Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Bristol

Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting Services in Bristol
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the evidence of a ransomware attack and carry out a detailed forensics analysis without disrupting the processes related to operational resumption and data restoration. Your Bristol organization can use Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics documentation to combat future ransomware attacks, validate the recovery of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and governmental mandates.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at determining and documenting the ransomware attack's progress across the network from beginning to end. This history of the way a ransomware attack travelled through the network helps your IT staff to assess the impact and uncovers gaps in security policies or processes that should be rectified to prevent future break-ins. Forensic analysis is commonly given a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often required by state and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is essential that other key recovery processes such as operational continuity are pursued concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive team of IT and cybersecurity professionals with the knowledge and experience needed to perform the work of containment, business resumption, and data restoration without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics analysis is arduous and requires intimate interaction with the groups assigned to file cleanup and, if necessary, settlement talks with the ransomware Threat Actor (TA). Ransomware forensics can require the examination of all logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to look for variations.

Services involved with forensics analysis include:

• Isolate without shutting off all possibly suspect devices from the network. This may require closing all RDP ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and implementing two-factor authentication to secure your backups.
• Preserve forensically sound digital images of all suspect devices so your data restoration team can proceed
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and other key logs as soon as possible
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Survey every computer and data store on the system as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Study logs and user sessions to determine the timeline of the ransomware attack and to spot any potential sideways movement from the originally infected machine
• Understand the security gaps used to carry out the ransomware attack
• Search for the creation of executables associated with the first encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine email attachments
• Separate URLs from messages and determine if they are malware
• Produce detailed incident reporting to meet your insurance carrier and compliance regulations
• List recommended improvements to shore up cybersecurity vulnerabilities and enforce workflows that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Expertise in Bristol
To find out more about ways Progent can help your Bristol organization with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.