Ransomware Response Services in Addison

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting in Addison
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the evidence of a ransomware attack and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without slowing down the processes related to operational continuity and data restoration. Your Addison business can utilize Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics report to combat future ransomware attacks, validate the cleanup of encrypted data, and comply with insurance and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at discovering and documenting the ransomware assault's storyline across the network from start to finish. This history of the way a ransomware assault progressed within the network helps your IT staff to assess the impact and highlights gaps in policies or processes that should be rectified to prevent later breaches. Forensic analysis is typically assigned a high priority by the insurance provider and is often required by government and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can take time, it is essential that other important activities like business continuity are performed in parallel. Progent maintains an extensive roster of IT and security experts with the knowledge and experience required to carry out the work of containment, business resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics analysis is time consuming and requires close cooperation with the teams assigned to data restoration and, if needed, payment negotiation with the ransomware Threat Actor (TA). Ransomware forensics can require the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to look for variations.

Services involved with forensics investigation include:

• Disconnect without shutting off all possibly impacted devices from the network. This can involve closing all RDP ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and implementing 2FA to protect your backups.
• Create forensically complete images of all exposed devices so your data recovery group can get started
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as quickly as feasible
• Identify the type of ransomware involved in the assault
• Examine each machine and storage device on the system as well as cloud storage for signs of encryption
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Determine the type of ransomware involved in the attack
• Study log activity and user sessions in order to determine the time frame of the attack and to identify any potential lateral movement from the originally compromised system
• Identify the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Look for new executables surrounding the first encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine attachments
• Separate any URLs from email messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Produce comprehensive attack documentation to meet your insurance carrier and compliance regulations
• Document recommended improvements to shore up security vulnerabilities and enforce processes that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Services in Addison
To find out more about how Progent can help your Addison organization with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.