Ransomware Response Services in The Woodlands

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting Services in The Woodlands
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the evidence of a ransomware assault and carry out a detailed forensics analysis without disrupting activity required for operational continuity and data restoration. Your The Woodlands organization can use Progent's ransomware forensics documentation to counter future ransomware attacks, assist in the cleanup of lost data, and comply with insurance and regulatory reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at discovering and describing the ransomware assault's storyline throughout the targeted network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware attack progressed through the network helps your IT staff to assess the damage and uncovers gaps in policies or work habits that need to be rectified to avoid future breaches. Forensics is commonly assigned a top priority by the insurance provider and is often mandated by state and industry regulations. Since forensics can be time consuming, it is essential that other important recovery processes like operational resumption are performed concurrently. Progent has a large roster of information technology and security experts with the skills needed to carry out the work of containment, operational resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics investigation is arduous and calls for intimate interaction with the teams assigned to file recovery and, if necessary, settlement talks with the ransomware threat actor. Ransomware forensics can require the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to detect variations.

Services associated with forensics include:

• Detach without shutting down all possibly impacted devices from the system. This can involve closing all RDP ports and Internet facing NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring 2FA to guard your backups.
• Capture forensically valid duplicates of all exposed devices so your file recovery group can proceed
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and other key logs as soon as possible
• Identify the type of ransomware used in the assault
• Examine every computer and data store on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Review log activity and sessions to establish the timeline of the attack and to identify any potential sideways migration from the originally compromised machine
• Identify the security gaps used to carry out the ransomware assault
• Look for the creation of executables associated with the first encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine email attachments
• Separate any URLs embedded in email messages and determine whether they are malware
• Produce extensive incident reporting to satisfy your insurance and compliance requirements
• Document recommendations to close security gaps and enforce workflows that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Services in The Woodlands
To find out more about ways Progent can assist your The Woodlands organization with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.