Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Arlington

Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Arlington
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without impeding activity related to business resumption and data restoration. Your Arlington business can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics report to counter subsequent ransomware attacks, validate the recovery of encrypted data, and meet insurance and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation involves discovering and describing the ransomware attack's storyline across the targeted network from start to finish. This history of how a ransomware attack progressed through the network assists you to evaluate the damage and highlights vulnerabilities in policies or work habits that should be rectified to prevent later breaches. Forensic analysis is usually given a top priority by the cyber insurance provider and is often required by state and industry regulations. Since forensics can be time consuming, it is critical that other key recovery processes such as business resumption are executed in parallel. Progent has an extensive team of IT and data security professionals with the skills required to carry out the work of containment, business continuity, and data restoration without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics is complicated and calls for close cooperation with the teams assigned to file restoration and, if necessary, settlement negotiation with the ransomware adversary. Ransomware forensics typically involve the examination of all logs, registry, GPO, AD, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to detect anomalies.

Services involved with forensics include:

• Detach without shutting off all potentially impacted devices from the network. This can involve closing all RDP ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring 2FA to guard backups.
• Create forensically sound duplicates of all suspect devices so your data restoration group can get started
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional key logs as quickly as possible
• Identify the variety of ransomware involved in the attack
• Examine each computer and storage device on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for signs of encryption
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Study log activity and sessions in order to establish the time frame of the assault and to spot any potential sideways migration from the first infected system
• Identify the security gaps exploited to carry out the ransomware attack
• Search for the creation of executables associated with the original encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze email attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in messages and check to see whether they are malware
• Produce detailed incident documentation to meet your insurance and compliance requirements
• Suggest recommendations to shore up cybersecurity vulnerabilities and improve workflows that lower the risk of a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Services in Arlington
To find out more about how Progent can assist your Arlington business with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.