Ransomware Response Consultants in Sandy Springs

Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Sandy Springs
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a detailed forensics investigation without impeding activity required for business continuity and data restoration. Your Sandy Springs business can use Progent's forensics documentation to counter future ransomware attacks, validate the cleanup of lost data, and comply with insurance and regulatory requirements.

Ransomware forensics involves tracking and describing the ransomware assault's storyline throughout the network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware assault travelled through the network helps you to evaluate the damage and highlights gaps in policies or work habits that need to be corrected to prevent future break-ins. Forensics is usually given a high priority by the insurance provider and is typically mandated by government and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is essential that other key recovery processes like operational continuity are pursued concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive roster of information technology and security professionals with the skills required to perform the work of containment, business resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics is arduous and requires close cooperation with the teams assigned to file cleanup and, if necessary, settlement discussions with the ransomware hacker. Ransomware forensics can involve the examination of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to detect anomalies.

Activities involved with forensics analysis include:

• Detach without shutting down all possibly suspect devices from the network. This can involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing 2FA to secure your backups.
• Preserve forensically valid images of all exposed devices so your file recovery group can get started
• Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and additional critical logs as soon as possible
• Establish the variety of ransomware involved in the attack
• Survey each computer and data store on the network including cloud-hosted storage for signs of encryption
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Study log activity and user sessions to determine the time frame of the attack and to identify any potential lateral movement from the originally infected system
• Understand the attack vectors exploited to carry out the ransomware attack
• Look for new executables surrounding the first encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine email attachments
• Extract any URLs from messages and determine whether they are malicious
• Produce extensive attack documentation to satisfy your insurance and compliance requirements
• Suggest recommended improvements to close cybersecurity vulnerabilities and enforce processes that lower the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Services in Sandy Springs
To learn more about ways Progent can help your Sandy Springs organization with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.