Ransomware Response Services in Pittsburgh

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in Pittsburgh
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a detailed forensics investigation without slowing down the processes related to operational continuity and data recovery. Your Pittsburgh organization can use Progent's post-attack forensics report to block subsequent ransomware assaults, validate the recovery of lost data, and comply with insurance carrier and regulatory mandates.

Ransomware forensics analysis involves discovering and documenting the ransomware attack's progress across the network from start to finish. This history of how a ransomware attack travelled through the network helps your IT staff to evaluate the impact and brings to light gaps in rules or processes that need to be rectified to avoid future break-ins. Forensic analysis is usually given a high priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often mandated by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can take time, it is critical that other key recovery processes such as operational continuity are performed concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive team of information technology and data security professionals with the knowledge and experience needed to carry out the work of containment, business resumption, and data recovery without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics analysis is complex and requires close cooperation with the groups responsible for data recovery and, if necessary, settlement negotiation with the ransomware adversary. forensics typically require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to check for variations.

Activities associated with forensics include:

• Isolate but avoid shutting off all potentially affected devices from the system. This may involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing 2FA to guard backups.
• Create forensically valid duplicates of all exposed devices so your file recovery team can proceed
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and additional key logs as quickly as possible
• Determine the type of ransomware used in the attack
• Examine every computer and storage device on the network as well as cloud storage for indications of encryption
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Establish the type of ransomware involved in the assault
• Review log activity and user sessions in order to determine the time frame of the ransomware attack and to spot any possible sideways movement from the originally infected machine
• Identify the attack vectors exploited to carry out the ransomware attack
• Look for the creation of executables associated with the original encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Produce detailed incident reporting to meet your insurance and compliance mandates
• Document recommended improvements to close security gaps and improve processes that lower the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Services in Pittsburgh
To find out more information about how Progent can help your Pittsburgh business with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.