Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Louisville

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in Louisville
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without disrupting the processes required for operational resumption and data restoration. Your Louisville organization can utilize Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics report to counter future ransomware attacks, assist in the cleanup of encrypted data, and meet insurance and governmental requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at determining and describing the ransomware assault's storyline across the network from start to finish. This history of the way a ransomware attack travelled through the network assists you to evaluate the impact and highlights shortcomings in security policies or processes that should be corrected to avoid later breaches. Forensic analysis is commonly assigned a high priority by the insurance carrier and is typically required by government and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is vital that other important recovery processes like business continuity are performed in parallel. Progent maintains an extensive team of IT and data security experts with the skills required to carry out activities for containment, operational continuity, and data restoration without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is arduous and calls for close interaction with the teams responsible for data restoration and, if needed, settlement discussions with the ransomware hacker. Ransomware forensics can involve the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to look for changes.

Activities involved with forensics analysis include:

• Detach without shutting off all potentially suspect devices from the network. This may require closing all RDP ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up two-factor authentication to protect your backups.
• Preserve forensically sound duplicates of all exposed devices so your file restoration team can get started
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and additional key logs as quickly as possible
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Survey every computer and data store on the network as well as cloud storage for indications of compromise
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Study log activity and user sessions to establish the timeline of the assault and to identify any possible sideways migration from the first compromised machine
• Identify the attack vectors exploited to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Look for new executables associated with the first encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze email attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in messages and determine if they are malware
• Produce comprehensive incident reporting to satisfy your insurance and compliance requirements
• Document recommended improvements to shore up security vulnerabilities and improve workflows that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Expertise in Louisville
To learn more about how Progent can assist your Louisville organization with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.