Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in Cabo Frio
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without disrupting activity required for operational continuity and data recovery. Your Cabo Frio business can utilize Progent's ransomware forensics report to combat subsequent ransomware attacks, validate the restoration of lost data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory requirements.
Ransomware forensics involves tracking and documenting the ransomware attack's storyline throughout the targeted network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware assault travelled through the network assists you to assess the impact and uncovers vulnerabilities in security policies or processes that need to be corrected to prevent later break-ins. Forensic analysis is typically assigned a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often mandated by state and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is essential that other key recovery processes like operational resumption are executed concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive roster of information technology and data security experts with the skills needed to perform the work of containment, operational continuity, and data restoration without interfering with forensic analysis.
Ransomware forensics analysis is complex and requires intimate interaction with the teams assigned to file recovery and, if needed, payment discussions with the ransomware Threat Actor (TA). forensics can require the examination of logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to check for anomalies.
Activities associated with forensics investigation include:
- Detach without shutting down all potentially suspect devices from the system. This may require closing all RDP ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring 2FA to protect your backups.
- Preserve forensically complete images of all exposed devices so your data restoration team can proceed
- Save firewall, VPN, and other key logs as soon as feasible
- Establish the strain of ransomware used in the assault
- Examine each computer and storage device on the network as well as cloud storage for indications of compromise
- Inventory all compromised devices
- Establish the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
- Review log activity and user sessions in order to establish the timeline of the attack and to identify any possible lateral migration from the originally infected system
- Identify the security gaps exploited to perpetrate the ransomware assault
- Search for new executables surrounding the first encrypted files or system compromise
- Parse Outlook PST files
- Examine attachments
- Separate any URLs embedded in email messages and determine whether they are malicious
- Produce comprehensive incident reporting to satisfy your insurance and compliance mandates
- List recommended improvements to shore up security vulnerabilities and improve processes that reduce the risk of a future ransomware breach
Progent's Background
Progent has delivered remote and onsite IT services throughout the United States for more than two decades and has been awarded Microsoft's Gold Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's team of subject matter experts (SMEs) includes consultants who have been awarded advanced certifications in core technology platforms including Cisco networking, VMware virtualization, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's data security experts have earned industry-recognized certifications such as CISM, CISSP, and CRISC. (See Progent's certifications). Progent also offers top-tier support in financial and ERP software. This broad array of expertise allows Progent to identify and integrate the undamaged parts of your network after a ransomware assault and rebuild them quickly into a functioning network. Progent has worked with top insurance carriers like Chubb to help businesses recover from ransomware assaults.
Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Services in Cabo Frio
To learn more about how Progent can assist your Cabo Frio organization with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.