Ransomware Response Consulting Services in San Bernardino

Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in San Bernardino
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the evidence of a ransomware attack and perform a detailed forensics investigation without disrupting the processes related to operational continuity and data restoration. Your San Bernardino business can use Progent's ransomware forensics documentation to combat subsequent ransomware attacks, validate the cleanup of encrypted data, and meet insurance and regulatory reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation is aimed at determining and documenting the ransomware attack's progress across the targeted network from start to finish. This audit trail of how a ransomware assault progressed through the network assists you to evaluate the impact and brings to light weaknesses in security policies or work habits that should be rectified to prevent later breaches. Forensics is typically assigned a top priority by the cyber insurance provider and is often mandated by government and industry regulations. Because forensics can take time, it is critical that other key activities like business continuity are performed in parallel. Progent maintains a large team of information technology and cybersecurity professionals with the skills required to carry out activities for containment, business continuity, and data restoration without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics is time consuming and requires close interaction with the groups assigned to data restoration and, if needed, payment discussions with the ransomware hacker. Ransomware forensics can require the review of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to detect anomalies.

Activities associated with forensics investigation include:

• Disconnect but avoid shutting down all possibly impacted devices from the network. This can involve closing all RDP ports and Internet facing NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and configuring two-factor authentication to guard your backups.
• Preserve forensically valid images of all suspect devices so your file recovery team can proceed
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and other critical logs as quickly as possible
• Identify the type of ransomware used in the assault
• Survey each computer and storage device on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for signs of encryption
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Review log activity and sessions in order to establish the time frame of the ransomware assault and to spot any potential lateral migration from the originally compromised system
• Identify the security gaps used to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Search for new executables surrounding the original encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine email attachments
• Extract any URLs embedded in messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Provide extensive attack reporting to meet your insurance carrier and compliance regulations
• Document recommended improvements to shore up security vulnerabilities and improve processes that lower the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Services in San Bernardino
To find out more information about how Progent can assist your San Bernardino business with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.