Ransomware Response Services in Riverside

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting in Riverside
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the evidence of a ransomware attack and perform a detailed forensics analysis without disrupting activity required for business continuity and data recovery. Your Riverside business can use Progent's ransomware forensics documentation to block future ransomware assaults, validate the restoration of lost data, and meet insurance carrier and governmental requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at discovering and documenting the ransomware attack's progress across the network from beginning to end. This audit trail of how a ransomware attack progressed through the network assists your IT staff to assess the damage and highlights weaknesses in rules or processes that should be corrected to prevent later break-ins. Forensics is usually assigned a top priority by the insurance carrier and is often required by state and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is vital that other key recovery processes such as operational resumption are pursued in parallel. Progent maintains an extensive roster of IT and cybersecurity experts with the knowledge and experience needed to carry out activities for containment, business continuity, and data restoration without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is arduous and requires close cooperation with the groups focused on file restoration and, if necessary, payment negotiation with the ransomware adversary. Ransomware forensics can require the review of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to detect anomalies.

Activities involved with forensics include:

• Detach but avoid shutting down all possibly impacted devices from the network. This may require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and setting up 2FA to protect your backups.
• Capture forensically sound duplicates of all suspect devices so your file restoration team can get started
• Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and additional key logs as soon as possible
• Determine the variety of ransomware involved in the assault
• Examine every computer and data store on the network as well as cloud storage for indications of encryption
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Determine the type of ransomware involved in the assault
• Review log activity and user sessions to establish the timeline of the attack and to identify any potential sideways movement from the first compromised machine
• Identify the attack vectors exploited to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Search for new executables associated with the first encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in messages and determine if they are malware
• Produce comprehensive attack documentation to meet your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
• Document recommended improvements to shore up security gaps and enforce workflows that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware breach

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