Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Allentown

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting Services in Allentown
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without impeding activity required for operational resumption and data recovery. Your Allentown business can use Progent's forensics documentation to block subsequent ransomware attacks, assist in the restoration of encrypted data, and comply with insurance and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at tracking and describing the ransomware attack's progress across the targeted network from beginning to end. This audit trail of how a ransomware attack travelled within the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the impact and uncovers gaps in security policies or work habits that need to be rectified to prevent later breaches. Forensics is usually assigned a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often required by government and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can take time, it is essential that other important activities like operational resumption are performed in parallel. Progent has a large team of IT and cybersecurity professionals with the knowledge and experience required to perform the work of containment, business continuity, and data recovery without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics analysis is time consuming and requires intimate cooperation with the groups assigned to file restoration and, if necessary, payment talks with the ransomware Threat Actor (TA). Ransomware forensics can require the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to look for changes.

Activities involved with forensics analysis include:

• Disconnect without shutting down all possibly affected devices from the network. This may require closing all RDP ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and configuring 2FA to guard backups.
• Copy forensically valid digital images of all suspect devices so the data recovery group can get started
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and other critical logs as soon as feasible
• Identify the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Examine each computer and storage device on the network including cloud-hosted storage for signs of compromise
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Review logs and sessions to determine the time frame of the attack and to identify any potential lateral movement from the originally compromised machine
• Identify the security gaps exploited to carry out the ransomware attack
• Search for new executables surrounding the first encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine email attachments
• Separate any URLs from email messages and check to see whether they are malware
• Produce detailed incident documentation to meet your insurance and compliance requirements
• Suggest recommended improvements to shore up cybersecurity gaps and enforce workflows that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

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