Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Virginia Beach

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting Services in Virginia Beach
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a detailed forensics investigation without slowing down activity related to operational resumption and data restoration. Your Virginia Beach organization can use Progent's forensics documentation to combat future ransomware assaults, validate the cleanup of lost data, and meet insurance and governmental mandates.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at determining and documenting the ransomware assault's storyline across the targeted network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware assault travelled through the network helps your IT staff to assess the damage and brings to light vulnerabilities in security policies or work habits that need to be rectified to prevent future breaches. Forensic analysis is commonly assigned a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically mandated by government and industry regulations. Since forensics can take time, it is essential that other key activities such as business resumption are pursued concurrently. Progent has a large roster of information technology and security experts with the knowledge and experience needed to carry out activities for containment, operational resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics is complex and requires intimate interaction with the groups focused on data restoration and, if needed, payment talks with the ransomware attacker. forensics typically require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), AD, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to detect anomalies.

Activities involved with forensics include:

• Isolate without shutting off all potentially affected devices from the system. This may require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and configuring two-factor authentication to secure backups.
• Copy forensically sound digital images of all exposed devices so your file recovery group can proceed
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional key logs as quickly as feasible
• Identify the variety of ransomware involved in the assault
• Examine each machine and data store on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Establish the type of ransomware involved in the assault
• Study log activity and user sessions to determine the timeline of the attack and to identify any potential lateral movement from the first compromised machine
• Identify the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Search for the creation of executables associated with the original encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze email attachments
• Separate URLs from email messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Produce detailed incident reporting to satisfy your insurance and compliance mandates
• Document recommended improvements to close cybersecurity gaps and enforce processes that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Services in Virginia Beach
To find out more information about ways Progent can assist your Virginia Beach business with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.