Ransomware Response Services in Anchorage

Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Anchorage
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the evidence of a ransomware attack and carry out a comprehensive forensics analysis without impeding the processes required for business resumption and data restoration. Your Anchorage business can utilize Progent's forensics documentation to combat future ransomware attacks, validate the restoration of encrypted data, and meet insurance and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at determining and describing the ransomware assault's storyline throughout the targeted network from beginning to end. This history of the way a ransomware attack progressed through the network helps your IT staff to evaluate the damage and uncovers weaknesses in security policies or work habits that should be rectified to prevent later break-ins. Forensics is commonly assigned a top priority by the insurance carrier and is typically required by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can take time, it is essential that other important activities such as business continuity are executed concurrently. Progent maintains a large team of IT and cybersecurity professionals with the knowledge and experience required to perform the work of containment, business resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is complex and calls for intimate cooperation with the teams focused on file restoration and, if necessary, payment discussions with the ransomware hacker. forensics typically require the review of all logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory, DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to look for variations.

Activities associated with forensics include:

• Disconnect without shutting down all potentially suspect devices from the system. This can require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing 2FA to secure your backups.
• Copy forensically complete duplicates of all exposed devices so the file recovery team can proceed
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and other key logs as soon as feasible
• Determine the variety of ransomware used in the assault
• Inspect each computer and storage device on the network as well as cloud storage for signs of compromise
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Establish the type of ransomware involved in the assault
• Study logs and user sessions in order to establish the time frame of the assault and to identify any potential lateral migration from the first infected system
• Understand the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Search for the creation of executables surrounding the first encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze attachments
• Separate any URLs embedded in messages and determine if they are malware
• Produce detailed attack reporting to meet your insurance carrier and compliance mandates
• Suggest recommendations to shore up security vulnerabilities and enforce processes that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

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