Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Raleigh

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting in Raleigh
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can save the evidence of a ransomware assault and carry out a detailed forensics investigation without slowing down the processes related to business continuity and data restoration. Your Raleigh business can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics documentation to block future ransomware attacks, assist in the restoration of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and governmental requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation is aimed at tracking and documenting the ransomware attack's storyline throughout the targeted network from start to finish. This history of how a ransomware attack travelled through the network helps your IT staff to evaluate the impact and highlights shortcomings in policies or processes that need to be corrected to avoid future breaches. Forensic analysis is commonly assigned a high priority by the cyber insurance provider and is often mandated by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is critical that other key activities like operational continuity are performed concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive roster of IT and security experts with the skills required to perform activities for containment, business resumption, and data restoration without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics is complicated and calls for close interaction with the groups responsible for file recovery and, if needed, settlement discussions with the ransomware hacker. Ransomware forensics typically require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to check for changes.

Activities associated with forensics analysis include:

• Detach without shutting down all possibly impacted devices from the network. This may require closing all RDP ports and Internet connected NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring 2FA to guard backups.
• Create forensically valid images of all exposed devices so the file restoration group can proceed
• Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and additional key logs as soon as possible
• Determine the version of ransomware involved in the assault
• Survey each machine and data store on the system including cloud-hosted storage for signs of encryption
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Study logs and sessions in order to establish the time frame of the attack and to identify any potential sideways movement from the first infected system
• Identify the security gaps used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Search for new executables surrounding the original encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze attachments
• Separate any URLs from messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Produce extensive attack documentation to meet your insurance and compliance mandates
• Suggest recommended improvements to close security gaps and improve processes that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Expertise in Raleigh
To find out more about ways Progent can help your Raleigh business with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.