Ransomware Response Consultants in Cambridge

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting Services in Cambridge
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the evidence of a ransomware attack and carry out a detailed forensics investigation without impeding activity required for operational continuity and data restoration. Your Cambridge business can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics documentation to combat future ransomware assaults, assist in the restoration of lost data, and meet insurance and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis involves determining and describing the ransomware assault's storyline throughout the network from start to finish. This audit trail of the way a ransomware assault progressed through the network assists your IT staff to assess the impact and highlights gaps in rules or processes that need to be rectified to prevent later breaches. Forensic analysis is typically given a high priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often mandated by state and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can take time, it is essential that other important activities such as operational resumption are pursued concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive roster of IT and cybersecurity experts with the knowledge and experience required to carry out activities for containment, business resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics analysis is complex and requires intimate cooperation with the teams assigned to file restoration and, if necessary, settlement talks with the ransomware Threat Actor. Ransomware forensics can require the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), AD, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to look for changes.

Services associated with forensics investigation include:

• Disconnect but avoid shutting off all possibly affected devices from the network. This may involve closing all RDP ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and configuring 2FA to guard backups.
• Preserve forensically sound images of all suspect devices so your data recovery group can proceed
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as quickly as feasible
• Determine the variety of ransomware involved in the assault
• Survey every machine and storage device on the system as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Review logs and user sessions in order to establish the timeline of the ransomware attack and to identify any potential sideways movement from the first infected system
• Understand the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Search for new executables surrounding the first encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze attachments
• Separate URLs embedded in email messages and check to see whether they are malware
• Provide detailed incident documentation to meet your insurance and compliance regulations
• Document recommended improvements to shore up cybersecurity gaps and enforce processes that lower the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

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