Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting Services in Valencia
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the system state after a ransomware attack and perform a detailed forensics investigation without impeding activity related to business resumption and data restoration. Your Valencia organization can use Progent's post-attack forensics report to block subsequent ransomware assaults, validate the cleanup of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory reporting requirements.
Ransomware forensics analysis involves tracking and documenting the ransomware assault's storyline throughout the network from beginning to end. This audit trail of the way a ransomware attack travelled within the network assists you to evaluate the impact and highlights shortcomings in security policies or work habits that need to be rectified to avoid future break-ins. Forensics is commonly 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 essential that other key activities such as operational resumption are pursued in parallel. Progent has a large roster of IT and security professionals with the skills needed to perform activities for containment, operational continuity, and data restoration without disrupting forensics.
Ransomware forensics is complicated and calls for intimate cooperation with the teams assigned to file restoration and, if needed, settlement discussions with the ransomware threat actor. forensics typically require the examination of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to look for variations.
Activities involved with forensics analysis include:
- Detach without shutting off all potentially impacted devices from the network. This may require closing all RDP ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and setting up two-factor authentication to secure your backups.
- Copy forensically valid duplicates of all suspect devices so the data recovery team can get started
- Preserve firewall, VPN, and other key logs as soon as feasible
- Determine the strain of ransomware used in the assault
- Examine each computer and storage device on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of encryption
- Inventory all encrypted devices
- Establish the type of ransomware involved in the attack
- Review log activity and sessions to establish the time frame of the assault and to identify any potential sideways migration from the originally compromised system
- Identify the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
- Search for the creation of executables surrounding the original encrypted files or network breach
- Parse Outlook web archives
- Examine attachments
- Extract any URLs from email messages and determine if they are malicious
- Produce comprehensive attack reporting to meet your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
- Document recommended improvements to shore up cybersecurity gaps and improve processes that lower the risk of a future ransomware exploit
Progent's Background
Progent has provided online and on-premises IT services throughout the United States for over 20 years and has earned Microsoft's Gold Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's team of SMEs includes professionals who have been awarded high-level certifications in foundation technologies including Cisco infrastructure, VMware, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's data security consultants have earned industry-recognized certifications including CISM, CISSP-ISSAP, and GIAC. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also offers top-tier support in financial management and ERP applications. This broad array of expertise gives Progent the ability to salvage and consolidate the surviving parts of your network following a ransomware assault and reconstruct them rapidly into a functioning system. Progent has collaborated with top cyber insurance providers like Chubb to help organizations recover from ransomware assaults.
Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Expertise in Valencia
To find out more about ways Progent can help your Valencia business with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.