Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in London

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in London
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a detailed forensics investigation without slowing down activity required for business resumption and data restoration. Your London organization can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics documentation to counter future ransomware attacks, assist in the restoration of lost data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory mandates.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at discovering and describing the ransomware attack's progress across the targeted network from beginning to end. This audit trail of how a ransomware attack travelled within the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the impact and highlights weaknesses in policies or work habits that should be corrected to prevent later break-ins. Forensics is commonly given a high priority by the cyber insurance provider and is often required by government and industry regulations. Since forensics can be time consuming, it is vital that other important recovery processes such as business resumption are performed in parallel. Progent maintains an extensive team of information technology and data security experts with the skills required to perform activities for containment, operational resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is complicated and calls for close interaction with the teams responsible for file restoration and, if necessary, settlement negotiation with the ransomware threat actor. Ransomware forensics can require the review of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to detect changes.

Services associated with forensics include:

• Disconnect without shutting down all potentially affected devices from the network. This can involve closing all RDP ports and Internet facing NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up two-factor authentication to secure backups.
• Copy forensically valid images of all suspect devices so your data recovery team can get started
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and additional critical logs as quickly as possible
• Establish the type of ransomware involved in the assault
• Examine every machine and data store on the system including cloud storage for signs of encryption
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Establish the type of ransomware used in the attack
• Study log activity and sessions to determine the time frame of the ransomware assault and to identify any potential sideways migration from the originally infected machine
• Identify the security gaps used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Search for new executables associated with the original encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze email attachments
• Separate URLs embedded in email messages and determine if they are malicious
• Produce detailed attack documentation to satisfy your insurance and compliance mandates
• Suggest recommended improvements to shore up security gaps and enforce workflows that lower the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Expertise in London
To learn more about how Progent can assist your London business with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.