Ransomware Solutions Consulting Services

Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Consulting in Saddle Brook
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with threat actors. Negotiating an acceptable settlement is a complex activity that calls for a mix of field experience, IT skills and business savvy. It also requires working closely with the ransomware victim's IT team and the cyber insurance provider, if any. Since the number one priority of the ransomware victim is fast recovery, it is vital to establish recovery groups that work efficiently, concurrently, and in close communication. Progent offers the breadth of IT skills and the deep bench of personnel to complement your IT support team and recover your network environment quickly and economically.

Services offered by Progent's ransomware settlement experts include:

• Establishing the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Identifying and contacting the hacker persona
• Assessing the recovery risk
• Verifying the TA's decryption capabilities
• Agreeing on a settlement range with the ransomware victim and the insurance provider
• Negotiating a settlement amount and schedule with the threat actor
• Verifying adherence to anti-money laundering laws
• Overseeing the crypto-currency transfer to the TA
• Acquiring, reviewing, and operating the threat actor's decryption mechanism
• If necessary, contacting the TA for technical help with the decryptor tool

• Quarantining affected endpoints to prevent further spread of the assault
• Creating digital copies of every breached device and data store in order to perform forensics without interfering with cleanup
• Installing anti-virus agents to all clean endpoints
• Recovering data from air-gapped backups or uncompromised machines
• Creating a pristine environment
• Mapping and connecting datastores to match precisely their pre-encryption state

Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond extorting payment for a decryption utility, current variants of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, Netwalker, and Egregor commonly attempt to exfiltrate information. TAs are then able to demand an additional ransom for not divulging this information or selling it. Unfortunately, there is no way to guarantee that exfiltrated files have been completely deleted by the hacker. Actually, in numerous instances the TA has limited control about where the information ends up. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not free you from the need for seeking the advice of privacy lawyers, conducting an investigation into which data were compromised, and performing the necessary alerts to impacted entities. In almost all cases, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.

Progent's Qualifications
Progent has delivered online and onsite IT services across the U.S. for more than 20 years and has earned Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's team of SMEs includes consultants who have been awarded advanced certifications in foundation technologies such as Cisco infrastructure, VMware, and major distributions of Linux. Progent's cybersecurity experts have earned prestigious certifications including CISM, CISSP-ISSAP, GIAC, and CMMC 2.0. (Refer to Progent's certifications). Progent also offers top-tier support in financial management and ERP applications. This breadth of expertise allows Progent to salvage and consolidate the surviving parts of your network following a ransomware assault and reconstruct them quickly into a functioning system. Progent has collaborated with top cyber insurance providers like Chubb to help organizations clean up after ransomware attacks.

Contact Progent about Crypto-Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Guidance in Saddle Brook
To contact with Progent about ransomware settlement negotiation guidance in Saddle Brook, call Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.