Ransomware Solutions Consulting Services

Progent's Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Services in Brooklyn
Progent is experienced in negotiating ransomware settlements with threat actors. Reaching an optimum settlement is a complicated exercise that requires a mix of real-word experience, IT skills and business acumen. It also calls for close co-operation with the cyber-extortion target's IT team and the cyber insurance provider, if any. Since the number one priority of the ransomware target is operational continuity, it is critical to deploy recovery teams that work efficiently, in parallel, and with intimate collaboration. Progent offers the breadth of IT knowledge and the depth of personnel to supplement your network staff and recover your network environment quickly and economically.

Services provided by Progent's ransomware settlement experts include:

• Establishing the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Identifying and contacting the hacker persona
• Evaluating the recovery risk
• Verifying the hacker's decryption tool
• Agreeing on a settlement with the victim and the cyber insurance carrier
• Establishing a settlement and timeline with the TA
• Confirming adherence to anti-money laundering sanctions
• Overseeing the crypto-currency payment to the hacker
• Acquiring, learning, and operating the hacker's decryptor tool
• If necessary, contacting the TA for technical assistance with the decryptor utility

• Isolating infected endpoints to prevent further progress of the assault
• Creating digital copies of each compromised device and data store to allow forensics in parallel with cleanup
• Installing anti-virus protection to all clean endpoints
• Restoring data from air-gapped restores or uncompromised machines
• Building a clean environment
• Remapping and reconnecting drives to reflect exactly their pre-encryption state

Paying Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond extorting money for a decryption tool, modern strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Netwalker, and Egregor commonly attempt to steal (or "exfiltrate") files. Hackers can then require a separate settlement for not publishing this information on the dark web. Unfortunately, there exists no way to prove that exfiltrated data have been totally deleted by the TA. Actually, in many cases the hacker has little control over who can access the stolen files. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the necessity of engaging the advice of privacy lawyers, performing an inventory of files were compromised, and sending the necessary notifications to impacted entities. In almost all cases, paying an exfiltration ransom is a waste.

Progent's Qualifications
Progent has delivered remote and onsite network services throughout the U.S. for over 20 years and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's team of SMEs includes consultants who have earned advanced certifications in core technology platforms such as Cisco networking, VMware virtualization, and popular Linux distros. Progent's data security experts have earned internationally recognized certifications such as CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (Refer to Progent's certifications). Progent also offers guidance in financial and ERP application software. This scope of skills allows Progent to salvage and integrate the surviving parts of your information system following a ransomware attack and reconstruct them rapidly into a functioning network. Progent has collaborated with leading cyber insurance carriers including Chubb to assist businesses recover from ransomware assaults.

Contact Progent about Ransomware Settlement Services in Brooklyn
To contact with Progent about crypto-ransomware settlement negotiation expertise in Brooklyn, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.