New Haven Ransomware Defense and Cleanup Services

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800

24x7 Online Help from a Top-tier Ransomware Engineer
Ransomware needs time to work its way across a network. Because of this, ransomware assaults are typically unleashed on weekends and at night, when IT personnel are likely to be slower to recognize a penetration and are least able to organize a quick and forceful response. The more lateral progress ransomware is able to manage within a victim's system, the more time it will require to restore basic operations and scrambled files and the more information can be stolen and posted to the dark web.

Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to help organizations to complete the urgent first phase in responding to a ransomware attack by stopping the bleeding. Progent's online ransomware engineer can assist organizations in the New Haven area to locate and quarantine breached devices and guard clean resources from being compromised.

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

Progent's Ransomware Response Services Offered in New Haven
Current strains of ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Netwalker, and Nephilim encrypt online files and invade any available backups. Files synched to the cloud can also be corrupted. For a poorly defended environment, this can make system recovery nearly impossible and basically sets the IT system back to square one. Threat Actors, the hackers behind a ransomware assault, insist on a settlement fee in exchange for the decryption tools required to recover scrambled files. Ransomware assaults also try to exfiltrate files and TAs demand an extra ransom for not publishing this information or selling it. Even if you can rollback your network to a tolerable date in time, exfiltration can pose a major problem according to the sensitivity of the downloaded data.

The recovery work subsequent to ransomware penetration involves a number of crucial phases, most of which can be performed concurrently if the response team has a sufficient number of members with the necessary experience.

• Containment: This time-critical initial response requires arresting the lateral spread of ransomware across your network. The longer a ransomware assault is allowed to run unchecked, the more complex and more costly the restoration effort. Recognizing this, Progent maintains a round-the-clock Ransomware Hotline monitored by veteran ransomware response experts. Quarantine activities include cutting off affected endpoints from the network to restrict the contagion, documenting the IT system, and protecting entry points.
• System continuity: This covers restoring the IT system to a minimal acceptable degree of functionality with the least delay. This process is typically the top priority for the targets of the ransomware attack, who often see it as a life-or-death issue for their business. This project also requires the broadest range of technical abilities that cover domain controllers, DHCP servers, physical and virtual servers, PCs, laptops and mobile phones, databases, productivity and line-of-business applications, network architecture, and secure remote access management. Progent's ransomware recovery team uses state-of-the-art collaboration platforms to organize the multi-faceted recovery process. Progent understands the urgency of working rapidly, tirelessly, and in unison with a client's management and IT group to prioritize tasks and to get vital resources back online as quickly as feasible.
• Data restoration: The effort required to recover files impacted by a ransomware assault depends on the state of the network, how many files are encrypted, and what restore techniques are needed. Ransomware attacks can destroy key databases which, if not properly closed, might need to be rebuilt from scratch. This can apply to DNS and Active Directory (AD) databases. Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server rely on AD, and many financial and other business-critical platforms depend on Microsoft SQL Server. Often some detective work could be required to locate undamaged data. For example, non-encrypted Outlook Email Offline Folder Files may exist on employees' PCs and notebooks that were off line during the ransomware assault.
• Implementing modern AV/ransomware defense: Progent's Active Security Monitoring offers small and medium-sized businesses the benefits of the same anti-virus technology implemented by many of the world's biggest corporations such as Netflix, Visa, and NASDAQ. By delivering real-time malware blocking, classification, mitigation, recovery and forensics in a single integrated platform, Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring reduces TCO, simplifies management, and promotes rapid recovery. The next-generation endpoint protection engine incorporated in Progent's Active Security Monitoring was listed by Gartner Group as the industry's "most visionary Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)." Read about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.
• Negotiation with the hacker Progent is experienced in negotiating settlements with threat actors. This calls for working closely with the ransomware victim and the insurance carrier, if any. Services consist of determining the type of ransomware involved in the assault; identifying and making contact with the hacker; verifying decryption tool; budgeting a settlement with the victim and the insurance carrier; establishing a settlement and schedule with the hacker; checking compliance with anti-money laundering sanctions; carrying out the crypto-currency payment to the hacker; acquiring, learning, and operating the decryptor tool; debugging decryption problems; creating a clean environment; mapping and reconnecting datastores to reflect exactly their pre-attack state; and recovering computers and software services.
• Forensics: This process involves discovering the ransomware assault's progress across the targeted network from beginning to end. This audit trail of the way a ransomware attack progressed within the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the impact and highlights weaknesses in security policies or processes that should be corrected to prevent later breaches. Forensics entails the review of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object, AD, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to check for changes. Forensics is commonly given a top priority by the insurance carrier. Because forensics can be time consuming, it is vital that other key recovery processes like business resumption are executed in parallel. Progent has a large roster of IT and security professionals with the skills required to carry out activities for containment, business continuity, and data recovery without disrupting forensics.

Contact Progent for Ransomware System Restoration Consulting Services in New Haven
For ransomware system recovery consulting services in the New Haven metro area, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.