Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Birmingham

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting in Birmingham
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the evidence of a ransomware assault and carry out a comprehensive forensics investigation without impeding the processes related to business resumption and data recovery. Your Birmingham organization can use Progent's post-attack forensics documentation to counter subsequent ransomware assaults, validate the cleanup of lost data, and comply with insurance carrier and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation is aimed at discovering and describing the ransomware assault's storyline across the network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware attack travelled through the network helps your IT staff to evaluate the impact and uncovers gaps in policies or processes that should be corrected to prevent later break-ins. Forensic analysis is commonly assigned a high priority by the cyber insurance provider and is typically mandated by government and industry regulations. Because forensics can take time, it is critical that other important activities such as business continuity are pursued concurrently. Progent has a large roster of IT and security professionals with the skills needed to carry out activities for containment, business resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is complicated and calls for intimate interaction with the teams responsible for file cleanup and, if needed, settlement talks with the ransomware Threat Actor (TA). Ransomware forensics typically require the review of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), AD, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to detect variations.

Services associated with forensics include:

• Isolate without shutting down all potentially impacted devices from the network. This can require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up two-factor authentication to protect your backups.
• Create forensically sound images of all suspect devices so the file restoration team can proceed
• Save firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as quickly as feasible
• Identify the type of ransomware used in the attack
• Examine every machine and data store on the system as well as cloud storage for signs of compromise
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Study log activity and sessions in order to determine the timeline of the ransomware assault and to identify any possible sideways movement from the first infected machine
• Identify the attack vectors used to carry out the ransomware attack
• Look for the creation of executables associated with the first encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine email attachments
• Extract any URLs embedded in email messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Produce detailed attack documentation to meet your insurance and compliance requirements
• List recommended improvements to close security gaps and improve processes that lower the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Expertise in Birmingham
To learn more information about ways Progent can assist your Birmingham organization with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.