Ransomware Response Services in Akron

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting Services in Akron
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the system state after a ransomware attack and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without slowing down activity related to business resumption and data recovery. Your Akron business can utilize Progent's ransomware forensics report to block future ransomware attacks, validate the recovery of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at discovering and documenting the ransomware attack's storyline across the targeted network from start to finish. This history of the way a ransomware assault travelled through the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the damage and uncovers gaps in policies or work habits that need to be rectified to avoid future break-ins. Forensic analysis is commonly assigned a high priority by the cyber insurance provider and is typically mandated by state and industry regulations. Because forensics can take time, it is critical that other important activities like operational resumption are performed concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive roster of information technology and data security experts with the skills required to perform the work of containment, operational resumption, and data recovery without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is arduous and requires close cooperation with the teams focused on data recovery and, if needed, settlement discussions with the ransomware Threat Actor (TA). Ransomware forensics can require the examination of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object, AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to look for changes.

Activities involved with forensics analysis include:

• Isolate without shutting off all potentially affected devices from the system. This can involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing two-factor authentication to guard backups.
• Capture forensically sound duplicates of all suspect devices so your data restoration group can proceed
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional key logs as soon as possible
• Determine the variety of ransomware used in the attack
• Survey each machine and storage device on the network including cloud-hosted storage for signs of compromise
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Study logs and user sessions to determine the time frame of the attack and to spot any potential lateral migration from the originally compromised machine
• Identify the security gaps exploited to carry out the ransomware assault
• Look for new executables associated with the first encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine email attachments
• Separate URLs from email messages and check to see if they are malware
• Provide detailed attack documentation to satisfy your insurance and compliance regulations
• Suggest recommendations to shore up cybersecurity gaps and improve workflows that lower the risk of a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Services in Akron
To learn more information about ways Progent can assist your Akron organization with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.