Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Chesapeake

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Chesapeake
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware attack and carry out a comprehensive forensics investigation without slowing down the processes related to business resumption and data restoration. Your Chesapeake organization can use Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics report to combat subsequent ransomware assaults, validate the cleanup of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and governmental requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation is aimed at determining and describing the ransomware attack's progress throughout the targeted network from beginning to end. This history of the way a ransomware assault progressed within the network helps your IT staff to assess the damage and highlights weaknesses in rules or work habits that should be corrected to prevent future breaches. Forensics is usually assigned a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically mandated by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is essential that other key recovery processes such as operational continuity are performed concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive roster of IT and security experts with the skills required to perform the work of containment, operational resumption, and data recovery without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics is arduous and requires intimate cooperation with the teams assigned to data cleanup and, if necessary, payment talks with the ransomware adversary. forensics can involve the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to look for variations.

Services involved with forensics include:

• Disconnect without shutting down all possibly affected devices from the network. This can involve closing all RDP ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing two-factor authentication to guard backups.
• Copy forensically valid images of all exposed devices so your file recovery team can get started
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and additional critical logs as soon as feasible
• Identify the type of ransomware used in the attack
• Inspect every machine and data store on the network including cloud-hosted storage for signs of encryption
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Study logs and user sessions to establish the time frame of the ransomware assault and to identify any possible lateral migration from the first infected machine
• Identify the attack vectors exploited to carry out the ransomware assault
• Search for the creation of executables associated with the original encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine email attachments
• Extract any URLs from messages and determine whether they are malicious
• Provide extensive incident documentation to meet your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
• List recommended improvements to shore up cybersecurity vulnerabilities and improve workflows that reduce the risk of a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Services in Chesapeake
To learn more information about how Progent can help your Chesapeake organization with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.