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Ransomware and Cyber Extortion: Response and Prevention
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Ransomware and Cyber Extortion: Response and Prevention

by Sherri Davidoff, Matt Durrin, Karen Sprenger
November 2022
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
9h 40m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 7

Negotiation

A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud.

—Victor Kiam

Learning Objectives

  • Learn effective tactics for negotiating with cyber extortionists and achieving your objectives

  • Understand the “proof of life” process with respect to cyber extortion

  • Recognize and avoid common mistakes during negotiations

Negotiating with extortionists is a complex, powerful, and sometimes intimidating process. On the one hand, an experienced negotiator can often reduce ransom amounts, buy you time to recover data, reveal information about the extortionists, and help you bring an extortion case to a resolution. On the other hand, it is very easy to botch a ransom negotiation, and trigger irritated ...

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ISBN: 9780137450268