Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Southlake

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting in Southlake
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can capture the system state after a ransomware assault and carry out a comprehensive forensics investigation without disrupting activity related to business continuity and data recovery. Your Southlake business can utilize Progent's forensics documentation to combat future ransomware attacks, validate the cleanup of encrypted data, and meet insurance and governmental requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis involves determining and describing the ransomware assault's storyline across the targeted network from start to finish. This audit trail of how a ransomware assault progressed within the network assists you to assess the impact and brings to light weaknesses in security policies or processes that should be corrected to prevent later break-ins. Forensic analysis is usually given a high priority by the insurance carrier and is typically required by state and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can take time, it is critical that other key activities such as business resumption are executed in parallel. Progent has a large roster of IT and data security experts with the skills needed to carry out activities for containment, operational resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is time consuming and requires intimate interaction with the groups focused on data restoration and, if necessary, payment negotiation with the ransomware adversary. forensics can involve the review of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), AD, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to look for anomalies.

Activities involved with forensics investigation include:

• Isolate but avoid shutting down all potentially impacted devices from the network. This may require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up 2FA to protect backups.
• Create forensically complete images of all exposed devices so your data restoration group can get started
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as soon as feasible
• Identify the version of ransomware involved in the attack
• Survey every computer and data store on the system including cloud-hosted storage for indications of encryption
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Establish the type of ransomware used in the assault
• Study log activity and sessions in order to establish the time frame of the attack and to spot any potential lateral migration from the originally infected machine
• Identify the security gaps exploited to carry out the ransomware attack
• Search for new executables surrounding the original encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine attachments
• Separate any URLs embedded in messages and check to see if they are malicious
• Produce extensive attack reporting to meet your insurance carrier and compliance mandates
• Document recommended improvements to close security gaps and improve workflows that lower the risk of a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Services in Southlake
To find out more information about how Progent can help your Southlake business with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.