Ransomware Solutions Consulting Experts

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Services in Jersey City
Progent is experienced in negotiating ransomware settlements with threat actors (TAs). Negotiating an optimum settlement is a complicated exercise that requires a mix of real-word experience, IT skills and business savvy. It also demands close co-operation with the cyber-extortion target's IT team and the insurance provider, if any. Because the top goal of the ransomware victim is operational continuity, it is critical to establish response groups that operate efficiently, in parallel, and in close communication. Progent offers the scope of IT knowledge and the depth of experts to supplement your network staff and restore your network rapidly and economically.

Services provided by Progent's ransomware negotiation experts include:

• Establishing the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• identifying and contacting the hacker persona
• Evaluating the recovery risk
• Testing the hacker's decryption capabilities
• Determining a settlement payment with the ransomware victim and the cyber insurance carrier
• Establishing a settlement amount and schedule with the threat actor
• Checking adherence to anti-money laundering sanctions
• Overseeing the crypto-currency transfer to the hacker
• Receiving, reviewing, and operating the hacker's decryption utility
• If needed, contacting the hacker for technical help with the decryption tool

• Quarantining infected endpoints to prevent further spread of the assault
• Making digital copies of every infected server and endpoint and data store in order to perform forensics in parallel with restoration
• Adding A/V protection to all clean endpoints
• Salvaging data from air-gapped restores or unscathed machines
• Creating a clean recovery environment
• Mapping and connecting drives to match exactly their pre-attack state

Settling Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to extorting payment for a decryption utility, modern variants of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, DopplePaymer, and Nephilim often attempt to exfiltrate information. Hackers can then require an extra settlement in exchange for not divulging this information on the dark web. Sadly, there is no way to prove that exfiltrated files have been totally erased by the TA. Actually, in numerous instances the threat actor has limited say over who can access the stolen files. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the need for getting the advice of privacy attorneys, conducting an inventory of data were taken, and performing the mandated alerts to affected entities. In almost all cases, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.

Progent's Background
Progent has provided remote and onsite network services throughout the United States for over two decades and has been awarded Microsoft's Gold Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's team of subject matter experts includes consultants who have been awarded advanced certifications in core technologies such as Cisco networking, VMware, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's data security consultants have earned internationally recognized certifications such as CISM, CISSP-ISSAP, and GIAC. (Refer to certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also offers top-tier support in financial and Enterprise Resource Planning application software. This breadth of skills allows Progent to identify and consolidate the surviving pieces of your information system after a ransomware intrusion and reconstruct them rapidly into a viable network. Progent has collaborated with top insurance carriers like Chubb to help businesses recover from ransomware attacks.

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