Ransomware Solutions Consultants

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Services in Fort Myers
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with adversaries. Negotiating an acceptable settlement is a complicated exercise that requires a mix of real-word experience, IT knowledge and business acumen. It also calls for working closely with the cyber-extortion target's IT team and the insurance provider, if any. Since the number one priority of the ransomware victim is fast recovery, it is critical to deploy recovery groups that work effectively, in parallel, and with intimate collaboration. Progent has the scope of technical knowledge and the depth of personnel to complement your network support team and recover your network environment rapidly and economically.

Services offered by Progent's ransomware negotiation team include:

• Establishing the type of ransomware used in the assault
• Making contact with the hacker persona
• Assessing the recovery risk
• Validating the TA's decryption tool
• Determining a settlement with the victim and the cyber insurance carrier
• Negotiating a settlement and timeline with the TA
• Checking accordance with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations
• Overseeing the crypto-currency disbursement to the hacker
• Acquiring, reviewing, and using the hacker's decryption tool
• If necessary, contacting the hacker for technical assistance with the decryptor tool

• Isolating affected endpoints to arrest the progress of the assault
• Creating replicas of each breached device and data store in order to perform forensics in parallel with restoration
• Adding A/V agents to all virus-free endpoints
• Salvaging files from offline restores or unscathed machines
• Creating a clean environment
• Remapping and reconnecting drives to reflect exactly their pre-attack condition

Settling Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to demanding money for a decryption tool, modern strains of crypto-ransomware like Ryuk, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, and Nephilim often try to exfiltrate files. TAs can then require an extra payment in exchange for not posting this information or selling it. Unfortunately, there is no method to be certain that stolen data have been totally erased by the threat actor. In fact, in numerous instances the TA has limited control over data custody. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not free you from the necessity of seeking the advice of legal counsel, performing an audit on which data were compromised, and sending the required notifications to impacted entities. In almost all cases, paying an exfiltration ransom is a waste.

Progent's Background
Progent has provided remote and onsite network services throughout the U.S. for over two decades and has earned Microsoft's Gold Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's team of subject matter experts (SMEs) includes consultants who have earned advanced certifications in foundation technologies including Cisco networking, VMware, and popular Linux distros. Progent's cybersecurity consultants have earned internationally recognized certifications such as CISM, CISSP-ISSAP, CRISC, and CMMC 2.0. (Refer to certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also has guidance in financial and ERP applications. This broad array of skills gives Progent the ability to salvage and consolidate the undamaged pieces of your network following a ransomware intrusion and rebuild them rapidly into a viable network. Progent has worked with top insurance carriers like Chubb to help businesses recover from ransomware attacks.

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