Ransomware Response Consulting Experts

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Services in Manchester
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with threat actors. Reaching an optimum settlement is a complex exercise that requires a combination of field experience, IT skills and business savvy. It also calls for close co-operation with the cyber-extortion target's IT staff and the insurance carrier, if any. Because the number one priority of the ransomware victim is operational continuity, it is critical to deploy response groups that work effectively, in parallel, and in close communication. Progent offers the scope of technical knowledge and the deep bench of personnel to supplement your IT support team and recover your network environment quickly and economically.

Support provided by Progent's ransomware settlement negotiation team include:

• Determining the type of ransomware involved in the attack
• making contact with the hacker
• Assessing the likelihood of recovery
• Validating the hacker's decryption tool
• Agreeing on a settlement payment with the ransomware victim and the cyber insurance carrier
• Establishing a settlement amount and timeline with the TA
• Verifying adherence to anti-money laundering sanctions
• Overseeing the crypto-currency payment to the TA
• Acquiring, reviewing, and operating the hacker's decryption tool
• If needed, contacting the TA for assistance with the decryption utility

• Isolating affected endpoints and data stores to prevent further progress of the attack
• Making replicas of every infected server and endpoint and data store in order to perform forensics in parallel with cleanup
• Adding anti-virus agents to all virus-free endpoints
• Restoring files from air-gapped restores or uncompromised endpoints
• Creating a pristine recovery environment
• Mapping and connecting datastores to match exactly their pre-attack condition

Paying Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond extorting payment for a decryption tool, modern strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Netwalker, and Egregor often attempt to exfiltrate information. Hackers can then require a separate payment in exchange for not publishing this data on the dark web. Sadly, there exists no way to guarantee that stolen data have been totally erased by the TA. Actually, in numerous cases the threat actor 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 attorneys, performing an investigation into which files were taken, and performing the required alerts to affected entities. Generally, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.

Progent's Qualifications
Progent has provided remote 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 practice areas. Progent's roster of SMEs includes consultants who have earned high-level certifications in foundation technologies including Cisco infrastructure, VMware virtualization, and major Linux distros. Progent's cybersecurity consultants have earned industry-recognized certifications such as CISM, CISSP-ISSAP, and GIAC. (See Progent's certifications). Progent also has top-tier support in financial and Enterprise Resource Planning application software. This breadth of expertise allows Progent to salvage and consolidate the undamaged pieces of your information system after a ransomware intrusion and rebuild them quickly into a functioning network. Progent has worked with leading insurance providers including Chubb to assist businesses clean up after ransomware assaults.

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