Ransomware Response Consulting Experts

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Services in Manhattan Beach
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with threat actors. Reaching an optimum settlement is a complicated exercise that calls for a combination of real-word experience, IT skills and business savvy. It also demands close co-operation with the victim's IT team and the insurance carrier, if there is one. Since the top goal of the ransomware victim is operational continuity, it is vital to deploy recovery groups that work efficiently, in parallel, and with intimate collaboration. Progent has the breadth of IT skills 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 settlement negotiation experts include:

• Determining the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• making contact with the hacker
• Assessing the likelihood of recovery
• Testing the hacker's decryption capabilities
• Agreeing on a settlement range with the victim and the cyber insurance carrier
• Establishing a settlement and schedule with the hacker
• Checking compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) sanctions
• Overseeing the crypto-currency transfer to the TA
• Receiving, learning, and operating the threat actor's decryption utility
• If necessary, contacting the TA for technical assistance with the decryption utility

• Quarantining affected endpoints to arrest the spread of the attack
• Making digital copies of every infected server and endpoint and data store in order to perform forensics in parallel with restoration
• Installing anti-virus agents to all virus-free endpoints
• Restoring data from offline backups or unscathed endpoints
• Creating a pristine environment
• Mapping and connecting drives to match precisely their pre-attack state

Settling Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to demanding payment for a decryption utility, current variants of ransomware such as Ryuk, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, and Egregor commonly try to exfiltrate information. Hackers are then able to require a separate settlement in exchange for not posting this data or selling it. Sadly, there is no way to prove that stolen data have been completely deleted by the TA. Actually, in many instances the threat actor has limited say over where the information ends up. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not free you from the necessity of seeking the guidance of privacy attorneys, conducting an audit on which files were stolen, and carrying out the necessary notifications to impacted entities. In almost all cases, paying an exfiltration ransom is a waste.

Progent's Qualifications
Progent has delivered remote and on-premises IT services across the U.S. for more than two decades and has been awarded Microsoft's Gold Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's roster of SMEs includes consultants who have been awarded high-level certifications in core technologies including Cisco infrastructure, VMware, and major Linux distros. Progent's data security consultants have earned internationally recognized certifications such as CISA, CISSP, and GIAC. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also offers guidance in financial management and Enterprise Resource Planning application software. This scope of skills gives Progent the ability to salvage and integrate the surviving pieces of your information system after a ransomware assault and rebuild them quickly into a viable system. Progent has collaborated with top insurance carriers like Chubb to assist organizations recover from ransomware attacks.

Contact Progent about Crypto-Ransomware Settlement Expertise in Manhattan Beach
To get in touch with Progent about ransomware settlement guidance in Manhattan Beach, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.