Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Clearwater

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Clearwater
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can capture the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without impeding activity related to business resumption and data recovery. Your Clearwater business can utilize Progent's ransomware forensics documentation to block subsequent ransomware attacks, validate the recovery of encrypted data, and meet insurance and regulatory mandates.

Ransomware forensics investigation is aimed at tracking and documenting the ransomware assault's progress across the targeted network from beginning to end. This history of the way a ransomware attack travelled through the network assists your IT staff to assess the damage and highlights weaknesses in security policies or work habits that should be corrected to prevent later break-ins. Forensics is usually assigned a top priority by the cyber insurance provider and is typically mandated by government and industry regulations. Because forensics can be time consuming, it is essential that other important activities such as operational resumption are performed in parallel. Progent has a large team of information technology and cybersecurity experts with the knowledge and experience required to perform the work of containment, operational resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is time consuming and requires close cooperation with the teams focused on data recovery and, if needed, settlement talks with the ransomware adversary. Ransomware forensics can require the review of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to check for changes.

Activities involved with forensics investigation include:

• Detach but avoid shutting off all possibly suspect devices from the network. This may involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up 2FA to secure your backups.
• Create forensically valid digital images of all exposed devices so the file restoration team can proceed
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as soon as possible
• Establish the version of ransomware involved in the attack
• Examine every computer and data store on the network including cloud storage for signs of compromise
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Determine the type of ransomware involved in the attack
• Review logs and sessions in order to establish the time frame of the ransomware attack and to identify any possible sideways movement from the originally compromised system
• Understand the attack vectors used to carry out the ransomware attack
• Search for new executables surrounding the first encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze email attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in email messages and determine whether they are malware
• Provide extensive attack documentation to satisfy your insurance and compliance requirements
• Suggest recommended improvements to shore up security gaps and improve workflows that lower the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Services in Clearwater
To learn more information about how Progent can help your Clearwater organization with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.