Ransomware Solutions Consultants

Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Services in Bristol
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with adversaries. Negotiating an acceptable settlement is a complicated exercise that requires a combination of real-word experience, technical skills and business savvy. It also requires close co-operation with the victim's IT staff and the cyber insurance provider, if any. Because the number one priority of the ransomware victim is operational continuity, it is vital to establish recovery groups that operate efficiently, concurrently, and in close communication. Progent offers the breadth of technical skills and the depth of personnel to supplement your network support team and restore your network environment rapidly and affordably.

Support available from Progent's ransomware settlement negotiation team include:

• Determining the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Identifying and contacting the hacker persona
• Evaluating the recovery risk
• Verifying the TA's decryption capabilities
• Deciding on an acceptable settlement amount with the ransomware victim and the insurance carrier
• Establishing a settlement and timeline with the TA
• Confirming accordance with anti-money laundering regulations
• Managing the crypto-currency payment to the hacker
• Receiving, learning, and operating the threat actor's decryptor mechanism
• If needed, contacting the hacker for technical help with the decryption utility

• Isolating affected endpoints and data stores to prevent further spread of the assault
• Making replicas of each compromised server and endpoint and data store in order to perform forensics without interfering with restoration
• Adding anti-virus protection to all clean endpoints
• Restoring data from air-gapped backups or unscathed machines
• Creating a pristine recovery environment
• Remapping and reconnecting datastores to reflect exactly their pre-encryption condition

Paying Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to extorting payment for a decryption utility, current strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, and Egregor commonly try to exfiltrate files. TAs can then require an additional ransom for not divulging this information on the dark web. Unfortunately, there exists no way to prove that exfiltrated files have been totally erased by the threat actor. In fact, in numerous cases the threat actor has little control over where the information ends up. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the need for seeking the advice of privacy attorneys, performing an investigation into which data were compromised, and sending the mandated notifications to impacted entities. Generally, paying an exfiltration ransom is a waste.

Progent's Background
Progent has delivered online and onsite network services across the United States for more than two decades and has earned Microsoft's Gold Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's team of subject matter experts includes professionals who have earned high-level certifications in foundation technology platforms including Cisco networking, VMware virtualization, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's cybersecurity experts have earned internationally recognized certifications including CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, CRISC, and CMMC 2.0. (Refer to Progent's certifications). Progent also offers top-tier support in financial management and Enterprise Resource Planning software. This scope of expertise allows Progent to salvage and consolidate the undamaged pieces of your IT environment following a ransomware intrusion and reconstruct them quickly into a functioning system. Progent has worked with leading cyber insurance providers including Chubb to assist businesses recover from ransomware assaults.

Contact Progent about Crypto-Ransomware Settlement Guidance in Bristol
To contact with Progent about ransomware settlement guidance in Bristol, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.