Ransomware Response Consultants in Alpharetta

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting Services in Alpharetta
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the evidence of a ransomware assault and carry out a comprehensive forensics investigation without interfering with the processes required for business resumption and data recovery. Your Alpharetta organization can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics report to combat subsequent ransomware attacks, assist in the restoration of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics involves discovering and describing the ransomware assault's storyline across the targeted network from start to finish. This history of the way a ransomware attack travelled within the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the impact and highlights weaknesses in policies or processes that need to be corrected to avoid future breaches. Forensics is usually assigned a high priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often required by state and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can take time, it is essential that other key activities such as operational continuity are performed in parallel. Progent maintains an extensive roster of IT and cybersecurity professionals with the skills required to carry out activities for containment, operational continuity, and data recovery without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is complicated and calls for intimate cooperation with the groups responsible for file restoration and, if necessary, settlement negotiation with the ransomware attacker. forensics typically require the examination of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to detect anomalies.

Activities associated with forensics include:

• Isolate but avoid shutting down all potentially impacted devices from the network. This may require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing 2FA to secure backups.
• Capture forensically valid images of all exposed devices so the file recovery group can get started
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional key logs as quickly as possible
• Establish the type of ransomware used in the assault
• Inspect each computer and storage device on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Review logs and sessions in order to determine the time frame of the assault and to spot any potential lateral movement from the originally infected machine
• Identify the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Look for the creation of executables associated with the first encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze email attachments
• Separate URLs from messages and determine whether they are malware
• Provide extensive attack reporting to meet your insurance and compliance regulations
• Document recommended improvements to close security gaps and improve processes that reduce the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Expertise in Alpharetta
To learn more about ways Progent can assist your Alpharetta organization with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.