Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Albany

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting Services in Albany
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without slowing down the processes required for operational resumption and data recovery. Your Albany organization can use Progent's ransomware forensics documentation to block future ransomware attacks, validate the restoration of lost data, and comply with insurance carrier and governmental mandates.

Ransomware forensics investigation involves tracking and documenting the ransomware attack's storyline throughout the network from beginning to end. This history of the way a ransomware attack progressed through the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the impact and uncovers shortcomings in rules or work habits that need to be corrected to avoid future breaches. Forensic analysis is usually assigned a top priority by the insurance carrier and is often required by government and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can take time, it is vital that other key activities such as operational resumption are performed concurrently. Progent has a large roster of IT and security experts with the knowledge and experience needed to perform the work of containment, operational resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is complex and requires close interaction with the teams assigned to file restoration and, if necessary, payment discussions with the ransomware threat actor. forensics typically require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to detect variations.

Services associated with forensics analysis include:

• Isolate without shutting off all possibly affected devices from the network. This may involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and configuring two-factor authentication to guard your backups.
• Preserve forensically complete images of all exposed devices so your file recovery group can get started
• Save firewall, VPN, and other critical logs as soon as possible
• Establish the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Inspect every computer and storage device on the system including cloud-hosted storage for signs of encryption
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Review logs and sessions in order to determine the timeline of the attack and to identify any possible lateral migration from the first compromised machine
• Understand the security gaps used to carry out the ransomware attack
• Look for the creation of executables associated with the original encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine attachments
• Separate any URLs embedded in email messages and determine if they are malicious
• Produce extensive attack reporting to meet your insurance carrier and compliance regulations
• Suggest recommended improvements to close security vulnerabilities and improve processes that lower the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Services in Albany
To find out more about how Progent can assist your Albany organization with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.