Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Montreal

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in Montreal
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the evidence of a ransomware attack and carry out a comprehensive forensics investigation without interfering with the processes required for business resumption and data restoration. Your Montreal business can use Progent's post-attack forensics documentation to block subsequent ransomware assaults, validate the cleanup of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory mandates.

Ransomware forensics involves determining and documenting the ransomware assault's storyline across the network from start to finish. This history of how a ransomware assault progressed through the network helps your IT staff to assess the impact and highlights weaknesses in rules or work habits that need to be corrected to avoid later breaches. Forensic analysis is typically given a high priority by the insurance carrier and is often required by state and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is critical that other important activities like business resumption are performed concurrently. Progent has an extensive team of information technology and security experts with the skills required to perform activities for containment, business resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is complex and requires intimate interaction with the teams assigned to file restoration and, if necessary, settlement negotiation with the ransomware adversary. Ransomware forensics can require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to detect variations.

Services associated with forensics analysis include:

• Detach but avoid shutting down all potentially suspect devices from the network. This can involve closing all RDP ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and configuring two-factor authentication to protect backups.
• Copy forensically sound duplicates of all suspect devices so the file recovery team can proceed
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and additional critical logs as quickly as feasible
• Determine the type of ransomware involved in the assault
• Survey each machine and data store on the system as well as cloud storage for indications of compromise
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Study log activity and sessions in order to determine the time frame of the attack and to spot any possible sideways movement from the first infected system
• Identify the attack vectors used to carry out the ransomware assault
• Search for the creation of executables surrounding the first encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze email attachments
• Separate URLs from email messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Produce comprehensive incident documentation to meet your insurance and compliance mandates
• Document recommended improvements to shore up cybersecurity gaps and improve workflows that reduce the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Expertise in Montreal
To find out more about how Progent can assist your Montreal organization with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.