Ransomware Response Services in Baton Rouge

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Baton Rouge
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can capture the system state after a ransomware attack and carry out a comprehensive forensics investigation without impeding the processes related to operational continuity and data recovery. Your Baton Rouge business can use Progent's forensics documentation to counter future ransomware attacks, assist in the restoration of lost data, and comply with insurance carrier and governmental requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation is aimed at discovering and documenting the ransomware attack's storyline across the targeted network from beginning to end. This audit trail of the way a ransomware attack travelled within the network helps your IT staff to evaluate the impact and highlights weaknesses in policies or processes that should be corrected to prevent later break-ins. Forensics is typically given a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically mandated by government and industry regulations. Because forensics can be time consuming, it is essential that other important recovery processes like business resumption are executed concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive team of information technology and data security professionals with the knowledge and experience required to carry out activities for containment, operational continuity, and data recovery without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is arduous and requires intimate interaction with the teams focused on file restoration and, if needed, payment talks with the ransomware Threat Actor. Ransomware forensics can involve the review of all logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to detect anomalies.

Activities associated with forensics include:

• Detach but avoid shutting down all possibly suspect devices from the network. This may require closing all RDP ports and Internet connected NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and configuring 2FA to guard your backups.
• Create forensically sound duplicates of all suspect devices so the file restoration group can get started
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and additional key logs as quickly as possible
• Identify the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Examine each machine and storage device on the system as well as cloud-hosted storage for signs of compromise
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Study log activity and sessions to establish the timeline of the ransomware assault and to spot any possible sideways migration from the first compromised system
• Identify the security gaps exploited to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Search for new executables associated with the original encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine email attachments
• Extract URLs from email messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Produce comprehensive attack documentation to meet your insurance and compliance requirements
• Suggest recommended improvements to shore up cybersecurity gaps and enforce workflows that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Expertise in Baton Rouge
To learn more information about how Progent can help your Baton Rouge business with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.