Ransomware Response Consultants in Anaheim

Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Anaheim
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the system state after a ransomware attack and carry out a detailed forensics analysis without slowing down the processes related to operational resumption and data restoration. Your Anaheim organization can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics report to block future ransomware assaults, validate the restoration of encrypted data, and meet insurance and governmental mandates.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at discovering and documenting the ransomware assault's storyline across the targeted network from start to finish. This history of how a ransomware assault progressed within the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the damage and highlights shortcomings in security policies or processes that should be corrected to prevent later breaches. Forensic analysis is typically assigned a high priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically required by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can take time, it is essential that other key activities like business continuity are performed concurrently. Progent maintains a large team of IT and data security experts with the knowledge and experience needed to perform the work of containment, operational continuity, and data restoration without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is arduous and requires intimate interaction with the teams responsible for data restoration and, if necessary, settlement negotiation with the ransomware adversary. forensics typically require the examination of logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to look for anomalies.

Activities associated with forensics analysis include:

• Isolate without shutting off all possibly affected devices from the network. This may involve closing all RDP ports and Internet facing NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up two-factor authentication to guard your backups.
• Preserve forensically valid images of all suspect devices so your file restoration team can proceed
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and other key logs as quickly as possible
• Determine the variety of ransomware involved in the assault
• Examine every computer and storage device on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of encryption
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Study logs and user sessions in order to establish the time frame of the attack and to spot any potential sideways movement from the first infected machine
• Understand the security gaps used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Look for the creation of executables associated with the first encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine email attachments
• Extract any URLs embedded in email messages and determine whether they are malicious
• Produce extensive incident reporting to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance regulations
• Suggest recommendations to shore up cybersecurity vulnerabilities and enforce workflows that lower the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Services in Anaheim
To learn more about how Progent can help your Anaheim business with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.