Ransomware Solutions Consultants

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Services in Napa
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with threat actors. Negotiating an optimum settlement is a complicated activity that requires a mix of real-word experience, IT knowledge and business savvy. It also demands close co-operation with the cyber-extortion target's IT team and the insurance provider, if any. Since the top priority of the ransomware target is fast recovery, it is vital to deploy recovery groups that operate efficiently, concurrently, and in close communication. Progent offers the scope of IT knowledge and the deep bench of personnel to complement your network staff and recover your network environment quickly and economically.

Services provided by Progent's ransomware settlement experts include:

• Determining the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• making contact with the hacker
• Evaluating the likelihood of recovery
• Verifying the TA's decryption tool
• Determining a settlement amount with the victim and the cyber insurance provider
• Negotiating a settlement and timeline with the hacker
• Checking accordance with anti-money laundering (AML) sanctions
• Managing the crypto-currency payment to the TA
• Receiving, learning, and using the hacker's decryption utility
• If needed, contacting the TA for assistance with the decryption utility

• Quarantining infected endpoints to arrest the spread of the attack
• Creating digital copies of each breached server and endpoint and data store to allow forensics without interfering with cleanup
• Adding anti-virus agents to all virus-free endpoints
• Restoring files from air-gapped backups or uncompromised endpoints
• Creating a clean recovery environment
• Remapping and connecting datastores to match exactly their pre-attack state

Settling Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond demanding payment for a decryption tool, current variants of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, and Egregor commonly try to exfiltrate information. Hackers can then require an extra payment for not posting this information or selling it. Sadly, there is no method to guarantee that stolen data have been completely deleted by the hacker. Actually, in numerous instances the threat actor has limited say about who can access the stolen files. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not free you from the need for engaging the advice of privacy attorneys, performing an inventory of files were compromised, and carrying out the required notifications to impacted entities. In general, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.

Progent's Qualifications
Progent has provided online and on-premises IT services throughout the United States for more than 20 years 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 been awarded high-level certifications in core technology platforms such as Cisco networking, VMware, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's cybersecurity consultants have earned industry-recognized certifications including CISA, CISSP, and GIAC. (Refer to Progent's certifications). Progent also has top-tier support in financial and ERP application software. This breadth of skills allows Progent to salvage and consolidate the undamaged pieces of your IT environment after a ransomware attack and reconstruct them rapidly into a functioning system. Progent has worked with leading insurance carriers like Chubb to assist businesses recover from ransomware assaults.

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