Ransomware Response Services in Lexington-Fayette

Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting Services in Lexington-Fayette
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware assault and carry out a detailed forensics investigation without impeding the processes required for business resumption and data recovery. Your Lexington-Fayette business can use Progent's ransomware forensics documentation to counter subsequent ransomware assaults, assist in the recovery of lost data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis involves discovering and describing 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 your IT staff to assess the damage and uncovers shortcomings in security policies or processes that need to be corrected to prevent future breaches. Forensic analysis is commonly assigned a high priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically required by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is essential that other key activities such as business continuity are executed concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive roster of IT and security professionals with the knowledge and experience needed to perform activities for containment, operational resumption, and data recovery without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics analysis is time consuming and calls for close cooperation with the teams assigned to data cleanup and, if needed, settlement talks with the ransomware hacker. forensics can involve the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, AD, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to look for changes.

Activities involved with forensics analysis include:

• Disconnect but avoid shutting down all possibly impacted devices from the network. This may require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring two-factor authentication to secure your backups.
• Preserve forensically sound images of all exposed devices so your data recovery team can get started
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and additional key logs as soon as possible
• Determine the variety of ransomware involved in the attack
• Examine each computer and data store on the network including cloud-hosted storage for indications of encryption
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Determine the type of ransomware used in the assault
• Review logs and user sessions in order to establish the timeline of the ransomware attack and to spot any possible sideways migration from the first compromised machine
• Identify the security gaps used to carry out the ransomware assault
• Look for the creation of executables associated with the original encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine email attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in email messages and determine if they are malicious
• Produce detailed attack reporting to meet your insurance carrier and compliance regulations
• Suggest recommended improvements to close cybersecurity gaps and improve processes that reduce the risk of a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Services in Lexington-Fayette
To find out more information about ways Progent can help your Lexington-Fayette organization with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.