Ransomware Response Consultants in Baton Rouge

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting in Baton Rouge
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can capture the system state after a ransomware assault and carry out a detailed forensics investigation without slowing down the processes required for business resumption and data recovery. Your Baton Rouge organization can use Progent's post-attack forensics documentation to combat future ransomware assaults, validate the recovery of lost data, and comply with insurance and regulatory mandates.

Ransomware forensics investigation involves tracking and describing the ransomware assault's storyline across the network from beginning to end. This audit trail of how a ransomware assault travelled within the network helps you to evaluate the damage and highlights gaps in rules or work habits that need to be corrected to avoid later break-ins. Forensics is typically given a top priority by the insurance provider and is typically required by government and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can take time, it is essential that other key activities like business resumption are pursued concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive team of IT and security professionals with the knowledge and experience required to carry out the work of containment, business continuity, and data recovery without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics investigation is time consuming and requires intimate interaction with the teams assigned to data recovery and, if needed, settlement talks with the ransomware adversary. forensics can involve the review of all logs, registry, GPO, AD, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to detect anomalies.

Services involved with forensics include:

• Disconnect but avoid shutting off all possibly impacted devices from the system. This can require closing all RDP ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up 2FA to protect backups.
• Preserve forensically complete digital images of all exposed devices so the file recovery group can proceed
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and other key logs as quickly as possible
• Establish the strain of ransomware used in the assault
• Inspect each machine and data store on the system as well as cloud-hosted storage for signs of encryption
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Study log activity and user sessions in order to determine the time frame of the attack and to identify any possible sideways migration from the originally infected system
• Understand the attack vectors used to carry out the ransomware attack
• Search for the creation of executables associated with the first encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze attachments
• Separate any URLs embedded in messages and check to see whether they are malware
• Provide extensive attack reporting to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance mandates
• Document recommendations to shore up security vulnerabilities and enforce processes that reduce the risk of a future ransomware exploit

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