Ransomware Response Services in Aurora

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting in Aurora
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can capture the evidence of a ransomware assault and carry out a detailed forensics investigation without disrupting activity related to operational resumption and data restoration. Your Aurora organization can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics report to block subsequent ransomware attacks, validate the restoration of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at discovering and describing the ransomware attack's storyline across the network from beginning to end. This audit trail of how a ransomware attack progressed within the network helps you to evaluate the damage and highlights gaps in rules or work habits that should be rectified to prevent later breaches. Forensic analysis is commonly given a high priority by the insurance carrier and is often required by state and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can take time, it is vital that other key activities like business resumption are executed in parallel. Progent maintains an extensive team of IT and data security experts with the skills required to carry out activities for containment, business continuity, and data restoration without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics is complicated and requires intimate cooperation with the groups assigned to file restoration and, if necessary, payment discussions with the ransomware adversary. Ransomware forensics typically involve the examination of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to detect variations.

Activities involved with forensics analysis include:

• Isolate but avoid shutting off all potentially impacted devices from the system. This may involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up 2FA to secure your backups.
• Create forensically complete images of all exposed devices so your file restoration team can proceed
• Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and additional critical logs as quickly as possible
• Establish the variety of ransomware involved in the attack
• Examine each machine and storage device on the network including cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Study logs and user sessions in order to determine the time frame of the ransomware assault and to identify any potential lateral migration from the first compromised system
• Understand the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Look for new executables associated with the original encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in messages and determine if they are malicious
• Provide detailed attack documentation to meet your insurance carrier and compliance mandates
• Document recommendations to shore up security vulnerabilities and enforce processes that lower the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Services in Aurora
To learn more about how Progent can assist your Aurora business with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.