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Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Services in Manchester
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with hackers. Negotiating an acceptable settlement is a complex exercise that requires a mix of real-word experience, technical skills and business acumen. It also demands working closely with the ransomware victim's IT staff and the insurance carrier, if there is one. Because the number one goal of the ransomware target is operational continuity, it is vital to establish recovery teams that work efficiently, concurrently, and with intimate collaboration. Progent offers the breadth of IT knowledge and the deep bench of personnel to complement your IT staff and restore your network environment quickly and affordably.

Services available from Progent's ransomware settlement team include:

• Establishing the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Identifying and communicating with the hacker
• Evaluating the likelihood of recovery
• Testing the hacker's decryption tool
• Deciding on an acceptable settlement payment with the victim and the cyber insurance carrier
• Negotiating a settlement amount and timeline with the hacker
• Confirming compliance with anti-money laundering sanctions
• Managing the crypto-currency payment to the TA
• Receiving, reviewing, and using the hacker's decryption utility
• If necessary, contacting the threat actor for assistance with the decryptor tool

• Isolating affected endpoints to arrest the progress of the attack
• Making replicas of every breached server and endpoint and data store in order to perform forensics in parallel with restoration
• Adding A/V agents to all virus-free endpoints
• Restoring data from air-gapped backups or uncompromised endpoints
• Creating a clean recovery environment
• Remapping and connecting drives to match precisely their pre-encryption condition

Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond demanding money for a decryption utility, modern variants of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, and Egregor often attempt to exfiltrate files. TAs can then demand an extra payment in exchange for not divulging this data or selling it. Unfortunately, there exists no way to be certain that exfiltrated data have been completely deleted by the threat actor. Actually, in many cases the hacker has little control over data custody. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not free you from the need for engaging the advice of privacy lawyers, performing an audit on which data were stolen, and performing the necessary alerts to affected entities. Generally, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.

Progent's Qualifications
Progent has delivered online and on-premises IT services across the U.S. for more than 20 years and has been awarded Microsoft's Gold Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's team of SMEs includes professionals who have earned high-level certifications in core technologies such as Cisco infrastructure, VMware virtualization, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's cybersecurity consultants have earned internationally recognized certifications including CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, and GIAC. (Refer to certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also has top-tier support in financial management and ERP applications. This broad array of skills allows Progent to identify and integrate the undamaged pieces of your information system following a ransomware assault and reconstruct them rapidly into a viable network. Progent has collaborated with top cyber insurance providers including Chubb to assist organizations recover from ransomware assaults.

Contact Progent about Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Guidance in Manchester
To get in touch with Progent about crypto-ransomware settlement services in Manchester, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.