Ransomware Response Services in Jacksonville

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in Jacksonville
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the evidence of a ransomware attack and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without impeding activity required for business resumption and data restoration. Your Jacksonville business can utilize Progent's ransomware forensics report to block subsequent ransomware attacks, assist in the restoration of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at tracking and describing the ransomware assault's storyline throughout the network from beginning to end. This history of the way a ransomware attack progressed within the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the impact and highlights gaps in security policies or work habits that need to be rectified to avoid later break-ins. Forensics is typically given a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often required by state and industry regulations. Since forensics can be time consuming, it is critical that other important recovery processes like operational continuity are executed in parallel. Progent maintains a large team of information technology and cybersecurity professionals with the skills needed to perform activities for containment, operational resumption, and data recovery without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics analysis is time consuming and calls for close interaction with the teams focused on file recovery and, if needed, payment discussions with the ransomware adversary. Ransomware forensics typically require the examination of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to check for anomalies.

Services involved with forensics include:

• Isolate but avoid shutting off all potentially affected devices from the network. This may involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring two-factor authentication to secure backups.
• Preserve forensically valid images of all suspect devices so the file restoration group can proceed
• Save firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as soon as feasible
• Determine the strain of ransomware used in the attack
• Inspect each machine and data store on the network including cloud-hosted storage for signs of compromise
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Study logs and sessions to determine the time frame of the attack and to identify any potential lateral movement from the first infected machine
• Understand the security gaps used to carry out the ransomware assault
• Look for the creation of executables surrounding the first encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze email attachments
• Extract any URLs embedded in messages and determine whether they are malware
• Provide detailed attack reporting to meet your insurance and compliance requirements
• List recommendations to close security gaps and improve processes that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Expertise in Jacksonville
To learn more about ways Progent can assist your Jacksonville organization with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.