Ransomware Response Consultants in Alpharetta

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting in Alpharetta
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without slowing down the processes related to operational resumption and data restoration. Your Alpharetta organization can use Progent's forensics documentation to combat future ransomware assaults, validate the restoration of encrypted data, and comply with insurance carrier and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation is aimed at determining and documenting the ransomware attack's progress across the targeted network from start to finish. This audit trail of how a ransomware attack progressed within the network assists you to evaluate the impact and uncovers gaps in security policies or work habits that need to be corrected to prevent future breaches. Forensic analysis is commonly assigned a high priority by the insurance provider and is typically required by state and industry regulations. Because forensics can be time consuming, it is essential that other key activities like business resumption are pursued in parallel. Progent maintains a large roster of information technology and data security professionals with the skills needed to perform activities for containment, business resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics investigation is complicated and calls for close interaction with the teams focused on data cleanup and, if needed, payment discussions with the ransomware attacker. forensics typically involve the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to look for variations.

Services associated with forensics analysis include:

• Disconnect without shutting down all possibly suspect devices from the network. This can require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing 2FA to secure your backups.
• Create forensically valid duplicates of all exposed devices so your data restoration team can get started
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as soon as possible
• Establish the version of ransomware used in the attack
• Survey each computer and data store on the network including cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Establish the type of ransomware involved in the attack
• Review logs and sessions to determine the time frame of the attack and to spot any potential sideways migration from the originally infected system
• Understand the security gaps exploited to carry out the ransomware attack
• Look for the creation of executables surrounding the original encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine email attachments
• Extract any URLs from email messages and determine if they are malicious
• Provide comprehensive incident reporting to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance regulations
• Document recommended improvements to shore up cybersecurity gaps and enforce workflows that lower the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

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