Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Dallas

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting Services in Dallas
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a detailed forensics analysis without slowing down activity required for operational resumption and data restoration. Your Dallas business can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics documentation to counter future ransomware attacks, assist in the cleanup of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory requirements.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at tracking and describing the ransomware assault's storyline throughout the network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware attack travelled through the network assists you to evaluate the damage and highlights weaknesses in security policies or processes that need to be corrected to prevent future break-ins. Forensic analysis is typically assigned a high priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically required by state and industry regulations. Because forensics can be time consuming, it is critical that other key activities such as business continuity are performed concurrently. Progent maintains a large team of information technology and security professionals with the knowledge and experience required to perform activities for containment, operational continuity, and data recovery without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics is arduous and requires intimate cooperation with the teams focused on data recovery and, if needed, settlement discussions with the ransomware threat actor. Ransomware forensics can require the examination of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to look for changes.

Activities associated with forensics include:

• Isolate but avoid shutting down all potentially impacted devices from the network. This can involve closing all RDP ports and Internet facing NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and setting up 2FA to guard backups.
• Create forensically sound images of all suspect devices so your data recovery group can proceed
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and other key logs as quickly as possible
• Establish the type of ransomware used in the assault
• Examine each computer and data store on the system including cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Review logs and sessions in order to determine the time frame of the assault and to identify any possible sideways migration from the originally infected system
• Understand the security gaps used to carry out the ransomware assault
• Look for the creation of executables surrounding the first encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze attachments
• Separate any URLs embedded in email messages and determine if they are malware
• Provide detailed attack reporting to satisfy your insurance and compliance mandates
• List recommendations to close security gaps and improve processes that lower the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Expertise in Dallas
To find out more about ways Progent can help your Dallas business with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.