Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Monterey

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting Services in Monterey
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the system state after a ransomware attack and perform a detailed forensics investigation without impeding the processes required for business resumption and data restoration. Your Monterey organization can utilize Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics documentation to counter future ransomware attacks, validate the restoration of lost data, and comply with insurance carrier and regulatory requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis involves tracking and describing the ransomware attack's storyline throughout the targeted network from start to finish. This audit trail of how a ransomware assault progressed through the network helps you to evaluate the impact and brings to light weaknesses in policies or processes that need to be corrected to avoid later break-ins. Forensic analysis is commonly assigned a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often required by state and industry regulations. Because forensics can take time, it is essential that other key recovery processes such as business resumption are executed in parallel. Progent has a large roster of IT and cybersecurity professionals with the knowledge and experience required to perform activities for containment, business resumption, and data recovery without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is arduous and calls for close cooperation with the groups focused on data recovery and, if needed, settlement talks with the ransomware Threat Actor. forensics typically require the review of all logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to look for variations.

Activities associated with forensics investigation include:

• Isolate without shutting down all possibly impacted devices from the network. This may involve closing all RDP ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring two-factor authentication to secure your backups.
• Preserve forensically sound digital images of all suspect devices so the file restoration team can get started
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional key logs as soon as possible
• Establish the strain of ransomware involved in the assault
• Inspect every computer and storage device on the network as well as cloud storage for indications of compromise
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Study log activity and user sessions in order to establish the time frame of the assault and to spot any potential sideways migration from the first infected system
• Understand the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Search for the creation of executables associated with the original encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine email attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in messages and check to see whether they are malware
• Provide extensive attack documentation to meet your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
• Document recommended improvements to shore up cybersecurity vulnerabilities and enforce workflows that reduce the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Expertise in Monterey
To find out more information about ways Progent can assist your Monterey organization with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.