Ransomware Response Services in Buffalo

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Buffalo
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware attack and carry out a detailed forensics investigation without interfering with the processes required for operational resumption and data recovery. Your Buffalo business can utilize Progent's ransomware forensics report to counter future ransomware attacks, validate the recovery of encrypted data, and comply with insurance carrier and governmental mandates.

Ransomware forensics analysis involves determining and describing the ransomware attack's progress throughout the targeted network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware assault travelled within the network assists your IT staff to assess the impact and brings to light shortcomings in rules or processes that need to be corrected to avoid future breaches. Forensics is typically assigned a high priority by the insurance carrier and is often required by government and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is critical that other important recovery processes such as operational continuity are pursued in parallel. Progent maintains an extensive team of IT and security professionals with the skills required to carry out activities for containment, business resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics is complex and requires close cooperation with the teams responsible for file restoration and, if necessary, payment negotiation with the ransomware hacker. forensics can involve the examination of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to look for variations.

Services involved with forensics include:

• Disconnect but avoid shutting down all potentially suspect devices from the system. This can involve closing all RDP ports and Internet connected NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up 2FA to secure backups.
• Create forensically complete duplicates of all suspect devices so your file restoration group can proceed
• Save firewall, VPN, and additional key logs as quickly as possible
• Determine the version of ransomware involved in the assault
• Examine each computer and data store on the network including cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Study log activity and user sessions to establish the timeline of the attack and to spot any potential lateral movement from the originally infected machine
• Understand the security gaps used to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Look for new executables surrounding the first encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine email attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in messages and check to see whether they are malware
• Provide comprehensive attack documentation to meet your insurance and compliance mandates
• Suggest recommendations to close security gaps and enforce workflows that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

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