Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Atlanta
Ransomware Forensics and Incident Reporting
Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting in Atlanta
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the system state after a ransomware assault and carry out a comprehensive forensics investigation without slowing down activity related to operational resumption and data recovery. Your Atlanta organization can use Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics report to combat future ransomware attacks, validate the recovery of lost data, and comply with insurance carrier and governmental mandates.
Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at determining and describing the ransomware attack's progress across the targeted network from start to finish. This audit trail of the way a ransomware attack progressed within the network assists your IT staff to assess the damage and brings to light shortcomings in security policies or processes that need to be corrected to avoid future break-ins. Forensics is typically assigned a high priority by the insurance carrier and is often required by state and industry regulations. Since forensics can take time, it is essential that other key recovery processes like operational continuity are performed in parallel. Progent has an extensive team of IT and data security experts with the knowledge and experience needed to perform activities for containment, operational resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensics.
Ransomware forensics investigation is complex and requires intimate interaction with the groups responsible for file restoration and, if necessary, settlement negotiation with the ransomware hacker. forensics typically require the review of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object, AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to check for anomalies.
Services involved with forensics analysis include:
- Disconnect but avoid shutting off all possibly affected devices from the network. This can involve closing all RDP ports and Internet facing NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up two-factor authentication to protect backups.
- Create forensically complete images of all suspect devices so your file restoration group can proceed
- Save firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as soon as possible
- Identify the type of ransomware used in the attack
- Inspect each machine and storage device on the system as well as cloud storage for indications of encryption
- Catalog all encrypted devices
- Determine the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
- Study log activity and sessions in order to establish the timeline of the ransomware attack and to spot any potential lateral movement from the first infected system
- Identify the attack vectors used to carry out the ransomware assault
- Look for the creation of executables surrounding the original encrypted files or network breach
- Parse Outlook PST files
- Analyze email attachments
- Extract any URLs from email messages and check to see whether they are malware
- Produce comprehensive attack documentation to satisfy your insurance and compliance mandates
- Suggest recommendations to shore up security gaps and enforce workflows that reduce the risk of a future ransomware breach
Progent has delivered online and on-premises IT services across the U.S. for over two decades and has earned Microsoft's Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's roster of SMEs includes professionals who have earned high-level certifications in core technologies such as Cisco networking, VMware virtualization, and major distributions of Linux. Progent's cybersecurity experts have earned prestigious certifications such as CISM, CISSP-ISSAP, and GIAC. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also offers guidance in financial management and ERP applications. This scope of expertise allows Progent to identify and integrate the surviving parts of your network following a ransomware intrusion and reconstruct them rapidly into an operational system. Progent has collaborated with leading cyber insurance providers like Chubb to help organizations clean up after ransomware assaults.
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