Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Mesa

Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting Services in Mesa
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the evidence of a ransomware attack and perform a detailed forensics analysis without slowing down activity related to operational resumption and data restoration. Your Mesa business can utilize Progent's forensics documentation to block future ransomware attacks, validate the cleanup of lost data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory mandates.

Ransomware forensics analysis involves discovering and describing the ransomware attack's storyline across the targeted network from start to finish. This audit trail of the way a ransomware attack travelled within the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the damage and uncovers gaps in security policies or work habits that need to be rectified to prevent later break-ins. Forensics is typically given a high priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically mandated by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can take time, it is vital that other important activities like operational continuity are executed in parallel. Progent maintains an extensive team of information technology and cybersecurity experts with the skills required to perform activities for containment, operational resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is time consuming and calls for intimate interaction with the groups responsible for file cleanup and, if needed, payment negotiation with the ransomware threat actor. Ransomware forensics can involve the review of logs, registry, GPO, AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to detect anomalies.

Services associated with forensics analysis include:

• Isolate but avoid shutting down all potentially suspect devices from the network. This may require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up two-factor authentication to guard backups.
• Preserve forensically sound images of all suspect devices so the file restoration team can get started
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and other critical logs as soon as feasible
• Identify the type of ransomware involved in the attack
• Examine each computer and data store on the network as well as cloud storage for indications of encryption
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Review logs and user sessions in order to establish the time frame of the ransomware assault and to spot any possible sideways movement from the originally compromised machine
• Identify the security gaps used to carry out the ransomware assault
• Search for the creation of executables surrounding the original encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze attachments
• Separate any URLs from messages and determine whether they are malicious
• Produce comprehensive attack reporting to meet your insurance and compliance mandates
• Document recommendations to shore up cybersecurity gaps and improve workflows that reduce the risk of a future ransomware breach

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