Ransomware Response Services in Knoxville
Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Documentation
Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting Services in Knoxville
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the evidence of a ransomware assault and carry out a detailed forensics investigation without impeding activity related to operational resumption and data recovery. Your Knoxville organization can use Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics documentation to combat future ransomware attacks, validate the restoration of lost data, and comply with insurance carrier and governmental requirements.
Ransomware forensics analysis involves determining and documenting the ransomware assault's storyline across the targeted network from start to finish. This audit trail of the way a ransomware attack progressed through the network helps you to assess the damage and highlights gaps in policies or processes that should be rectified to prevent future break-ins. Forensic analysis is commonly given a top priority by the insurance provider and is often required by state and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is vital that other key activities such as business continuity are pursued in parallel. Progent has a large roster of IT and data security professionals with the skills required to carry out the work of containment, business continuity, and data restoration without interfering with forensic analysis.
Ransomware forensics is time consuming and calls for intimate cooperation with the groups responsible for file cleanup and, if needed, payment negotiation with the ransomware attacker. Ransomware forensics typically require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to check for changes.
Activities associated with forensics include:
- Isolate but avoid shutting off all potentially suspect devices from the network. This may involve closing all RDP ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring 2FA to protect backups.
- Copy forensically sound digital images of all suspect devices so your data restoration team can proceed
- Save firewall, virtual private network, and other critical logs as soon as possible
- Identify the type of ransomware involved in the assault
- Examine each machine and storage device on the network including cloud storage for indications of encryption
- Catalog all encrypted devices
- Determine the type of ransomware involved in the assault
- Study logs and sessions in order to determine the time frame of the attack and to spot any possible lateral migration from the originally compromised machine
- Identify the security gaps exploited to perpetrate the ransomware assault
- Search for the creation of executables surrounding the original encrypted files or system compromise
- Parse Outlook PST files
- Analyze attachments
- Extract URLs from email messages and check to see if they are malware
- Produce extensive attack reporting to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
- List recommendations to close cybersecurity gaps and improve workflows that reduce the risk of a future ransomware exploit
Progent has provided remote and onsite IT services throughout the U.S. for more than two decades and has earned Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's roster of subject matter experts (SMEs) includes consultants who have been awarded high-level certifications in foundation technologies including Cisco networking, VMware virtualization, and major distributions of Linux. Progent's cybersecurity experts have earned prestigious certifications such as CISM, CISSP-ISSAP, and GIAC. (Refer to Progent's certifications). Progent also has guidance in financial and Enterprise Resource Planning software. This broad array of skills allows Progent to salvage and consolidate the surviving pieces of your information system after a ransomware assault and reconstruct them rapidly into a functioning network. Progent has worked with top cyber insurance providers like Chubb to help businesses recover from ransomware assaults.
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