Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting Services in Guadalajara
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can capture the system state after a ransomware attack and carry out a comprehensive forensics analysis without disrupting activity related to operational continuity and data recovery. Your Guadalajara business can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics documentation to combat subsequent ransomware assaults, assist in the recovery of lost data, and comply with insurance carrier and regulatory reporting requirements.
Ransomware forensics analysis involves discovering and describing the ransomware attack's progress across the targeted network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware assault travelled through the network assists you to assess the impact and uncovers gaps in security policies or processes that need to be rectified to avoid later break-ins. Forensics is commonly given a high priority by the insurance provider and is typically required by state and industry regulations. Since forensics can be time consuming, it is critical that other key activities like business resumption are executed concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive team of information technology and data security professionals with the skills needed to perform the work of containment, business resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensics.
Ransomware forensics is arduous and requires close interaction with the groups focused on data restoration and, if necessary, payment negotiation with the ransomware threat actor. forensics can involve the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to detect variations.
Services associated with forensics investigation include:
- Isolate without shutting off all potentially suspect devices from the system. This can require closing all RDP ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring 2FA to secure backups.
- Copy forensically complete duplicates of all suspect devices so your data recovery team can get started
- Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and other key logs as quickly as possible
- Establish the version of ransomware used in the attack
- Examine each machine and data store on the network as well as cloud storage for signs of compromise
- Catalog all compromised devices
- Establish the type of ransomware used in the assault
- Study logs and user sessions to determine the time frame of the ransomware attack and to spot any possible lateral migration from the originally infected machine
- Understand the security gaps exploited to perpetrate the ransomware attack
- Search for the creation of executables associated with the original encrypted files or network breach
- Parse Outlook web archives
- Analyze email attachments
- Separate URLs from email messages and check to see if they are malware
- Produce detailed attack documentation to meet your insurance carrier and compliance regulations
- Suggest recommended improvements to shore up security gaps and improve workflows that reduce the risk of a future ransomware exploit
Progent's Background
Progent has delivered online and on-premises IT services throughout the United States for over 20 years and has earned Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's roster of SMEs includes consultants who have earned high-level certifications in core technology platforms such as Cisco infrastructure, VMware virtualization, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's data security consultants have earned internationally recognized certifications including CISA, CISSP, and GIAC. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also offers guidance in financial and ERP application software. This broad array of skills gives Progent the ability to identify and integrate the surviving pieces of your information system after a ransomware assault and reconstruct them quickly into a viable system. Progent has worked with leading cyber insurance providers like Chubb to assist businesses clean up after ransomware assaults.
Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Services in Guadalajara
To learn more about how Progent can assist your Guadalajara organization with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.