Ransomware Response Services in Charlotte

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting in Charlotte
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can save the system state after a ransomware attack and carry out a detailed forensics analysis without interfering with the processes related to operational continuity and data restoration. Your Charlotte business can use Progent's forensics documentation to combat subsequent ransomware assaults, validate the cleanup of lost data, and comply with insurance carrier and regulatory reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation involves determining and describing the ransomware attack's storyline across the targeted network from start to finish. This audit trail of the way a ransomware attack travelled through the network helps you to evaluate the impact and brings to light shortcomings in policies or work habits that need to be rectified to avoid future breaches. Forensic analysis is typically assigned a high priority by the insurance provider and is often required by state and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can take time, it is essential that other important recovery processes like business resumption are performed in parallel. Progent has an extensive roster of information technology and data security professionals with the skills needed to carry out the work of containment, operational continuity, and data restoration without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics is time consuming and calls for intimate interaction with the teams responsible for data restoration and, if necessary, payment talks with the ransomware hacker. Ransomware forensics can require the examination of logs, registry, GPO, AD, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to check for variations.

Activities associated with forensics include:

• Detach without shutting off all possibly suspect devices from the network. This may involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring 2FA to secure your backups.
• Create forensically complete images of all suspect devices so your file recovery team can proceed
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional key logs as quickly as feasible
• Determine the strain of ransomware used in the attack
• Examine each machine and data store on the system including cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Study log activity and sessions to establish the timeline of the ransomware attack and to identify any potential sideways migration from the originally compromised machine
• Understand the security gaps exploited to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Look for the creation of executables surrounding the original encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze email attachments
• Separate URLs embedded in email messages and check to see if they are malware
• Provide detailed attack reporting to meet your insurance carrier and compliance mandates
• List recommendations to shore up cybersecurity gaps and enforce processes that reduce the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Expertise in Charlotte
To find out more about ways Progent can assist your Charlotte business with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.