Ransomware Response Consultants in Chattanooga

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting Services in Chattanooga
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the system state after a ransomware assault and carry out a comprehensive forensics investigation without impeding activity related to business continuity and data recovery. Your Chattanooga business can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics report to block subsequent ransomware attacks, validate the recovery of lost data, and meet insurance and governmental requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at tracking and documenting the ransomware attack's progress across the network from start to finish. This audit trail of the way a ransomware attack travelled within the network helps your IT staff to assess the damage and uncovers gaps in rules or work habits that need to be rectified to avoid later breaches. Forensic analysis is commonly given a top priority by the insurance carrier and is often mandated by state and industry regulations. Because forensics can take time, it is critical that other important activities like business continuity are pursued concurrently. Progent maintains a large roster of IT and cybersecurity experts with the skills needed to carry out the work of containment, business continuity, and data recovery without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is complicated and requires intimate cooperation with the groups responsible for data recovery and, if needed, settlement negotiation with the ransomware hacker. forensics typically require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory, DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to check for variations.

Services involved with forensics include:

• Isolate but avoid shutting down all possibly impacted devices from the network. This can involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing 2FA to guard backups.
• Copy forensically complete digital images of all suspect devices so your data restoration team can get started
• Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and additional critical logs as quickly as possible
• Identify the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Examine each computer and storage device on the system including cloud-hosted storage for indications of encryption
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Establish the type of ransomware used in the assault
• Study logs and sessions in order to establish the timeline of the ransomware attack and to identify any possible sideways migration from the originally infected system
• Understand the security gaps exploited to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Search for the creation of executables associated with the first encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in messages and determine whether they are malicious
• Provide extensive attack reporting to satisfy your insurance and compliance mandates
• Document recommendations to shore up cybersecurity gaps and enforce processes that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware breach

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