Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Rancho Cordova

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in Rancho Cordova
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without slowing down activity required for business resumption and data recovery. Your Rancho Cordova organization can use Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics documentation to counter subsequent ransomware assaults, assist in the recovery of encrypted data, and comply with insurance and regulatory requirements.

Ransomware forensics involves determining and documenting the ransomware attack's storyline across the network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware attack progressed through the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the impact and brings to light shortcomings in policies or work habits that need to be rectified to avoid later break-ins. Forensic analysis is typically given a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often required by government and industry regulations. Since forensics can be time consuming, it is critical that other key recovery processes like operational continuity are pursued in parallel. Progent maintains a large roster of IT and security experts with the skills required to perform activities for containment, business continuity, and data restoration without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics analysis is complex and requires intimate interaction with the teams assigned to file cleanup and, if necessary, payment negotiation with the ransomware adversary. forensics typically involve the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, AD, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to detect changes.

Services associated with forensics analysis include:

• Disconnect but avoid shutting down all possibly suspect devices from the system. This may involve closing all RDP ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and configuring two-factor authentication to guard backups.
• Capture forensically sound digital images of all exposed devices so your data recovery team can proceed
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and other critical logs as soon as possible
• Identify the strain of ransomware used in the attack
• Examine every machine and storage device on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of encryption
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Determine the type of ransomware involved in the attack
• Review log activity and sessions in order to determine the time frame of the attack and to identify any potential lateral migration from the originally compromised system
• Identify the security gaps exploited to carry out the ransomware attack
• Look for the creation of executables associated with the first encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine attachments
• Separate any URLs from email messages and check to see whether they are malware
• Produce detailed incident reporting to meet your insurance carrier and compliance mandates
• Document recommendations to close cybersecurity vulnerabilities and enforce processes that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Expertise in Rancho Cordova
To learn more information about ways Progent can assist your Rancho Cordova business with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.