Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Dayton

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting Services in Dayton
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the system state after a ransomware attack and carry out a detailed forensics analysis without disrupting activity required for operational resumption and data recovery. Your Dayton business can use Progent's ransomware forensics documentation to block subsequent ransomware assaults, assist in the recovery of lost data, and comply with insurance and regulatory reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at discovering and describing the ransomware attack's progress throughout the network from beginning to end. This audit trail of how a ransomware attack travelled within the network helps your IT staff to evaluate the impact and brings to light gaps in security policies or work habits that need to be rectified to prevent later break-ins. Forensic analysis is usually assigned a top priority by the insurance carrier and is typically mandated by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is critical that other key activities like business resumption are performed in parallel. Progent has an extensive roster of IT and data security experts with the skills required to perform activities for containment, operational continuity, and data recovery without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is complicated and requires intimate cooperation with the teams focused on file recovery and, if needed, payment negotiation with the ransomware Threat Actor. forensics typically require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to check for changes.

Activities involved with forensics include:

• Disconnect but avoid shutting off all possibly impacted devices from the network. This may involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and implementing two-factor authentication to guard your backups.
• Capture forensically valid images of all suspect devices so your data recovery group can proceed
• Save firewall, VPN, and other critical logs as quickly as feasible
• Determine the version of ransomware involved in the attack
• Survey every machine and data store on the network including cloud-hosted storage for signs of compromise
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Establish the type of ransomware used in the attack
• Review logs and sessions in order to establish the time frame of the attack and to spot any possible sideways movement from the first infected machine
• Identify the security gaps used to carry out the ransomware attack
• Look for new executables associated with the original encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze attachments
• Separate URLs from messages and check to see if they are malware
• Produce detailed incident documentation to meet your insurance carrier and compliance mandates
• List recommendations to shore up security gaps and improve workflows that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Services in Dayton
To learn more about ways Progent can help your Dayton business with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.