Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in Carlsbad
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can capture the system state after a ransomware attack and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without impeding activity related to operational resumption and data restoration. Your Carlsbad business can use Progent's forensics report to combat subsequent ransomware attacks, assist in the cleanup of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory requirements.
Ransomware forensics involves tracking and describing the ransomware attack's progress throughout the targeted network from beginning to end. This audit trail of how a ransomware assault progressed within the network helps you to evaluate the impact and brings to light weaknesses in security policies or processes that need to be corrected to prevent future breaches. Forensic analysis is usually given a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often mandated by state and industry regulations. Since forensics can be time consuming, it is critical that other important activities like business resumption are pursued concurrently. Progent maintains a large team of IT and security experts with the skills required to perform the work of containment, business resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensic analysis.
Ransomware forensics is arduous and calls for intimate interaction with the teams assigned to file restoration and, if necessary, payment talks with the ransomware attacker. forensics typically involve the review of logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to look for variations.
Services involved with forensics analysis include:
- Detach but avoid shutting off all possibly suspect devices from the network. This can involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing 2FA to secure backups.
- Preserve forensically valid duplicates of all suspect devices so your file restoration group can get started
- Save firewall, VPN, and additional key logs as quickly as possible
- Establish the variety of ransomware used in the assault
- Inspect every computer and storage device on the system as well as cloud-hosted storage for signs of encryption
- Inventory all compromised devices
- Determine the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
- Review logs and user sessions to establish the timeline of the ransomware assault and to spot any possible lateral migration from the first infected machine
- Understand the attack vectors exploited to carry out the ransomware attack
- Look for the creation of executables surrounding the first encrypted files or system compromise
- Parse Outlook PST files
- Analyze attachments
- Extract any URLs embedded in email messages and determine whether they are malware
- Produce comprehensive attack reporting to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
- Document recommendations to close security gaps and improve workflows that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware breach
Progent's Background
Progent has delivered remote and on-premises IT services across the U.S. for more than two decades and has earned Microsoft's Gold Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's team of subject matter experts (SMEs) includes professionals who have earned high-level certifications in core technology platforms including Cisco infrastructure, VMware, and major Linux distros. Progent's data security consultants have earned prestigious certifications such as CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, and GIAC. (Refer to certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also offers guidance in financial management and Enterprise Resource Planning application software. This broad array of expertise allows Progent to identify and consolidate the undamaged parts of your information system following a ransomware attack and reconstruct them quickly into an operational system. Progent has collaborated with top cyber insurance carriers like Chubb to assist businesses clean up after ransomware attacks.
Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Expertise in Carlsbad
To learn more information about ways Progent can assist your Carlsbad business with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.