Ransomware Solutions Consulting Experts

Progent's Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Services in Pleasanton
Progent is experienced in negotiating ransomware settlements with adversaries. Negotiating an optimum settlement is a complicated activity that calls for a mix of field experience, IT knowledge and business savvy. It also requires close co-operation with the victim's IT team and the insurance carrier, if there is one. Since the number one priority of the ransomware victim is operational continuity, it is critical to establish recovery teams that operate efficiently, in parallel, and in close communication. Progent has the breadth of IT skills and the deep bench of personnel to supplement your IT staff and recover your network quickly and economically.

Support offered by Progent's ransomware negotiation experts include:

• Determining the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Identifying and communicating with the hacker
• Evaluating the likelihood of recovery
• Verifying the TA's decryption capabilities
• Deciding on an acceptable settlement range with the ransomware victim and the cyber insurance carrier
• Establishing a settlement amount and timeline with the TA
• Confirming adherence to anti-money laundering (AML) laws
• Overseeing the crypto-currency payment to the hacker
• Acquiring, reviewing, and operating the threat actor's decryption mechanism
• If needed, contacting the threat actor for assistance with the decryption utility

• Isolating infected endpoints to arrest the progress of the assault
• Making replicas of every breached server and endpoint and data store in order to perform forensics without interfering with cleanup
• Installing A/V agents to all clean endpoints
• Restoring data from air-gapped backups or unscathed endpoints
• Creating a pristine recovery environment
• Mapping and connecting datastores to reflect precisely their pre-encryption condition

Paying Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond demanding money for a decryption tool, modern variants of ransomware such as Ryuk, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, and Nephilim often attempt to exfiltrate files. TAs are then able to demand an extra settlement in exchange for not divulging this data or selling it. Unfortunately, there is no method to prove that stolen files have been completely deleted by the threat actor. In fact, in many instances the threat actor has little control over data custody. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not free you from the need for getting the guidance of privacy lawyers, performing an investigation into which files were compromised, and performing the required alerts to affected entities. In general, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.

Progent's Qualifications
Progent has provided online and on-premises IT services across the United States for over two decades and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's roster of subject matter experts includes professionals who have earned high-level certifications in foundation technologies including Cisco networking, VMware virtualization, and major distributions of Linux. Progent's data security consultants have earned industry-recognized certifications such as CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, CRISC, and CMMC 2.0. (Refer to certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also offers top-tier support in financial and Enterprise Resource Planning software. This breadth of skills gives Progent the ability to salvage and integrate the surviving parts of your IT environment following a ransomware intrusion and reconstruct them rapidly into an operational system. Progent has collaborated with top cyber insurance carriers like Chubb to help businesses recover from ransomware assaults.

Contact Progent about Crypto-Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Guidance in Pleasanton
To get in touch with Progent about crypto-ransomware settlement guidance in Pleasanton, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.