Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Ottawa

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting Services in Ottawa
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can save the system state after a ransomware attack and carry out a comprehensive forensics investigation without impeding the processes related to operational continuity and data restoration. Your Ottawa organization can utilize Progent's ransomware forensics report to combat subsequent ransomware assaults, validate the restoration of lost data, and comply with insurance and governmental requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation involves discovering and documenting the ransomware assault's progress across the targeted network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware assault travelled within the network helps you to assess the damage and brings to light gaps in security policies or work habits that should be corrected to avoid future breaches. Forensics is usually assigned a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often mandated by state and industry regulations. Because forensics can take time, it is essential that other important recovery processes like operational continuity are pursued in parallel. Progent maintains a large team of IT and data security experts with the skills needed to perform activities for containment, business resumption, and data recovery without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is complex and requires intimate interaction with the teams assigned to file cleanup and, if necessary, payment negotiation with the ransomware threat actor. forensics typically require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to check for anomalies.

Activities involved with forensics investigation include:

• Disconnect but avoid shutting off all possibly impacted devices from the network. This may involve closing all RDP ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing two-factor authentication to protect your backups.
• Copy forensically valid digital images of all exposed devices so the data recovery team can proceed
• Save firewall, VPN, and other critical logs as soon as possible
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Survey each computer and storage device on the network including cloud storage for signs of compromise
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Establish the type of ransomware used in the attack
• Review logs and user sessions in order to determine the time frame of the assault and to identify any potential sideways movement from the first compromised machine
• Identify the attack vectors exploited to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Search for the creation of executables surrounding the original encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze attachments
• Separate any URLs from email messages and determine whether they are malware
• Produce comprehensive incident documentation to satisfy your insurance and compliance requirements
• List recommended improvements to shore up security vulnerabilities and improve workflows that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware breach

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