Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Rochester

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Rochester
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without slowing down the processes required for business continuity and data restoration. Your Rochester organization can use Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics documentation to counter subsequent ransomware assaults, assist in the restoration of encrypted data, and comply with insurance carrier and regulatory mandates.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at tracking and describing the ransomware assault's progress across the targeted network from start to finish. This history of the way a ransomware assault progressed within the network assists your IT staff to assess the impact and highlights weaknesses in security policies or work habits that should be corrected to avoid later break-ins. Forensics is typically assigned a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often mandated by state and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is vital that other important activities such as operational resumption are pursued in parallel. Progent maintains a large team of IT and cybersecurity professionals with the skills needed to perform activities for containment, business continuity, and data restoration without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is complicated and requires intimate cooperation with the groups responsible for file cleanup and, if needed, payment negotiation with the ransomware attacker. forensics typically require the review of all logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to check for variations.

Activities associated with forensics include:

• Isolate but avoid shutting down all potentially impacted devices from the network. This may require closing all RDP ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing 2FA to guard your backups.
• Preserve forensically valid digital images of all suspect devices so your data recovery group can proceed
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and other key logs as quickly as feasible
• Identify the strain of ransomware involved in the attack
• Inspect every machine and storage device on the network including cloud storage for signs of encryption
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Determine the type of ransomware involved in the attack
• Study log activity and sessions in order to determine the timeline of the assault and to identify any possible lateral migration from the originally compromised machine
• Understand the attack vectors exploited to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Look for the creation of executables surrounding the original encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine attachments
• Separate any URLs embedded in messages and determine if they are malware
• Produce detailed incident documentation to meet your insurance carrier and compliance regulations
• Document recommendations to shore up cybersecurity gaps and enforce processes that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Services in Rochester
To learn more about ways Progent can assist your Rochester organization with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.