Ransomware Response Services in Montreal

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting in Montreal
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a detailed forensics analysis without slowing down activity required for operational resumption and data recovery. Your Montreal business can use Progent's ransomware forensics report to counter subsequent ransomware assaults, validate the recovery of lost data, and comply with insurance and governmental mandates.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at tracking and documenting the ransomware assault's progress throughout the network from start to finish. This history of the way a ransomware assault progressed within the network assists your IT staff to assess the impact and highlights vulnerabilities in policies or processes that need to be rectified to prevent future breaches. Forensic analysis is usually given a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically required by state and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is vital that other important recovery processes like business resumption are performed concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive team of IT and data security professionals with the knowledge and experience needed to perform the work of containment, business resumption, and data restoration without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics investigation is complex and calls for intimate interaction with the teams responsible for data restoration and, if necessary, settlement talks with the ransomware hacker. Ransomware forensics can involve the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to detect changes.

Services involved with forensics analysis include:

• Isolate without shutting down all possibly affected devices from the network. This may require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up 2FA to guard your backups.
• Copy forensically valid duplicates of all exposed devices so the file restoration team can get started
• Save firewall, VPN, and other critical logs as quickly as feasible
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Inspect each computer and storage device on the system as well as cloud storage for signs of encryption
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Determine the type of ransomware used in the assault
• Review logs and sessions in order to establish the time frame of the ransomware assault and to spot any potential lateral movement from the first infected machine
• Understand the security gaps used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Search for the creation of executables surrounding the first encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine email attachments
• Extract any URLs embedded in messages and check to see whether they are malware
• Provide detailed incident documentation to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance mandates
• List recommendations to close security vulnerabilities and enforce workflows that lower the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Expertise in Montreal
To learn more about how Progent can assist your Montreal organization with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.