Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Carlsbad

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting Services in Carlsbad
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a detailed forensics analysis without interfering with the processes required for business resumption and data restoration. Your Carlsbad organization can utilize Progent's forensics documentation to block future ransomware attacks, assist in the cleanup of lost data, and meet insurance carrier and governmental requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at discovering and documenting the ransomware assault's progress throughout the network from start to finish. This history of how a ransomware assault travelled through the network helps your IT staff to evaluate the impact and highlights shortcomings in security policies or work habits that should be rectified to avoid later breaches. Forensic analysis is usually assigned a high priority by the insurance provider and is typically required by government and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is critical that other key activities such as operational resumption are pursued in parallel. Progent maintains a large team of IT and cybersecurity experts with the skills required to perform the work of containment, operational continuity, and data restoration without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics is complicated and requires intimate interaction with the groups assigned to data recovery and, if necessary, payment talks with the ransomware Threat Actor. forensics can require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to detect anomalies.

Services associated with forensics include:

• Isolate without shutting off all potentially suspect devices from the system. This can require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up two-factor authentication to secure backups.
• Copy forensically valid digital images of all exposed devices so your file recovery team can get started
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as soon as possible
• Identify the variety of ransomware involved in the assault
• Survey each computer and data store on the network including cloud-hosted storage for indications of encryption
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Establish the type of ransomware involved in the assault
• Study logs and sessions to determine the time frame of the attack and to spot any possible sideways migration from the originally infected machine
• Understand the attack vectors exploited to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Search for the creation of executables associated with the first encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine email attachments
• Extract URLs from email messages and determine whether they are malware
• Produce comprehensive incident documentation to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance regulations
• List recommendations to shore up security vulnerabilities and enforce workflows that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Expertise in Carlsbad
To find out more about how Progent can help your Carlsbad organization with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.