Ransomware Response Services in Minneapolis

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting in Minneapolis
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the evidence of a ransomware attack and carry out a detailed forensics investigation without interfering with the processes related to business resumption and data restoration. Your Minneapolis business can use Progent's post-attack forensics report to counter future ransomware attacks, assist in the cleanup of encrypted data, and comply with insurance and governmental requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at determining and describing the ransomware assault's storyline across the network from beginning to end. This audit trail of how a ransomware assault travelled through the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the impact and highlights weaknesses in rules or work habits that need to be corrected to prevent future break-ins. Forensics is commonly assigned a high priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often mandated by government and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is vital that other important recovery processes like operational continuity are executed in parallel. Progent maintains an extensive team of information technology and cybersecurity professionals with the skills required to perform activities for containment, operational resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics is complex and calls for close cooperation with the teams focused on file cleanup and, if necessary, payment discussions with the ransomware attacker. forensics can require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to detect variations.

Activities involved with forensics investigation include:

• Detach without shutting off all potentially impacted devices from the network. This may require closing all RDP ports and Internet connected NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing two-factor authentication to protect backups.
• Copy forensically sound images of all suspect devices so your data recovery group can get started
• Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and other key logs as quickly as possible
• Establish the type of ransomware involved in the attack
• Examine every computer and storage device on the network including cloud-hosted storage for indications of encryption
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Review logs and sessions in order to establish the time frame of the assault and to spot any possible sideways movement from the first compromised system
• Understand the attack vectors exploited to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Search for the creation of executables associated with the first encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze email attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in messages and determine if they are malicious
• Produce extensive incident reporting to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
• List recommended improvements to shore up security gaps and improve processes that lower the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Expertise in Minneapolis
To learn more about ways Progent can help your Minneapolis business with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.