Ransomware Response Services in Arlington

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Arlington
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without interfering with the processes related to operational resumption and data restoration. Your Arlington business can use Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics report to combat subsequent ransomware assaults, assist in the restoration of lost data, and comply with insurance carrier and regulatory requirements.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at determining and describing the ransomware assault's progress across the network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware attack travelled through the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the damage and highlights weaknesses in rules or work habits that need to be corrected to avoid later break-ins. Forensics is commonly assigned a high priority by the insurance carrier and is typically mandated by state and industry regulations. Since forensics can take time, it is critical that other important recovery processes like operational continuity are performed concurrently. Progent has a large roster of information technology and security experts with the skills needed to perform the work of containment, business continuity, and data recovery without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics is complex and calls for close interaction with the groups focused on file cleanup and, if necessary, settlement negotiation with the ransomware Threat Actor. Ransomware forensics can require the review of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to check for anomalies.

Services involved with forensics investigation include:

• Detach without shutting off all possibly affected devices from the system. This can require closing all RDP ports and Internet facing NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing 2FA to secure backups.
• Create forensically valid digital images of all exposed devices so the data recovery group can proceed
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and other critical logs as soon as possible
• Identify the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Inspect each machine and data store on the network as well as cloud storage for signs of encryption
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Study log activity and sessions to establish the time frame of the ransomware assault and to spot any possible sideways movement from the first compromised machine
• Understand the security gaps exploited to carry out the ransomware attack
• Look for new executables surrounding the first encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine email attachments
• Separate URLs embedded in messages and determine if they are malware
• Produce extensive incident reporting to meet your insurance and compliance requirements
• Document recommendations to close security vulnerabilities and enforce workflows that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

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