Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Durham

Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting Services in Durham
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without slowing down the processes required for operational continuity and data recovery. Your Durham business can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics report to block future ransomware attacks, assist in the cleanup of lost data, and comply with insurance carrier and governmental mandates.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at determining and documenting the ransomware assault's progress throughout the network from beginning to end. This audit trail of how a ransomware assault travelled through the network helps you to assess the damage and highlights shortcomings in policies or work habits that need to be rectified to prevent future break-ins. Forensics is commonly assigned a top priority by the insurance provider and is often mandated by government and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can take time, it is critical that other key activities such as business continuity are pursued concurrently. Progent maintains a large roster of IT and data security professionals with the skills required to perform activities for containment, operational resumption, and data restoration without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics analysis is time consuming and requires intimate interaction with the teams responsible for data cleanup and, if needed, payment talks with the ransomware threat actor. Ransomware forensics typically require the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to check for anomalies.

Services involved with forensics investigation include:

• Detach without shutting down all possibly affected devices from the system. This may involve closing all RDP ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and configuring 2FA to guard backups.
• Create forensically sound images of all exposed devices so your file recovery group can get started
• Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and additional key logs as soon as feasible
• Identify the version of ransomware used in the assault
• Survey every computer and storage device on the system as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Study log activity and user sessions in order to establish the timeline of the ransomware assault and to spot any possible sideways movement from the originally infected machine
• Understand the security gaps used to carry out the ransomware assault
• Search for new executables associated with the original encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine attachments
• Separate URLs from messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Produce comprehensive attack reporting to satisfy your insurance and compliance mandates
• Suggest recommended improvements to close cybersecurity gaps and improve workflows that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

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