Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Sorocaba
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can capture the evidence of a ransomware attack and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without interfering with activity required for operational resumption and data recovery. Your Sorocaba business can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics report to combat future ransomware attacks, assist in the recovery of lost data, and comply with insurance and regulatory mandates.
Ransomware forensics investigation involves determining and documenting the ransomware assault's progress across the network from start to finish. This history of how a ransomware assault progressed through the network assists you to evaluate the damage and highlights weaknesses in rules or processes that need to be corrected to prevent future breaches. Forensics is usually given a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically required by state and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is critical that other key activities such as business resumption are executed concurrently. Progent has a large team of IT and data security professionals with the skills needed to perform activities for containment, business continuity, and data restoration without interfering with forensics.
Ransomware forensics investigation is arduous and calls for intimate cooperation with the groups focused on data recovery and, if necessary, payment talks with the ransomware threat actor. Ransomware forensics can involve the review of logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to look for anomalies.
Services associated with forensics investigation include:
- Disconnect but avoid shutting down all possibly impacted devices from the network. This may involve closing all RDP ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and implementing 2FA to guard backups.
- Copy forensically valid images of all exposed devices so your data recovery team can proceed
- Preserve firewall, VPN, and other critical logs as quickly as possible
- Identify the version of ransomware used in the assault
- Examine each machine and storage device on the system as well as cloud storage for indications of compromise
- Catalog all encrypted devices
- Establish the type of ransomware involved in the attack
- Review log activity and sessions to determine the time frame of the attack and to identify any potential lateral migration from the originally infected machine
- Identify the attack vectors exploited to perpetrate the ransomware attack
- Look for the creation of executables surrounding the first encrypted files or system breach
- Parse Outlook PST files
- Examine email attachments
- Separate any URLs embedded in messages and determine if they are malware
- Produce detailed attack documentation to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
- Document recommendations to shore up cybersecurity vulnerabilities and enforce workflows that reduce the risk of a future ransomware exploit
Progent's Background
Progent has delivered online and onsite IT services across the United States for more than two decades and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's roster of subject matter experts (SMEs) includes consultants who have earned high-level certifications in core technologies including Cisco networking, VMware, and popular Linux distros. Progent's cybersecurity consultants have earned prestigious certifications including CISM, CISSP, and CRISC. (Refer to certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also offers top-tier support in financial and ERP applications. This scope of expertise gives Progent the ability to salvage and integrate the undamaged pieces of your information system after a ransomware intrusion and rebuild them rapidly into a functioning network. Progent has collaborated with leading cyber insurance providers like Chubb to help organizations recover from ransomware assaults.
Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Expertise in Sorocaba
To learn more about how Progent can assist your Sorocaba organization with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.