Ransomware Response Services in Alpharetta

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in Alpharetta
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the evidence of a ransomware attack and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without slowing down the processes related to business continuity and data restoration. Your Alpharetta business can utilize Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics report to combat subsequent ransomware attacks, assist in the restoration of lost data, and meet insurance carrier and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation involves determining and describing the ransomware assault's progress throughout the network from start to finish. This audit trail of the way a ransomware assault progressed within the network helps you to evaluate the damage and uncovers shortcomings in policies or work habits that need to be corrected to avoid later breaches. Forensic analysis is commonly given a top priority by the insurance provider and is often mandated by government and industry regulations. Because forensics can take time, it is essential that other important activities like business resumption are pursued concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive team of information technology and cybersecurity professionals with the knowledge and experience needed to perform the work of containment, business resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics is complicated and calls for close interaction with the teams assigned to data recovery and, if needed, settlement talks with the ransomware Threat Actor (TA). forensics can involve the examination of all logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory, DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to detect changes.

Services associated with forensics include:

• Disconnect but avoid shutting down all potentially affected devices from the system. This can involve closing all RDP ports and Internet connected NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and implementing 2FA to guard your backups.
• Capture forensically sound digital images of all suspect devices so the data restoration team can proceed
• Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and additional critical logs as quickly as feasible
• Establish the type of ransomware used in the assault
• Examine every machine and storage device on the system including cloud-hosted storage for indications of encryption
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Study log activity and user sessions in order to establish the timeline of the ransomware assault and to spot any possible lateral migration from the first infected machine
• Understand the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Search for new executables surrounding the first encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine attachments
• Extract URLs from messages and check to see if they are malicious
• Provide extensive incident documentation to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
• Suggest recommendations to shore up cybersecurity vulnerabilities and enforce processes that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Expertise in Alpharetta
To find out more about ways Progent can help your Alpharetta organization with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.