Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Addison

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting in Addison
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware attack and perform a detailed forensics investigation without slowing down activity required for business resumption and data recovery. Your Addison organization can use Progent's forensics documentation to counter future ransomware attacks, assist in the cleanup of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory mandates.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at determining and describing the ransomware attack's storyline across the network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware attack progressed through the network assists your IT staff to assess the damage and highlights shortcomings in rules or processes that should be corrected to avoid future breaches. Forensic analysis is usually given a high priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically mandated by government and industry regulations. Since forensics can take time, it is essential that other important activities like business continuity are performed concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive team of IT and data security professionals with the knowledge and experience required to perform activities for containment, operational continuity, and data restoration without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics is complex and calls for close interaction with the teams responsible for data recovery and, if necessary, payment negotiation with the ransomware attacker. forensics typically involve the review of logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to detect changes.

Activities associated with forensics include:

• Disconnect without shutting down all possibly affected devices from the network. This may involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and configuring two-factor authentication to guard backups.
• Create forensically complete images of all suspect devices so the data restoration group can proceed
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as soon as possible
• Determine the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Examine each computer and storage device on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for signs of encryption
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Study logs and user sessions in order to establish the timeline of the assault and to spot any possible lateral migration from the originally infected machine
• Understand the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Search for the creation of executables associated with the first encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine email attachments
• Separate URLs embedded in email messages and check to see whether they are malware
• Produce comprehensive attack documentation to meet your insurance and compliance requirements
• List recommendations to shore up cybersecurity vulnerabilities and improve workflows that lower the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Services in Addison
To find out more information about ways Progent can assist your Addison organization with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.