Ransomware Response Consultants in Calgary

Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Calgary
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the evidence of a ransomware assault and carry out a comprehensive forensics analysis without interfering with activity required for operational continuity and data recovery. Your Calgary business can utilize Progent's ransomware forensics documentation to combat future ransomware assaults, validate the restoration of lost data, and meet insurance carrier and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation involves discovering and documenting the ransomware attack's storyline across the network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware assault progressed within the network assists your IT staff to assess the impact and brings to light gaps in rules or work habits that need to be rectified to prevent later break-ins. Forensics is typically assigned a top priority by the insurance carrier and is typically required by government and industry regulations. Because forensics can be time consuming, it is essential that other key activities like business continuity are executed in parallel. Progent maintains an extensive roster of information technology and security professionals with the knowledge and experience required to carry out the work of containment, operational resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is complicated and calls for intimate interaction with the teams focused on data cleanup and, if needed, payment talks with the ransomware Threat Actor (TA). forensics can involve the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to check for anomalies.

Services associated with forensics analysis include:

• Detach but avoid shutting down all potentially impacted devices from the network. This may require closing all RDP ports and Internet facing NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and implementing two-factor authentication to protect backups.
• Preserve forensically valid duplicates of all exposed devices so your data recovery group can proceed
• Save firewall, VPN, and other critical logs as soon as feasible
• Identify the strain of ransomware involved in the assault
• Inspect every computer and data store on the system including cloud storage for signs of encryption
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Review log activity and user sessions in order to determine the timeline of the ransomware attack and to identify any possible sideways migration from the first infected machine
• Understand the attack vectors used to carry out the ransomware assault
• Search for the creation of executables surrounding the original encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine email attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in messages and determine whether they are malware
• Produce detailed incident documentation to meet your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
• Suggest recommendations to close security gaps and enforce workflows that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

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