Ransomware Solutions Consulting Experts

Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Services in Naples
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with adversaries. Negotiating an acceptable settlement is a complicated exercise that requires a mix of field experience, IT knowledge and business savvy. It also calls for working closely with the victim's IT team and the insurance carrier, if there is one. Because the top goal of the ransomware victim is operational continuity, it is critical to establish response groups that work effectively, in parallel, and in close communication. Progent has the breadth of IT knowledge and the depth of personnel to complement your IT staff and recover your network environment rapidly and economically.

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

• Establishing the type of ransomware used in the attack
• Identifying and contacting the hacker
• Evaluating the likelihood of recovery
• Verifying the TA's decryption tool
• Budgeting a settlement payment with the ransomware victim and the cyber insurance carrier
• Negotiating a settlement amount and schedule with the threat actor
• Verifying accordance with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations
• Managing the crypto-currency disbursement to the TA
• Acquiring, learning, and using the threat actor's decryptor mechanism
• If necessary, contacting the TA for technical assistance with the decryptor tool

• Isolating infected endpoints and data stores to prevent further progress of the assault
• Making replicas of every breached device and data store to allow forensics in parallel with restoration
• Adding anti-virus agents to all clean endpoints
• Recovering files from offline restores or unscathed endpoints
• Creating a clean environment
• Mapping and reconnecting datastores to reflect precisely their pre-encryption state

Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond demanding payment for a decryption tool, modern strains of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, and Nephilim commonly try to exfiltrate files. TAs are then able to demand an additional settlement for not publishing this data or selling it. Sadly, there exists no way to prove that exfiltrated data have been totally erased by the hacker. Actually, in many instances the TA has limited say over where the information ends up. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the necessity of seeking the guidance of privacy lawyers, performing an investigation into which files were compromised, and performing the required alerts to impacted entities. In almost all cases, paying an exfiltration ransom is a waste.

Progent's Background
Progent has delivered remote and onsite network services throughout 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 SMEs includes consultants who have been awarded high-level certifications in core technology platforms such as Cisco networking, VMware virtualization, and major Linux distros. Progent's cybersecurity experts have earned industry-recognized certifications including CISM, CISSP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also has guidance in financial and ERP application software. This broad array of skills gives Progent the ability to identify and consolidate the surviving pieces of your IT environment after a ransomware intrusion and rebuild them rapidly into an operational system. Progent has worked with leading insurance carriers like Chubb to help organizations recover from ransomware assaults.

Contact Progent about Crypto-Ransomware Settlement Services in Naples
To contact with Progent about crypto-ransomware settlement negotiation services in Naples, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.