Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting Services in Ipanema
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware attack and carry out a comprehensive forensics analysis without interfering with the processes required for business resumption and data recovery. Your Ipanema business can utilize Progent's ransomware forensics report to counter subsequent ransomware assaults, assist in the restoration of lost data, and comply with insurance carrier and governmental requirements.
Ransomware forensics investigation involves discovering and describing the ransomware assault's storyline across the network from beginning to end. This audit trail of the way a ransomware attack progressed within the network helps your IT staff to assess the damage and uncovers gaps in security policies or processes that should be corrected to prevent later break-ins. Forensic analysis is commonly given a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically required by state and industry regulations. Because forensics can take time, it is vital that other key activities like operational resumption are executed concurrently. Progent has a large team of information technology and data security professionals with the skills required to perform the work of containment, business continuity, and data recovery without disrupting forensics.
Ransomware forensics analysis is arduous and calls for close cooperation with the teams assigned to data restoration and, if needed, settlement talks with the ransomware hacker. forensics typically require the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to look for changes.
Activities involved with forensics investigation include:
- Detach without shutting down all potentially suspect 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 passwords, and configuring two-factor authentication to guard your backups.
- Preserve forensically valid duplicates of all suspect devices so your data restoration group can get started
- Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and additional key logs as quickly as possible
- Establish the variety of ransomware used in the attack
- Survey every machine and data store on the network as well as cloud storage for indications of compromise
- Inventory all compromised devices
- Establish the kind of ransomware used in the assault
- Review log activity and sessions in order to determine the timeline of the attack and to identify any potential lateral migration from the originally compromised system
- Identify the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware assault
- Look for new executables surrounding the original encrypted files or system breach
- Parse Outlook web archives
- Examine email attachments
- Separate URLs from messages and check to see if they are malware
- Produce detailed incident documentation to meet your insurance and compliance regulations
- Suggest recommendations to shore up cybersecurity vulnerabilities and improve workflows that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware breach
Progent's Background
Progent has provided remote and on-premises IT services across the United States for more than two decades and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's roster of subject matter experts (SMEs) includes professionals who have been awarded advanced certifications in core technologies including Cisco infrastructure, VMware, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's cybersecurity experts have earned internationally recognized certifications such as CISM, CISSP, and CRISC. (Refer to certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also has guidance in financial management and ERP software. This scope of expertise allows Progent to identify and consolidate the undamaged parts of your information system after a ransomware assault and rebuild them rapidly into a functioning system. Progent has worked with top insurance carriers including Chubb to assist organizations clean up after ransomware assaults.
Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Expertise in Ipanema
To learn more about ways Progent can help your Ipanema business with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.