Ransomware Solutions Consulting Services

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Consulting in Melbourne
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with adversaries. Reaching an optimum settlement is a complicated activity that calls for a mix of field experience, IT skills and business acumen. It also calls for working closely with the ransomware victim's IT staff and the insurance carrier, if there is one. Because the number one goal of the ransomware victim is operational continuity, it is vital to establish recovery groups that operate effectively, concurrently, and with intimate collaboration. Progent has the scope of technical knowledge and the deep bench of experts to complement your IT staff and restore your network quickly and affordably.

Support available from Progent's ransomware negotiation experts include:

• Determining the type of ransomware used in the attack
• Making contact with the hacker
• Evaluating the recovery risk
• Verifying the TA's decryption capabilities
• Deciding on an acceptable settlement with the victim and the cyber insurance carrier
• Establishing a settlement amount and timeline with the hacker
• Confirming accordance with anti-money laundering (AML) laws
• Managing the crypto-currency transfer to the hacker
• Acquiring, reviewing, and using the hacker's decryptor utility
• If necessary, contacting the threat actor for technical help with the decryptor utility

• Quarantining infected endpoints to prevent further spread of the assault
• Creating digital copies of each infected server and endpoint and data store in order to perform forensics without interfering with recovery
• Installing anti-virus protection to all clean endpoints
• Restoring files from offline backups or uncompromised endpoints
• Building a clean recovery environment
• Remapping and reconnecting datastores to reflect exactly their pre-encryption state

Settling Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to demanding money for a decryption utility, current strains of ransomware like Ryuk, Maze, DopplePaymer, and Egregor commonly try to exfiltrate information. TAs can then require a separate settlement in exchange for not posting this data or selling it. Unfortunately, there is no way to prove that stolen files have been totally deleted by the hacker. In fact, in many cases the hacker has little control about where the information ends up. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the necessity of getting the guidance of legal counsel, performing an audit on which files were compromised, and performing the mandated alerts to affected entities. Generally, paying an exfiltration ransom is a waste.

Progent's Qualifications
Progent has provided remote and onsite IT services across the United States for more than 20 years and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's roster of subject matter experts includes consultants who have been awarded advanced certifications in foundation technology platforms such as Cisco networking, VMware virtualization, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's data security experts have earned prestigious certifications including CISA, CISSP, CRISC, and CMMC 2.0. (Refer to certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also has guidance in financial management and Enterprise Resource Planning software. This breadth of skills gives Progent the ability to identify and consolidate the undamaged pieces of your information system following a ransomware assault and reconstruct them rapidly into a functioning system. Progent has worked with top insurance providers like Chubb to assist organizations recover from ransomware assaults.

Contact Progent about Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Services in Melbourne
To contact with Progent about ransomware settlement guidance in Melbourne, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.