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Overview of Progent's Ransomware Settlement Negotiation Services in Florianópolis
Progent has experience negotiating ransomware settlements with hackers. Reaching an optimum settlement is a complicated exercise that calls for a combination of field experience, technical knowledge and business acumen. It also requires working closely with the cyber-extortion target's IT team and the cyber insurance provider, if any. Since the number one priority of the ransomware target is fast recovery, it is vital to deploy recovery teams that work effectively, concurrently, and with intimate collaboration. Progent has the scope of technical skills and the depth of experts to complement your network staff and recover your network quickly and economically.

Support available from Progent's ransomware settlement negotiation team include:

• Establishing the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Making contact with the hacker persona
• Evaluating the likelihood of recovery
• Testing the hacker's decryption capabilities
• Determining a settlement payment with the victim and the cyber insurance provider
• Negotiating a settlement amount and schedule with the TA
• Verifying accordance with anti-money laundering sanctions
• Carrying out the crypto-currency disbursement to the hacker
• Acquiring, learning, and using the threat actor's decryption tool
• If necessary, contacting the threat actor for technical assistance with the decryption tool

• Quarantining infected endpoints and data stores to arrest the spread of the attack
• Making digital copies of every compromised server and endpoint and data store in order to perform forensics in parallel with restoration
• Adding anti-virus agents to all clean endpoints
• Recovering files from offline restores or unscathed machines
• Creating a pristine recovery environment
• Remapping and reconnecting datastores to match precisely their pre-encryption condition

Exfiltration Ransoms
In addition to extorting money for a decryption tool, current strains of crypto-ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Netwalker, and Egregor commonly try to steal (or "exfiltrate") files. TAs are then able to require an extra payment in exchange for not posting this data on the dark web. Sadly, there is no method to guarantee that stolen data have been completely deleted by the TA. Actually, in many cases the TA has limited say about where the information ends up. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not eliminate the necessity of seeking the advice of privacy attorneys, performing an audit on which files were taken, and performing the required notifications to impacted entities. In almost all cases, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.

Progent's Qualifications
Progent has provided remote and on-premises network services across the U.S. for more than two decades and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's team of subject matter experts (SMEs) includes consultants who have been awarded high-level certifications in core technologies including Cisco networking, VMware virtualization, and major distributions of Linux. Progent's data security consultants have earned internationally recognized certifications including CISM, CISSP-ISSAP, CRISC, and CMMC 2.0. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also has top-tier support in financial management and ERP applications. This scope of skills gives Progent the ability to identify and integrate the surviving parts of your network after a ransomware intrusion and rebuild them rapidly into a viable system. Progent has collaborated with top cyber insurance carriers including Chubb to help businesses recover from ransomware attacks.

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