Ransomware negotiator Retainer? Do you currently hold a retainer with a ransomware negotiator consulting firm? If so any recommendations?

Yes — and structure matters more than the name.
Best Practice: Recovery by design, negotiation by exception.

For insurer-aligned retainers:
• Coalition for enterprise (built-in negotiator panel + in-house IR)
• At-Bay for mid-market (prescriptive OFAC/legal workflows)
• Corvus for SMB (integrated prevention + response)

Coverage sanity check: Always confirm panel status, compliance, and pre-auth during renewal — not during a breach.

Note: Sygnia remains top-tier as a hands-on response and negotiation firm — often embedded within these insurers’ panels rather than used standalone.

Coalition, At-Bay, and Corvus orchestrate; Sygnia executes. Alignment ensures coverage and speed when it matters.

Insurance companies will not pay a claim for ransomware. Instead of paying the attackers, you would be better off investing in recovery of your systems. You will be attacked, you will be compromised, you must minimize the damage to your organization using the Defense in Depth and Zero Trust frameworks. Isolate as much as possible with internal network segments. Ensure the attackers are unable to transit the internal network freely. Then focus on recovery. Clean backups, data organization, prioritization of systems, and practice!!!!!!

Sygnia helped me with that issue once. https://www.sygnia.co/