Chicago Ransomware Defense and Remediation Consulting

Progent's Ransomware Protection and Recovery Solutions
Ransomware can seriously harm or even wipe out a business. Progent offers services services that marshal advanced machine leaning techniques and the knowledge of seasoned cybersecurity professionals to assist organizations of all sizes in Chicago to ward off or clean up after a ransomware assault. Progent's services include enterprise-wide vulnerability reports, 24x7 monitoring, ransomware protection using machine learning, and fast restoration of operations led by Progent's experienced group of ransomware cleanup consultants.

Progent's crypto-ransomware protection services are designed to stop ransomware assaults before they stop your company, and to restore victimized networks to ongoing operation as quickly as possible. Progent's crypto-ransomware protection services can be delivered on-site or remotely to conserve time and minimize costs. Progent has experience working with leading cyber insurance providers including Chubb to deliver vulnerability assessments, non-stop monitoring, fast recovery, ransom settlement negotiation, and root-cause forensic analysis.

Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line: Call 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line is designed to assist you to take the time-critical first phase in responding to a ransomware attack by containing the malware. Progent's remote ransomware expert can help you to identify and quarantine infected devices and protect clean resources from being compromised. If your Chicago system has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800. For more information, visit Progent's Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line.

ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report: Online Evaluation
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is a low-cost service built around a brief phone interview with a Progent information assurance expert. The fact-finding interview is intended to evaluate your company's preparedness either to block ransomware or recover quickly after an assault by a ransomware variant like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Conti or Nephilim. Progent will work with you personally to collect information concerning your current security profile and backup procedures, and Progent will then produce a custom Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how you can follow best practices to create a cost-effective security and backup/recovery system that minimizes your vulnerability to a ransomware attack and aligns with your company's requirements. For more information, see Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report.

SentinelOne Dealers and Integration Experts: AI-based Cyberthreat Defense
SentinelOne's Singularity portfolio is a subscription-based, cloud-centered threat defense stack that features AI algorithms and advanced services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity Control and Complete) and managed detection and response (Singularity Complete with Vigilance MDR). SentinelOne's compact agents can be installed in a few minutes to protect endpoints against modern cyberthreats including ransomware, familiar and new malware, trojans, hacking tool sets, memory exploits, script misuse, invasive macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) attacks. SentinelOne software agents are offered for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux distributions, and Kubernetes endpoints. Supported deployment models include physical, virtual, VDI, customer and hybrid data centers, and cloud service providers. Since SentinelOne software agents are autonomous, they can provide advanced behavior-based security in real time even when endpoints are unattached to the cloud. To find out more about Progent's support for SentinelOne Singularity solutions, see SentinelOne resellers and integration experts.

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint detection and response (EDR) service that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based threat analysis tools to defend physical and virtual endpoint devices against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the complete threat progression including protection, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

Ransomware Removal and Operational Continuity Services: Progent's Ransomware Response Consulting Support
Progent's ransomware recovery experts can assist your business to restore an IT network damaged by a ransomware attack like Avaddon, Blackcat, Dharma, Netwalker, Conti or Egregor. To find out more, see Progent's ransomware cleanup and operational restoration experts.

Ransomware Negotiation Consulting: Settlement with Ransomware Attackers
Progent's experienced ransomware settlement negotiation experts can help your business to reach a settlement agreement with hackers after an attack by a ransomware variant such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, Conti or Nephilim. For more information, see Progent's ransomware negotiation consultants.

Ransomware Forensics: Post-attack Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware breach and perform a detailed forensics investigation including root-cause determination without slowing down activity related to business continuity and data restoration. For details, see Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics investigation and reporting.

Qualifying for Ransomware Cybersecurity Insurance Assessments
Issuers of cyber insurance have significantly increased the intensity of cybersecurity evaluations before creating or renewing policies. Insurance companies are also investigating whether the answers clients give on assessment questionnaires match with the target environment prior to issuing payments. Areas of concern include:

• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all accounts, including administrators, whether on premises or cloud based
• Immutable backup with copies stored off premises
• Comprehensive periodic validation of backups plus a plan detailing what must be recovered and in what order in the event of an emergency
• Implementation on all servers and endpoints of an advanced Next Generation Anti-Virus (NGAV) and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) platform like SentinelOne
• Staying current with software/firmware updates and patches
• Implementation of privileged account management (PAM) software such as CyberArk

• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) consulting
• Immutable storage backup deployment consulting
• System recovery planning and validation consulting
• SentinelOne NGAV and EDR/XDR planning and implementation consulting
• Software update management services
• CyberArk and BeyondTrust PAM integration services

Ransomware Cleanup Case Study: An Example of Progent's Ransomware Cleanup Experts in Action
Progent's ransomware recovery team deploys top notch project management applications to orchestrate the complicated recovery process. Progent knows the urgency of acting swiftly and in concert with a client's management and Information Technology team members to assign priority to tasks and to put critical applications back on line as soon as possible. To read a case study of Progent's ransomware response experts at work, see Progent's ransomware removal and business continuity services.

Download Datasheet: Progent's Ransomware Endpoint Detection and Response Services
For a datasheet about Progent's ransomware endpoint detection and response (EDR) services, click:
Progent's Progent's Ransomware Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Services Datasheet. (PDF - 748 KB)

Five Critical and Low-Cost Cybersecurity Practices
Your organization does not require a gigantic security budget to shield you against cyber attacks such as ransomware. With some key choices and by sticking to leading practices, you can significantly upgrade your cybersecurity posture without going broke doing it. Progent has put together a compact playbook that outlines five crucial and budget-friendly cybersecurity practices that can protect your company against the most pervasive cyber threats. By focusing on these five core areas, you can guard your data, infrastructure, and reputation, even without enterprise-class resources. Visit five essential and affordable cybersecurity practices.

Contact Progent for Ransomware Solutions in Chicago
For more details about Progent's ransomware defense and recovery services for Chicago, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.