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Ransomware requires time to steal its way across a target network. For this reason, ransomware attacks are typically unleashed on weekends and at night, when IT personnel are likely to be slower to recognize a breach and are less able to mount a quick and forceful defense. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to achieve inside a target's system, the more time it takes to restore core operations and scrambled files and the more information can be stolen and posted to the dark web.

Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to assist you to complete the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware attack by stopping the bleeding. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can help businesses in the Naples area to locate and isolate breached devices and guard clean assets from being compromised.

If your system has been breached by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Progent's Ransomware Response Expertise Offered in Naples
Current variants of ransomware such as Ryuk, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, and Nephilim encrypt online files and attack any accessible system restores and backups. Data synchronized to the cloud can also be corrupted. For a poorly defended environment, this can make automated restoration almost impossible and basically throws the datacenter back to square one. So-called Threat Actors (TAs), the hackers responsible for ransomware attack, insist on a ransom fee for the decryptors required to recover scrambled files. Ransomware attacks also attempt to steal (or "exfiltrate") information and hackers require an extra settlement for not posting this information on the dark web. Even if you are able to restore your system to a tolerable point in time, exfiltration can be a big problem depending on the nature of the stolen data.

The recovery work after a ransomware attack involves a number of distinct stages, most of which can be performed in parallel if the response team has a sufficient number of members with the necessary skill sets.

• Containment: This urgent initial response involves arresting the sideways spread of the attack across your network. The longer a ransomware assault is allowed to go unrestricted, the longer and more costly the recovery process. Because of this, Progent keeps a 24x7 Ransomware Hotline staffed by veteran ransomware recovery engineers. Quarantine activities consist of cutting off infected endpoint devices from the rest of network to restrict the contagion, documenting the IT system, and protecting entry points.
• System continuity: This covers bringing back the network to a basic useful degree of functionality with the least delay. This effort is typically at the highest level of urgency for the targets of the ransomware attack, who often perceive it to be an existential issue for their business. This activity also requires the widest array of IT abilities that cover domain controllers, DHCP servers, physical and virtual machines, desktops, notebooks and mobile phones, databases, productivity and mission-critical apps, network architecture, and protected endpoint access management. Progent's recovery experts use state-of-the-art workgroup tools to organize the complicated restoration effort. Progent appreciates the urgency of working quickly, continuously, and in concert with a client's managers and IT group to prioritize tasks and to put essential services on line again as fast as possible.
• Data recovery: The effort necessary to restore files damaged by a ransomware assault depends on the condition of the systems, how many files are encrypted, and which restore techniques are required. Ransomware attacks can take down key databases which, if not gracefully shut down, may have to be reconstructed from the beginning. This can include DNS and Active Directory databases. Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server depend on AD, and many ERP and other business-critical platforms depend on Microsoft SQL Server. Some detective work may be needed to find clean data. For example, non-encrypted Outlook Email Offline Folder Files may exist on staff PCs and laptops that were not connected at the time of the attack. Progent's ProSight Data Protection Services offer Altaro VM Backup tools to protect against ransomware attacks by leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage. This creates tamper-proof backup data that cannot be erased or modified by any user including administrators or root users.
• Setting up modern antivirus/ransomware defense: Progent's Active Security Monitoring utilizes SentinelOne's machine learning technology to give small and medium-sized businesses the benefits of the identical anti-virus technology deployed by many of the world's largest corporations such as Netflix, Citi, and NASDAQ. By delivering real-time malware blocking, detection, mitigation, repair and analysis in a single integrated platform, Progent's ASM lowers TCO, simplifies management, and expedites operational continuity. SentinelOne's next-generation endpoint protection engine built into in Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring was listed by Gartner Group as the "most visionary Endpoint Protection Platform." Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Read about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery with SentinelOne technology.
• Negotiating a settlement with the hacker Progent has experience negotiating ransom settlements with hackers. This requires close co-operation with the victim and the insurance provider, if any. Services include determining the type of ransomware used in the attack; identifying and establishing communications the hacker persona; testing decryption tool; budgeting a settlement with the ransomware victim and the cyber insurance provider; negotiating a settlement and schedule with the hacker; confirming adherence to anti-money laundering (AML) regulations; overseeing the crypto-currency payment to the hacker; receiving, learning, and operating the decryptor utility; debugging failed files; building a clean environment; mapping and reconnecting datastores to match precisely their pre-attack condition; and restoring machines and services.
• Forensics: This activity involves uncovering the ransomware attack's storyline throughout the targeted network from beginning to end. This audit trail of the way a ransomware attack progressed within the network assists you to assess the damage and highlights weaknesses in security policies or work habits that should be rectified to avoid later break-ins. Forensics involves the review of all logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to check for changes. Forensics is commonly assigned a high priority by the insurance provider. Since forensics can take time, it is vital that other key recovery processes like operational resumption are performed concurrently. Progent maintains a large roster of information technology and cybersecurity experts with the knowledge and experience required to carry out activities for containment, operational continuity, and data recovery without interfering with forensics.

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