Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Birmingham

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Birmingham
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without impeding activity related to operational resumption and data restoration. Your Birmingham organization can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics report to block future ransomware assaults, validate the recovery of lost data, and meet insurance and regulatory mandates.

Ransomware forensics investigation involves discovering and describing the ransomware attack's progress across the targeted network from beginning to end. This audit trail of the way a ransomware attack progressed through the network assists you to evaluate the damage and highlights vulnerabilities in rules or processes that should be rectified to avoid later break-ins. Forensics is usually assigned a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often mandated by government and industry regulations. Since forensics can be time consuming, it is critical that other important recovery processes like operational continuity are executed in parallel. Progent maintains a large roster of IT and data security experts with the skills required to carry out activities for containment, operational continuity, and data restoration without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is complicated and calls for intimate interaction with the groups responsible for data recovery and, if needed, payment negotiation with the ransomware hacker. forensics can require the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to check for variations.

Services involved with forensics include:

• Detach but avoid shutting down all possibly affected devices from the system. This can involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring 2FA to guard your backups.
• Capture forensically complete images of all exposed devices so the data restoration group can get started
• Save firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as soon as feasible
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Survey every computer and storage device on the system as well as cloud storage for signs of encryption
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Study log activity and sessions to establish the timeline of the assault and to spot any potential lateral migration from the first compromised system
• Understand the attack vectors exploited to carry out the ransomware assault
• Search for new executables surrounding the original encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze attachments
• Extract any URLs from email messages and determine if they are malicious
• Provide comprehensive incident documentation to meet your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
• Suggest recommended improvements to close security gaps and improve processes that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

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