Ransomware Solutions Services

Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Consulting in Salinas
Progent is experienced in negotiating ransomware settlements with attackers. Reaching an optimum settlement is a complex activity that calls for a combination of field experience, technical knowledge and business acumen. It also calls for working closely with the ransomware victim's IT team and the cyber insurance provider, if any. Because the top goal of the ransomware victim is operational continuity, it is vital to establish response groups that work effectively, in parallel, and in close communication. Progent has the scope of technical skills and the depth of experts to supplement your network staff and restore your network rapidly and affordably.

Support offered by Progent's ransomware settlement team include:

• Determining the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Making contact with the hacker persona
• Evaluating the likelihood of recovery
• Validating the TA's decryption capabilities
• Determining a settlement amount with the victim and the cyber insurance provider
• Negotiating a settlement amount and timeline with the threat actor
• Confirming accordance with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations
• Overseeing the crypto-currency disbursement to the hacker
• Acquiring, learning, and operating the TA's decryption mechanism
• If necessary, contacting the TA for assistance with the decryption utility

• Isolating affected endpoints and data stores to prevent further progress of the attack
• Making replicas of every infected device and data store to allow forensics without interfering with restoration
• Adding A/V agents to all virus-free endpoints
• Salvaging files from air-gapped restores or unscathed endpoints
• Creating a clean environment
• Mapping and connecting datastores to reflect precisely their pre-encryption condition

Settling Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to demanding money for a decryption tool, current variants of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, DopplePaymer, and Nephilim commonly attempt to exfiltrate information. Hackers are then able to demand a separate payment for not posting this data on the dark web. Sadly, there exists no method to prove that exfiltrated files have been completely deleted by the hacker. In fact, in many cases the threat actor has limited say over where the information ends up. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the necessity of engaging the advice of legal counsel, performing an audit on which files were taken, and carrying out the required alerts to affected entities. Generally, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.

Progent's Qualifications
Progent has delivered remote and on-premises IT services throughout the United States for more than two decades and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's team of subject matter experts includes consultants who have earned advanced certifications in core technologies such as Cisco networking, VMware, and popular Linux distros. Progent's cybersecurity consultants have earned prestigious certifications including CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, CRISC, and CMMC 2.0. (Refer to Progent's certifications). Progent also has guidance in financial and Enterprise Resource Planning application software. This breadth of skills gives Progent the ability to identify and consolidate the undamaged pieces of your information system after a ransomware assault and reconstruct them quickly into an operational network. Progent has worked with leading insurance carriers like Chubb to assist organizations clean up after ransomware assaults.

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