Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting Services in Buffalo
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can save the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without impeding the processes related to operational resumption and data restoration. Your Buffalo business can use Progent's post-attack forensics documentation to combat future ransomware assaults, assist in the recovery of encrypted data, and comply with insurance and governmental reporting requirements.
Ransomware forensics investigation involves tracking and describing the ransomware attack's progress throughout the targeted network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware attack travelled within the network assists you to assess the damage and uncovers weaknesses in rules or processes that should be corrected to avoid future breaches. Forensics is commonly assigned a high priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically mandated by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is critical that other key recovery processes such as business resumption are performed concurrently. Progent maintains a large roster of IT and security professionals with the knowledge and experience needed to carry out the work of containment, business resumption, and data recovery without disrupting forensics.
Ransomware forensics is complicated and requires intimate cooperation with the teams assigned to file recovery and, if necessary, settlement discussions with the ransomware attacker. forensics can require the examination of all logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to look for variations.
Services involved with forensics include:
- Detach without shutting off all potentially impacted devices from the system. This may require closing all RDP ports and Internet connected NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and implementing 2FA to protect backups.
- Create forensically valid digital images of all suspect devices so the data restoration team can proceed
- Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional key logs as soon as possible
- Identify the variety of ransomware involved in the attack
- Examine each machine and data store on the network including cloud-hosted storage for signs of compromise
- Catalog all compromised devices
- Determine the kind of ransomware used in the assault
- Review log activity and sessions to determine the time frame of the assault and to spot any possible lateral movement from the first infected system
- Identify the security gaps exploited to carry out the ransomware assault
- Look for new executables surrounding the first encrypted files or network compromise
- Parse Outlook web archives
- Analyze email attachments
- Extract any URLs embedded in messages and determine whether they are malicious
- Produce comprehensive incident reporting to meet your insurance carrier and compliance mandates
- List recommendations to shore up cybersecurity gaps and improve processes that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware breach
Progent's Qualifications
Progent has provided remote and on-premises IT services across the United States for over 20 years and has earned Microsoft's Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's roster of subject matter experts includes professionals who have been awarded high-level certifications in foundation technologies such as Cisco networking, VMware, and major Linux distros. Progent's cybersecurity experts have earned prestigious certifications such as CISM, CISSP-ISSAP, and CRISC. (Refer to Progent's certifications). Progent also has guidance in financial and Enterprise Resource Planning software. This scope of skills allows Progent to identify and integrate the surviving pieces of your information system following a ransomware assault and reconstruct them rapidly into a viable system. Progent has worked with leading insurance carriers like Chubb to assist businesses recover from ransomware assaults.
Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Services in Buffalo
To learn more about ways Progent can assist your Buffalo organization with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.