Ransomware Solutions Consultants

Progent's Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Services in Hialeah
Progent is experienced in negotiating ransomware settlements with hackers. Reaching an acceptable settlement is a complex exercise that calls for a mix of real-word experience, IT skills and business acumen. It also requires working closely with the cyber-extortion target's IT team and the cyber insurance provider, if any. Because the number one goal of the ransomware target is fast recovery, it is vital to deploy recovery groups that operate effectively, in parallel, and with intimate collaboration. Progent has the breadth of technical knowledge and the depth of experts to complement your IT support team and recover your network environment rapidly and economically.

Services offered by Progent's ransomware negotiation team include:

• Determining the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• making contact with the hacker
• Evaluating the recovery risk
• Testing the hacker's decryption capabilities
• Deciding on an acceptable settlement amount with the victim and the cyber insurance carrier
• Negotiating a settlement and timeline with the threat actor
• Confirming accordance with anti-money laundering (AML) laws
• Overseeing the crypto-currency payment to the TA
• Acquiring, learning, and operating the hacker's decryptor tool
• If needed, contacting the hacker for technical assistance with the decryptor utility

• Quarantining infected endpoints and data stores to arrest the spread of the attack
• Making replicas of every breached server and endpoint and data store to allow forensics without interfering with cleanup
• Installing A/V agents to all clean endpoints
• Recovering files from air-gapped backups or unscathed endpoints
• Creating a pristine recovery environment
• Remapping and connecting drives to match exactly their pre-encryption state

Settling Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to extorting money for a decryption tool, modern strains of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, and Egregor commonly attempt to exfiltrate information. TAs can then demand an additional payment for not publishing this information or selling it. Sadly, there exists no method to prove that exfiltrated data have been totally deleted by the threat actor. Actually, in many instances the TA has limited control about where the information ends up. Paying an exfiltration ransom does not free you from the need for seeking the guidance of privacy lawyers, performing an audit on which files were taken, and carrying out the required notifications to affected entities. In almost all cases, paying an exfiltration ransom is a waste.

Progent's Qualifications
Progent has delivered online and on-premises IT services across the U.S. for over two decades and has been awarded Microsoft's Gold Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's roster of subject matter experts (SMEs) includes professionals who have been awarded high-level certifications in core technology platforms including Cisco networking, VMware, and major Linux distros. Progent's data security consultants have earned internationally recognized certifications including CISA, CISSP, and CRISC. (Refer to Progent's certifications). Progent also has guidance in financial management and Enterprise Resource Planning software. This breadth of expertise allows Progent to salvage and integrate the surviving pieces of your IT environment after a ransomware assault and rebuild them quickly into a viable system. Progent has worked with leading insurance providers like Chubb to assist organizations clean up after ransomware assaults.

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