Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Vancouver

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Vancouver
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without slowing down activity related to business continuity and data restoration. Your Vancouver business can utilize Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics documentation to counter subsequent ransomware attacks, validate the recovery of lost data, and comply with insurance carrier and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation involves discovering and documenting the ransomware attack's progress throughout the targeted network from beginning to end. This audit trail of how a ransomware assault progressed through the network helps your IT staff to assess the damage and highlights shortcomings in rules or processes that need to be rectified to avoid later breaches. Forensics is typically assigned a top priority by the insurance carrier and is often mandated by government and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can take time, it is essential that other important recovery processes such as operational resumption are executed in parallel. Progent has a large roster of IT and data security professionals with the skills required to carry out the work of containment, business resumption, and data restoration without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is complex and calls for intimate cooperation with the teams assigned to data cleanup and, if needed, payment negotiation with the ransomware hacker. Ransomware forensics typically involve the review of logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory, DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to look for anomalies.

Activities involved with forensics investigation include:

• Isolate without shutting off all potentially affected devices from the network. This can involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing two-factor authentication to secure backups.
• Capture forensically sound digital images of all suspect devices so your data restoration group can proceed
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and other key logs as soon as feasible
• Determine the strain of ransomware involved in the attack
• Survey every computer and data store on the system including cloud-hosted storage for indications of encryption
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Establish the type of ransomware used in the assault
• Study logs and sessions to establish the time frame of the attack and to identify any possible lateral movement from the first compromised machine
• Identify the security gaps exploited to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Search for new executables associated with the original encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine attachments
• Extract URLs from messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Provide comprehensive attack reporting to satisfy your insurance and compliance regulations
• Document recommended improvements to close security gaps and improve processes that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Services in Vancouver
To find out more information about ways Progent can help your Vancouver organization with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.