Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in Bellevue
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can save the evidence of a ransomware assault and carry out a comprehensive forensics investigation without interfering with the processes required for business resumption and data restoration. Your Bellevue organization can use Progent's post-attack forensics report to combat subsequent ransomware attacks, validate the recovery of lost data, and comply with insurance carrier and governmental mandates.
Ransomware forensics is aimed at determining and describing the ransomware attack's storyline across the network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware attack travelled within the network helps your IT staff to evaluate the impact and brings to light weaknesses in rules or work habits that need to be rectified to avoid future breaches. Forensics is typically 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 essential that other key recovery processes such as business resumption are pursued in parallel. Progent maintains an extensive team of IT and security professionals with the skills required to perform activities for containment, operational resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensics.
Ransomware forensics is time consuming and calls for close interaction with the teams focused on data restoration and, if necessary, payment negotiation with the ransomware Threat Actor. Ransomware forensics can require the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to look for changes.
Activities involved with forensics investigation include:
- Disconnect but avoid shutting off all potentially affected devices from the network. This can involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and configuring 2FA to protect backups.
- Capture forensically valid images of all exposed devices so your file restoration group can get started
- Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and other key logs as quickly as feasible
- Identify the type of ransomware used in the attack
- Examine each machine and storage device on the system as well as cloud storage for indications of compromise
- Inventory all compromised devices
- Determine the type of ransomware involved in the attack
- Review logs and user sessions in order to determine the timeline of the ransomware assault and to identify any potential sideways movement from the originally compromised system
- Understand the security gaps used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
- Look for new executables associated with the original encrypted files or network compromise
- Parse Outlook PST files
- Examine email attachments
- Extract URLs embedded in email messages and determine whether they are malicious
- Provide detailed attack documentation to meet your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
- List recommended improvements to close cybersecurity vulnerabilities and enforce processes that reduce the risk of a future ransomware exploit
Progent's Qualifications
Progent has delivered online and onsite network services throughout the United States for over 20 years and has earned Microsoft's Gold Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's roster of subject matter experts includes consultants who have earned high-level certifications in foundation technology platforms including Cisco networking, VMware virtualization, and major distributions of Linux. Progent's data security experts have earned internationally recognized certifications such as CISA, CISSP, and CRISC. (Refer to certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also has top-tier support in financial and ERP applications. This scope of expertise gives Progent the ability to identify and integrate the undamaged pieces of your information system following a ransomware assault and reconstruct them quickly into an operational network. Progent has collaborated with top cyber insurance providers including Chubb to assist organizations clean up after ransomware assaults.
Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Services in Bellevue
To find out more about ways Progent can help your Bellevue organization with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.