Ransomware Response Services in Allen

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting in Allen
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without interfering with activity related to operational resumption and data restoration. Your Allen organization can use Progent's forensics report to combat future ransomware attacks, validate the restoration of lost data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation involves determining and documenting the ransomware assault's progress throughout the targeted network from beginning to end. This audit trail of how a ransomware assault progressed within the network helps your IT staff to assess the damage and brings to light gaps in security policies or work habits that need to be corrected to avoid future breaches. Forensic analysis is typically assigned a high priority by the insurance carrier and is often required by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is vital that other key activities such as operational continuity are pursued in parallel. Progent maintains a large team of IT and cybersecurity professionals with the skills needed to carry out activities for containment, business resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics is complicated and requires intimate interaction with the groups focused on file cleanup and, if needed, payment negotiation with the ransomware adversary. forensics typically require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, AD, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to check for anomalies.

Services involved with forensics include:

• Disconnect without shutting down all possibly affected devices from the system. This can require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up two-factor authentication to protect your backups.
• Preserve forensically sound duplicates of all exposed devices so the file recovery group can get started
• Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and other critical logs as quickly as feasible
• Identify the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Examine each computer and data store on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for signs of compromise
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Study logs and sessions to establish the time frame of the assault and to identify any possible sideways movement from the first infected machine
• Identify the security gaps exploited to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Look for new executables associated with the original encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze attachments
• Extract any URLs embedded in email messages and check to see if they are malicious
• Produce detailed attack documentation to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
• List recommended improvements to shore up cybersecurity gaps and enforce processes that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Expertise in Allen
To find out more about how Progent can help your Allen organization with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.