Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Birmingham

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in Birmingham
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the evidence of a ransomware attack and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without disrupting activity related to business resumption and data recovery. Your Birmingham organization can utilize Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics report to block subsequent ransomware attacks, assist in the restoration of encrypted data, and meet insurance and governmental mandates.

Ransomware forensics analysis involves determining and describing the ransomware assault's progress throughout the network from start to finish. This audit trail of how a ransomware assault progressed within the network helps your IT staff to assess the damage and uncovers shortcomings in rules or processes that need to be rectified to prevent future breaches. Forensics is usually 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 business continuity are pursued in parallel. Progent has an extensive roster of information technology and data security experts with the knowledge and experience needed to perform the work of containment, business continuity, and data restoration without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics investigation is arduous and calls for close interaction with the teams responsible for data restoration and, if necessary, payment discussions with the ransomware adversary. forensics typically involve the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to check for changes.

Activities involved with forensics include:

• Isolate without shutting down all possibly suspect devices from the system. This may involve closing all RDP ports and Internet connected NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing two-factor authentication to secure backups.
• Preserve forensically sound images of all exposed devices so your data recovery group can get started
• Save firewall, VPN, and other key logs as soon as possible
• Establish the strain of ransomware used in the attack
• Inspect each computer and data store on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Study log activity and user sessions in order to determine the timeline of the ransomware assault and to spot any potential lateral movement from the first infected system
• Understand the attack vectors exploited to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Search for new executables surrounding the original encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine email attachments
• Separate any URLs embedded in email messages and determine if they are malicious
• Produce detailed attack reporting to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
• Suggest recommended improvements to close security gaps and enforce workflows that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Services in Birmingham
To learn more about ways Progent can help your Birmingham organization with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.