Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Grand Rapids

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting in Grand Rapids
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the evidence of a ransomware attack and perform a detailed forensics investigation without slowing down the processes required for business resumption and data recovery. Your Grand Rapids business can utilize Progent's ransomware forensics report to combat future ransomware attacks, validate the recovery of encrypted data, and comply with insurance and governmental mandates.

Ransomware forensics involves determining and describing the ransomware attack's storyline throughout the targeted network from start to finish. This audit trail of how a ransomware assault travelled within the network assists you to evaluate the damage and brings to light shortcomings in policies or work habits that need to be corrected to prevent future breaches. Forensics is commonly given a top priority by the insurance provider and is often required by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is critical that other important recovery processes like business continuity are performed in parallel. Progent maintains a large team of IT and data security professionals with the skills needed to perform activities for containment, operational resumption, and data recovery without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics analysis is complex and requires intimate interaction with the groups assigned to data restoration and, if necessary, settlement discussions with the ransomware hacker. forensics typically require the review of all logs, registry, GPO, AD, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to look for variations.

Activities involved with forensics include:

• Isolate but avoid shutting off all possibly suspect devices from the network. This may involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing two-factor authentication to protect your backups.
• Capture forensically valid digital 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 feasible
• Identify the version of ransomware used in the attack
• Examine each machine and data store on the network including cloud-hosted storage for indications of encryption
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Study logs and user sessions to determine the time frame of the ransomware assault and to spot any possible sideways migration from the first compromised machine
• Understand the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Look for the creation of executables surrounding the original encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze email attachments
• Extract URLs from messages and determine if they are malicious
• Provide comprehensive attack reporting to meet your insurance and compliance regulations
• List recommendations to close security gaps and improve processes that lower the risk of a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Services in Grand Rapids
To learn more information about ways Progent can help your Grand Rapids business with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.