provider
- Negotiating a settlement and timeline with the hacker
- Checking compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) sanctions
- Carrying out the crypto-currency payment to the hacker
- Acquiring, reviewing, and using the hacker's decryption tool
- If necessary, contacting the threat actor for technical help with the decryptor utility
- Quarantining infected endpoints to prevent further spread of the attack
- Making replicas of every compromised device and data store in order to perform forensics in parallel with restoration
- Adding anti-virus protection to all virus-free endpoints
- Restoring data from air-gapped restores or uncompromised endpoints
- Building a clean recovery environment
- Remapping and connecting datastores to reflect exactly their pre-attack condition
Settling Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond demanding payment for a decryption utility, modern variants of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, DopplePaymer, and Nephilim commonly attempt to steal (or "exfiltrate") information. Hackers are then able to demand an additional settlement in exchange for not publishing this data on the dark web. Unfortunately, there is no way to prove that exfiltrated files have been totally erased by the threat actor. Actually, in many instances the threat actor has limited control about where the information ends up. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the need for seeking the guidance of privacy lawyers, conducting an inventory of data were stolen, and performing the mandated alerts to affected entities. Generally, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.
Progent's Background
Progent has delivered remote and onsite IT services across the United States for over 20 years and has earned Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's roster of subject matter experts (SMEs) includes consultants who have been awarded advanced certifications in core technologies including Cisco infrastructure, VMware virtualization, and major distributions of Linux. Progent's data security consultants have earned prestigious certifications including CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, CRISC, and CMMC 2.0. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also offers top-tier support in financial management and Enterprise Resource Planning application software. This scope of expertise allows Progent to identify and consolidate the undamaged parts of your IT environment after a ransomware attack and reconstruct them quickly into a viable system. Progent has worked with top insurance providers including Chubb to help businesses clean up after ransomware attacks.
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