Ransomware Response Consultants in Montgomery

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting Services in Montgomery
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the evidence of a ransomware attack and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without impeding the processes related to business continuity and data restoration. Your Montgomery business can use Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics report to combat future ransomware assaults, validate the cleanup of lost data, and meet insurance and governmental mandates.

Ransomware forensics investigation is aimed at discovering and describing the ransomware attack's storyline throughout the targeted network from beginning to end. This audit trail of how a ransomware assault travelled within the network helps you to evaluate the damage and highlights vulnerabilities in security policies or work habits that need to be corrected to avoid future break-ins. Forensic analysis is commonly given a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically mandated by state and industry regulations. Because forensics can be time consuming, it is critical that other key activities like operational resumption are performed in parallel. Progent maintains a large roster of information technology and data security experts with the skills needed to perform the work of containment, business resumption, and data recovery without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics is complicated and calls for close cooperation with the teams responsible for file recovery and, if necessary, payment negotiation with the ransomware adversary. Ransomware forensics typically involve the review of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to detect anomalies.

Activities involved with forensics analysis include:

• Disconnect without shutting down all potentially impacted devices from the system. This may require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing 2FA to guard your backups.
• Copy forensically valid images of all exposed devices so the data restoration team can proceed
• Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and additional key logs as quickly as possible
• Establish the version of ransomware used in the assault
• Inspect every computer and storage device on the network including cloud storage for signs of encryption
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Study log activity and user sessions to establish the timeline of the ransomware attack and to spot any possible sideways migration from the first infected machine
• Identify the security gaps used to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Look for new executables associated with the original encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze attachments
• Extract URLs from messages and check to see if they are malicious
• Produce extensive incident reporting to meet your insurance carrier and compliance regulations
• Suggest recommended improvements to shore up cybersecurity gaps and enforce workflows that reduce the risk of a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Expertise in Montgomery
To learn more information about ways Progent can assist your Montgomery organization with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.