Ransomware Solutions Consultants

Progent's Ransomware Negotiation Consulting in Naples
Progent is experienced in negotiating ransomware settlements with adversaries. Reaching an acceptable settlement is a complex activity that calls for a combination of field experience, IT knowledge and business acumen. It also demands working closely with the ransomware victim's IT staff and the insurance carrier, if there is one. Since the number one goal of the ransomware target is operational continuity, it is vital to establish response groups that work effectively, in parallel, and with intimate collaboration. Progent has the scope of technical knowledge and the deep bench of personnel to complement your IT support team and recover your network environment rapidly and economically.

Services offered by Progent's ransomware negotiation experts include:

• Establishing the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Identifying and contacting the hacker persona
• Assessing the likelihood of recovery
• Testing the threat actor's decryption tool
• Determining a settlement with the ransomware victim and the cyber insurance carrier
• Negotiating a settlement amount and timeline with the hacker
• Checking accordance with anti-money laundering (AML) sanctions
• Carrying out the crypto-currency disbursement to the TA
• Receiving, learning, and using the TA's decryption utility
• If needed, contacting the threat actor for technical assistance with the decryptor utility

• Isolating infected endpoints and data stores to prevent further spread of the attack
• Creating replicas of every infected server and endpoint and data store in order to perform forensics in parallel with restoration
• Installing anti-virus agents to all clean endpoints
• Salvaging files from air-gapped restores or unscathed endpoints
• Building a clean recovery environment
• Remapping and reconnecting datastores to match exactly their pre-attack condition

Paying Exfiltration Ransoms
Beyond extorting payment for a decryption utility, current variants of ransomware like Ryuk, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, and Nephilim commonly try to exfiltrate information. TAs can then require an extra ransom in exchange for not publishing this data or selling it. Sadly, there exists no method to guarantee that stolen data have been totally deleted by the hacker. Actually, in many cases the TA has little control about data custody. Settling an exfiltration ransom does not free you from the need for seeking the guidance of privacy attorneys, conducting an investigation into which data were compromised, and performing the necessary alerts to affected entities. Generally, paying an exfiltration ransom is not recommended.

Progent's Qualifications
Progent has provided online and on-premises IT services throughout the U.S. for over 20 years and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's team of SMEs includes professionals who have earned advanced certifications in foundation technology platforms such as Cisco infrastructure, VMware virtualization, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's data security consultants have earned industry-recognized certifications including CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, CRISC, and CMMC 2.0. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also offers guidance in financial management and Enterprise Resource Planning applications. This scope of skills allows Progent to identify and consolidate the surviving parts of your IT environment after a ransomware intrusion and reconstruct them rapidly into a viable network. Progent has collaborated with top insurance carriers like Chubb to help organizations clean up after ransomware assaults.

Contact Progent about Ransomware Settlement Expertise in Naples
To get in touch with Progent about ransomware settlement services in Naples, phone Progent at 800-462-8800 or go to Contact Progent.