Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Bellevue

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting in Bellevue
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware assault and carry out a comprehensive forensics investigation without slowing down the processes related to operational resumption and data recovery. Your Bellevue business can use Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics report to combat subsequent ransomware assaults, assist in the cleanup of lost data, and meet insurance and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at determining and documenting the ransomware attack's storyline throughout the targeted network from start to finish. This audit trail of how a ransomware assault travelled within the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the damage and uncovers vulnerabilities in policies or processes that need to be rectified to avoid later breaches. Forensic analysis is commonly assigned a top priority by the insurance carrier and is typically required by government and industry regulations. Since forensics can take time, it is critical that other key activities such as business resumption are performed concurrently. Progent has an extensive team of IT and cybersecurity professionals with the skills required to perform the work of containment, business resumption, and data restoration without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics analysis is time consuming and requires intimate interaction with the groups responsible for file cleanup and, if needed, settlement discussions with the ransomware adversary. forensics typically require the examination of logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to look for anomalies.

Services involved with forensics analysis include:

• Detach without shutting down all possibly suspect devices from the network. This may involve closing all RDP ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and setting up 2FA to protect backups.
• Preserve forensically valid images of all exposed devices so your data restoration team can get started
• Save firewall, VPN, and additional key logs as quickly as feasible
• Establish the version of ransomware used in the attack
• Examine each computer and data store on the system as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of encryption
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Review logs and user sessions to establish the time frame of the attack and to spot any potential sideways migration from the first infected machine
• Understand the security gaps used to carry out the ransomware attack
• Look for new executables associated with the original encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze email attachments
• Extract URLs from messages and determine if they are malicious
• Produce extensive attack reporting to satisfy your insurance and compliance mandates
• Suggest recommended improvements to shore up security vulnerabilities and enforce processes that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Expertise in Bellevue
To find out more about ways Progent can help your Bellevue business with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.