Ransomware Response Consulting Services

Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Consulting in Beverly Hills
Progent is experienced in negotiating ransomware settlements with hackers. Reaching an optimum settlement is a complex activity that calls for a mix of real-word experience, technical skills and business savvy. It also demands working closely with the ransomware victim's IT staff and the cyber insurance carrier, if there is one. Since the number one goal of the ransomware victim is fast recovery, it is vital to deploy recovery groups that work efficiently, in parallel, and with intimate collaboration. Progent offers the scope of IT knowledge and the depth of experts to complement your IT staff and recover your network rapidly and affordably.

Services offered by Progent's ransomware settlement team include:

• Determining the type of ransomware involved in the attack
• Identifying and communicating with the hacker
• Assessing the likelihood of recovery
• Testing the hacker's decryption tool
• Deciding on an acceptable settlement with the ransomware victim and the insurance carrier
• Negotiating a settlement and schedule with the hacker
• Checking compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) sanctions
• Managing the crypto-currency disbursement to the TA
• Acquiring, learning, and operating the threat actor's decryptor utility
• If needed, contacting the threat actor for technical assistance with the decryptor tool

• Quarantining infected endpoints and data stores to arrest the spread of the assault
• Creating replicas of each infected device and data store to allow forensics in parallel with restoration
• Adding A/V protection to all virus-free endpoints
• Salvaging data from air-gapped restores or uncompromised endpoints
• Building a clean environment
• Remapping and reconnecting datastores to match precisely their pre-encryption condition

Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to demanding money for a decryption utility, current strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, and Egregor commonly try to exfiltrate files. Hackers can then require an extra settlement in exchange for not divulging this information or selling it. Sadly, there is no way to guarantee that exfiltrated data have been completely erased by the hacker. In fact, in many instances the threat actor has limited control about the disposition of the data. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the necessity of getting the guidance of legal counsel, performing an audit on which files were compromised, and carrying out the required notifications to impacted entities. In almost all cases, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.

Progent's Qualifications
Progent has delivered remote and onsite network services throughout the U.S. for more than two decades and has earned Microsoft's Gold Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's roster of subject matter experts includes professionals who have earned advanced certifications in foundation technology platforms such as Cisco infrastructure, VMware virtualization, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's cybersecurity experts have earned internationally recognized certifications including CISA, CISSP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (See Progent's certifications). Progent also has guidance in financial and ERP applications. This broad array of skills allows Progent to salvage and integrate the surviving parts of your IT environment after a ransomware assault and reconstruct them rapidly into an operational network. Progent has collaborated with top cyber insurance carriers like Chubb to assist organizations recover from ransomware attacks.

Contact Progent about Crypto-Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Expertise in Beverly Hills
To contact with Progent about crypto-ransomware settlement negotiation guidance in Beverly Hills, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.