Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Santa Rosa

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting in Santa Rosa
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the system state after a ransomware assault and carry out a comprehensive forensics investigation without disrupting the processes required for business continuity and data restoration. Your Santa Rosa business can utilize Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics report to counter subsequent ransomware assaults, validate the recovery of lost data, and comply with insurance and regulatory mandates.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at determining and documenting the ransomware attack's progress throughout the network from start to finish. This history of the way a ransomware attack progressed within the network helps your IT staff to assess the damage and highlights shortcomings in security policies or processes that need to be corrected to prevent later break-ins. Forensic analysis is commonly assigned a high priority by the insurance provider and is typically mandated by government and industry regulations. Since forensics can be time consuming, it is vital that other important activities like business resumption are executed concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive roster of IT and data security experts with the skills required to carry out the work of containment, business resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics is time consuming and requires intimate interaction with the groups assigned to data cleanup and, if necessary, settlement talks with the ransomware hacker. forensics typically involve the examination of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object, AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to check for changes.

Activities involved with forensics analysis include:

• Disconnect without shutting down all potentially suspect devices from the system. This may require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing two-factor authentication to secure your backups.
• Preserve forensically sound images of all exposed devices so the file restoration team can get started
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and other key logs as quickly as feasible
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Survey every computer and data store on the system as well as cloud storage for signs of compromise
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Determine the type of ransomware used in the attack
• Study logs and user sessions to determine the timeline of the assault and to identify any potential sideways movement from the originally compromised system
• Identify the security gaps used to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Look for new executables associated with the original encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze attachments
• Extract any URLs from email messages and determine if they are malicious
• Produce detailed incident reporting to meet your insurance carrier and compliance mandates
• Suggest recommendations to close security vulnerabilities and improve processes that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Expertise in Santa Rosa
To learn more information about ways Progent can help your Santa Rosa business with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.