Allen Ransomware Defense and Recovery Services

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800

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Ransomware requires time to steal its way through a target network. For this reason, ransomware attacks are typically unleashed on weekends and at night, when IT personnel may be slower to recognize a penetration and are least able to organize a quick and coordinated response. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to manage inside a target's system, the longer it takes to recover basic operations and scrambled files and the more information can be stolen and posted to the dark web.

Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to guide you to take the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware assault by stopping the bleeding. Progent's online ransomware engineers can assist businesses in the Allen area to locate and isolate infected servers and endpoints and protect undamaged assets from being penetrated.

If your network has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Progent's Ransomware Recovery Expertise Offered in Allen
Modern variants of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Netwalker, and Nephilim encrypt online data and attack any available system restores and backups. Files synched to the cloud can also be corrupted. For a vulnerable network, this can make automated recovery almost impossible and basically knocks the IT system back to square one. So-called Threat Actors (TAs), the hackers responsible for ransomware attack, insist on a ransom payment in exchange for the decryption tools required to unlock scrambled data. Ransomware assaults also try to steal (or "exfiltrate") information and TAs demand an additional ransom in exchange for not publishing this information or selling it. Even if you are able to restore your system to a tolerable date in time, exfiltration can pose a big problem according to the sensitivity of the downloaded data.

The recovery work after a ransomware penetration involves several distinct stages, the majority of which can be performed concurrently if the recovery workgroup has enough members with the required skill sets.

• Quarantine: This time-critical initial step requires blocking the lateral progress of the attack across your IT system. The longer a ransomware attack is permitted to run unrestricted, the more complex and more expensive the restoration effort. Because of this, Progent keeps a round-the-clock Ransomware Hotline monitored by seasoned ransomware response experts. Quarantine processes include cutting off infected endpoint devices from the network to restrict the spread, documenting the IT system, and protecting entry points.
• System continuity: This involves restoring the IT system to a minimal useful level of capability with the shortest possible downtime. This process is usually the top priority for the victims of the ransomware assault, who often perceive it to be a life-or-death issue for their business. This activity also requires the broadest array of IT skills that span domain controllers, DHCP servers, physical and virtual machines, desktops, notebooks and mobile phones, databases, office and line-of-business apps, network topology, and protected remote access management. Progent's ransomware recovery team uses state-of-the-art collaboration tools to organize the complex restoration process. Progent appreciates the importance of working rapidly, tirelessly, and in concert with a client's managers and IT group to prioritize tasks and to get vital resources on line again as quickly as possible.
• Data restoration: The work necessary to restore data damaged by a ransomware attack depends on the condition of the systems, how many files are encrypted, and what recovery methods are needed. Ransomware assaults can take down key databases which, if not properly shut down, may have to be rebuilt from the beginning. This can apply to DNS and AD databases. Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server rely on Active Directory, and many manufacturing and other business-critical applications depend on SQL Server. Often some detective work could be needed to find clean data. For example, undamaged OST files may exist on staff PCs and notebooks that were not connected during the ransomware assault. Progent's ProSight Data Protection Services offer Altaro VM Backup tools to protect against ransomware by leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage. This produces tamper-proof backup data that cannot be erased or modified by any user including root users.
• Setting up advanced antivirus/ransomware defense: Progent's Active Security Monitoring incorporates SentinelOne's behavioral analysis technology to offer small and medium-sized businesses the advantages of the identical anti-virus tools implemented by some of the world's biggest corporations including Walmart, Visa, and Salesforce. By delivering in-line malware filtering, classification, containment, recovery and analysis in a single integrated platform, Progent's ASM reduces TCO, simplifies management, and expedites recovery. SentinelOne's next-generation endpoint protection (NGEP) built into in Progent's Active Security Monitoring was ranked by Gartner Group as the industry's "most visionary Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)." Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Read about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense with SentinelOne technology.
• Negotiation with the threat actor (TA): Progent has experience negotiating ransom settlements with threat actors. This calls for close co-operation with the ransomware victim and the insurance carrier, if there is one. Services consist of determining the type of ransomware used in the assault; identifying and establishing communications the hacker; testing decryption capabilities; budgeting a settlement amount with the ransomware victim and the insurance carrier; negotiating a settlement amount and schedule with the hacker; checking compliance with anti-money laundering sanctions; overseeing the crypto-currency transfer to the TA; acquiring, learning, and operating the decryption tool; debugging failed files; building a pristine environment; mapping and reconnecting datastores to match precisely their pre-encryption state; and reprovisioning computers and software services.
• Forensics: This activity is aimed at discovering the ransomware attack's storyline across the targeted network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware attack travelled through the network assists you to evaluate the impact and highlights vulnerabilities in security policies or work habits that should be corrected to avoid future breaches. Forensics entails the examination of all logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to check for variations. Forensics is commonly assigned a high priority by the cyber insurance provider. Since forensics can take time, it is critical that other important recovery processes like business resumption are pursued in parallel. Progent has a large roster of IT and security experts with the skills required to carry out activities for containment, business resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensic analysis.

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