Ransomware Response Services in Montreal

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting Services in Montreal
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware attack and perform a detailed forensics analysis without slowing down activity related to operational resumption and data restoration. Your Montreal business can utilize Progent's forensics documentation to counter subsequent ransomware attacks, assist in the cleanup of lost data, and meet insurance and regulatory mandates.

Ransomware forensics analysis involves discovering and documenting the ransomware attack's storyline across the targeted network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware attack travelled within the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the impact and highlights vulnerabilities in security policies or processes that need to be corrected to avoid later breaches. Forensics is typically given a high priority by the insurance provider and is often mandated by state and industry regulations. Since forensics can be time consuming, it is essential that other key activities like business resumption are executed in parallel. Progent maintains an extensive roster of information technology and cybersecurity professionals with the knowledge and experience needed to carry out activities for containment, business continuity, and data recovery without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics analysis is time consuming and requires close cooperation with the teams responsible for data recovery and, if needed, settlement talks with the ransomware adversary. Ransomware forensics typically involve the review of logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to detect changes.

Services associated with forensics investigation include:

• Detach without shutting off all possibly affected devices from the network. This may require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and setting up two-factor authentication to secure backups.
• Create forensically valid images of all suspect devices so the file restoration team can get started
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional key logs as quickly as feasible
• Determine the strain of ransomware used in the attack
• Examine each computer and data store on the system as well as cloud storage for signs of compromise
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Review log activity and sessions in order to determine the timeline of the ransomware attack and to spot any potential lateral migration from the originally infected system
• Identify the security gaps used to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Search for the creation of executables surrounding the original encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze email attachments
• Extract any URLs embedded in messages and determine whether they are malware
• Produce comprehensive incident reporting to meet your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
• Suggest recommended improvements to shore up security vulnerabilities and enforce processes that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

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