Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Centennial
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the evidence of a ransomware attack and carry out a detailed forensics investigation without disrupting activity required for operational continuity and data restoration. Your Centennial business can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics report to counter subsequent ransomware attacks, validate the cleanup of lost data, and comply with insurance carrier and regulatory mandates.
Ransomware forensics investigation is aimed at discovering and describing the ransomware attack's storyline across the targeted network from start to finish. This history of the way a ransomware assault progressed within the network assists you to assess the impact and brings to light weaknesses in security policies or work habits that need to be rectified to avoid later break-ins. Forensic analysis is usually given a top priority by the insurance provider and is typically mandated by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can take time, it is vital that other key activities such as operational continuity are performed concurrently. Progent has a large team of IT and data security professionals with the knowledge and experience needed to perform activities for containment, operational resumption, and data recovery without disrupting forensic analysis.
Ransomware forensics analysis is complicated and calls for close interaction with the teams focused on file recovery and, if needed, payment discussions with the ransomware threat actor. forensics can involve the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to look for anomalies.
Activities involved with forensics analysis include:
- Isolate without shutting down all possibly impacted devices from the system. This may involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring two-factor authentication to guard your backups.
- Preserve forensically complete digital images of all suspect devices so your data recovery team can get started
- Save firewall, virtual private network, and additional key logs as quickly as feasible
- Identify the type of ransomware involved in the assault
- Examine every machine and data store on the network including cloud storage for signs of encryption
- Catalog all compromised devices
- Determine the type of ransomware used in the attack
- Review logs and sessions in order to determine the time frame of the attack and to identify any potential sideways migration from the originally compromised machine
- Identify the security gaps exploited to carry out the ransomware assault
- Search for new executables associated with the original encrypted files or system compromise
- Parse Outlook PST files
- Examine email attachments
- Extract any URLs from messages and determine if they are malicious
- Provide comprehensive incident documentation to meet your insurance and compliance regulations
- Document recommended improvements to shore up security gaps and enforce workflows that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach
Progent's Background
Progent has delivered remote and on-premises network services across the U.S. for more than 20 years and has been awarded Microsoft's Gold Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's team of subject matter experts includes professionals who have been awarded high-level certifications in foundation technologies such as Cisco infrastructure, VMware virtualization, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's cybersecurity experts have earned industry-recognized certifications including CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, and CRISC. (See Progent's certifications). Progent also has top-tier support in financial and ERP applications. This breadth of expertise gives Progent the ability to identify and consolidate the surviving pieces of your IT environment after a ransomware attack and reconstruct them rapidly into a viable network. Progent has collaborated with top cyber insurance providers like Chubb to help businesses recover from ransomware assaults.
Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Services in Centennial
To find out more information about ways Progent can help your Centennial business with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.