Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Seattle

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting in Seattle
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can capture the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without impeding the processes related to operational resumption and data recovery. Your Seattle business can utilize Progent's ransomware forensics report to combat future ransomware attacks, validate the cleanup of encrypted data, and comply with insurance carrier and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation involves determining and documenting the ransomware attack's storyline throughout the network from start to finish. This audit trail of the way a ransomware assault travelled within the network assists you to assess the damage and brings to light weaknesses in security policies or work habits that should be rectified to prevent later break-ins. Forensics is typically given a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often mandated by government and industry regulations. Since forensics can take time, it is critical that other important recovery processes like operational resumption are performed in parallel. Progent maintains a large team of information technology and data security professionals with the knowledge and experience required to carry out activities for containment, operational resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics is time consuming and calls for intimate cooperation with the teams responsible for data restoration and, if necessary, settlement talks with the ransomware hacker. Ransomware forensics can involve the examination of all logs, registry, GPO, AD, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to detect anomalies.

Activities involved with forensics investigation include:

• Disconnect but avoid shutting down all potentially suspect devices from the system. This may require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and configuring 2FA to secure backups.
• Preserve forensically complete duplicates of all suspect devices so your data restoration team can proceed
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and other key logs as soon as feasible
• Establish the version of ransomware used in the assault
• Inspect each machine and storage device on the system as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of encryption
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Study logs and user sessions to establish the time frame of the attack and to spot any possible lateral movement from the originally infected machine
• Identify the security gaps used to carry out the ransomware attack
• Search for new executables associated with the first encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze attachments
• Separate URLs embedded in email messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Produce extensive attack reporting to satisfy your insurance and compliance regulations
• Suggest recommendations to shore up security gaps and enforce processes that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Expertise in Seattle
To find out more information about how Progent can assist your Seattle business with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.