Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Anchorage

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting in Anchorage
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the evidence of a ransomware assault and carry out a comprehensive forensics analysis without disrupting the processes required for business resumption and data restoration. Your Anchorage business can use Progent's forensics documentation to block future ransomware attacks, validate the restoration of lost data, and comply with insurance and regulatory requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation is aimed at discovering and describing 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 assists you to assess the damage and highlights vulnerabilities in rules or work habits that should be rectified to avoid later breaches. Forensic analysis is usually given a high priority by the cyber insurance provider and is often required by government and industry regulations. Since forensics can take time, it is essential that other important recovery processes like operational continuity are executed concurrently. Progent maintains a large team of information technology and cybersecurity experts with the knowledge and experience required to carry out the work of containment, business continuity, and data recovery without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is arduous and calls for close interaction with the teams responsible for file restoration and, if necessary, payment talks with the ransomware Threat Actor (TA). Ransomware forensics can require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to detect variations.

Services involved with forensics investigation include:

• Isolate but avoid shutting off all possibly impacted devices from the network. This can require closing all RDP ports and Internet connected NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring two-factor authentication to protect backups.
• Capture forensically complete images of all suspect devices so your file restoration team can proceed
• Save firewall, VPN, and additional key logs as soon as possible
• Establish the strain of ransomware involved in the attack
• Inspect every computer and storage device on the network as well as cloud storage for signs of encryption
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Establish the type of ransomware used in the assault
• Review logs and sessions to establish the timeline of the assault and to identify any possible sideways migration from the originally infected machine
• Identify the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Search for the creation of executables surrounding the first encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine email attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in email messages and check to see if they are malicious
• Provide comprehensive incident documentation to satisfy your insurance and compliance regulations
• Suggest recommendations to shore up cybersecurity gaps and improve processes that lower the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Services in Anchorage
To learn more information about how Progent can help your Anchorage organization with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.