Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Akron

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in Akron
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the system state after a ransomware attack and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without disrupting activity related to business resumption and data recovery. Your Akron organization can use Progent's forensics report to block future ransomware attacks, validate the recovery of lost data, and meet insurance and regulatory reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at discovering and documenting the ransomware attack's storyline across the network from start to finish. This history of the way a ransomware attack travelled within the network helps your IT staff to evaluate the impact and highlights vulnerabilities in policies or processes that should be rectified to avoid future breaches. Forensic analysis is usually assigned a top priority by the insurance carrier and is often mandated by state and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can take time, it is essential that other key activities such as business continuity are executed concurrently. Progent has an extensive team of IT and data security professionals with the knowledge and experience required to perform the work of containment, business continuity, and data recovery without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is complex and requires intimate cooperation with the groups assigned to file cleanup and, if needed, payment discussions with the ransomware attacker. Ransomware forensics can require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to look for changes.

Services associated with forensics analysis include:

• Isolate but avoid shutting off all potentially suspect devices from the system. This can require closing all RDP ports and Internet facing NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up two-factor authentication to guard your backups.
• Preserve forensically complete duplicates of all exposed devices so the file restoration team can get started
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and other key logs as quickly as possible
• Determine the type of ransomware involved in the assault
• Examine every computer and data store on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for signs of encryption
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Review log activity and sessions in order to establish the time frame of the ransomware attack and to identify any potential lateral migration from the originally compromised machine
• Understand the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Look for new executables associated with the first encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze email attachments
• Extract any URLs embedded in messages and determine whether they are malware
• Produce detailed attack reporting to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance mandates
• Document recommended improvements to shore up cybersecurity vulnerabilities and improve workflows that lower the risk of a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Expertise in Akron
To learn more about how Progent can help your Akron business with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.