Ransomware Response Consultants in Toronto
Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Regulatory Reporting
Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting Services in Toronto
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can capture the evidence of a ransomware attack and carry out a comprehensive forensics analysis without impeding the processes related to business continuity and data restoration. Your Toronto organization can utilize Progent's forensics documentation to block future ransomware assaults, validate the cleanup of encrypted data, and comply with insurance carrier and regulatory mandates.
Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at tracking and describing the ransomware attack's storyline across the targeted network from start to finish. This history of the way a ransomware assault progressed within the network helps your IT staff to evaluate the impact and highlights weaknesses in policies or processes that should be corrected to avoid later breaches. Forensics is usually assigned a high priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often mandated by government and industry regulations. Since forensics can be time consuming, it is critical that other key activities such as operational resumption are performed concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive roster of IT and data security experts with the knowledge and experience required to carry out activities for containment, operational continuity, and data restoration without disrupting forensics.
Ransomware forensics analysis is arduous and requires close cooperation with the teams assigned to file recovery and, if needed, settlement negotiation with the ransomware threat actor. Ransomware forensics can require the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to detect variations.
Services involved with forensics include:
- Isolate but avoid shutting down all potentially impacted devices from the network. This can involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and setting up 2FA to protect your backups.
- Copy forensically valid digital images of all exposed devices so the file recovery team can proceed
- Save firewall, VPN, and other key logs as soon as feasible
- Identify the type of ransomware used in the attack
- Examine each machine and data store on the system including cloud storage for indications of compromise
- Catalog all encrypted devices
- Establish the kind of ransomware used in the attack
- Study log activity and user sessions to establish the time frame of the ransomware attack and to spot any possible sideways movement from the first compromised machine
- Identify the security gaps used to perpetrate the ransomware assault
- Look for the creation of executables surrounding the original encrypted files or system compromise
- Parse Outlook PST files
- Analyze email attachments
- Separate any URLs embedded in messages and determine if they are malware
- Provide extensive attack reporting to meet your insurance carrier and compliance regulations
- Suggest recommendations to shore up security gaps and enforce processes that lower the risk of a future ransomware exploit
Progent has delivered online and on-premises network services across the U.S. for over two decades and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's team of SMEs includes professionals who have been awarded advanced certifications in foundation technologies such as Cisco networking, VMware virtualization, and major distributions of Linux. Progent's data security experts have earned internationally recognized certifications such as CISM, CISSP-ISSAP, and GIAC. (Refer to certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also has top-tier support in financial and ERP software. This broad array of expertise allows Progent to identify and integrate the undamaged parts of your network following a ransomware attack and reconstruct them rapidly into an operational network. Progent has collaborated with leading cyber insurance providers like Chubb to assist organizations recover from ransomware assaults.
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