Ransomware Response Services in Calgary
Ransomware Forensics and Documentation
Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting Services in Calgary
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can capture the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without impeding activity required for business continuity and data restoration. Your Calgary organization can utilize Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics report to combat subsequent ransomware attacks, assist in the restoration of lost data, and meet insurance and governmental mandates.
Ransomware forensics investigation involves determining and describing the ransomware attack's storyline throughout the network from start to finish. This audit trail of the way a ransomware attack travelled through the network helps your IT staff to assess the damage and brings to light shortcomings in rules or processes that should be rectified to avoid later breaches. Forensics is commonly given a top priority by the cyber insurance provider and is often required by state and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can take time, it is critical that other key activities like business resumption are executed concurrently. Progent maintains a large roster of IT and data security experts with the skills needed to carry out activities for containment, business continuity, and data recovery without disrupting forensic analysis.
Ransomware forensics analysis is complicated and requires close cooperation with the groups responsible for data recovery and, if needed, payment discussions with the ransomware attacker. Ransomware forensics can involve the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to detect variations.
Services associated with forensics include:
- Disconnect but avoid shutting down all possibly impacted devices from the system. This may require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring two-factor authentication to protect your backups.
- Preserve forensically valid images of all suspect devices so the data recovery group can get started
- Save firewall, VPN, and other key logs as quickly as possible
- Determine the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
- Examine every machine and data store on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
- Inventory all encrypted devices
- Determine the type of ransomware involved in the assault
- Study logs and user sessions in order to determine the time frame of the ransomware attack and to spot any potential sideways migration from the originally compromised system
- Identify the security gaps used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
- Look for new executables associated with the first encrypted files or system breach
- Parse Outlook web archives
- Analyze attachments
- Separate URLs embedded in email messages and determine whether they are malware
- Produce comprehensive attack reporting to meet your insurance carrier and compliance regulations
- Document recommendations to shore up security vulnerabilities and improve workflows that lower the risk of a future ransomware exploit
Progent has provided online and on-premises IT services throughout the U.S. for more than two decades and has earned Microsoft's Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's team of subject matter experts (SMEs) includes consultants who have been awarded high-level certifications in core technology platforms including Cisco infrastructure, VMware, and popular Linux distros. Progent's data security consultants have earned internationally recognized certifications such as CISA, CISSP, and GIAC. (Refer to certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also offers guidance in financial management and ERP application software. This scope of skills gives Progent the ability to salvage and integrate the surviving pieces of your IT environment following a ransomware attack and reconstruct them quickly into a viable network. Progent has worked with top cyber insurance carriers including Chubb to help organizations recover from ransomware attacks.
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