Ransomware Response Consultants in Ottawa

Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Ottawa
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the system state after a ransomware attack and carry out a detailed forensics investigation without slowing down the processes related to business resumption and data restoration. Your Ottawa organization can utilize Progent's ransomware forensics report to counter future ransomware assaults, validate the restoration of lost data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis involves tracking and documenting the ransomware attack's progress throughout the network from start to finish. This history of how a ransomware assault progressed through the network helps you to evaluate the damage and uncovers shortcomings in policies or processes that should be rectified to prevent future break-ins. Forensic analysis is typically given a top priority by the cyber insurance provider and is often required by government and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can take time, it is vital that other key activities such as business resumption are executed concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive team of IT and data security experts with the knowledge and experience required to carry out the work of containment, business continuity, and data recovery without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics is time consuming and requires close cooperation with the groups assigned to data restoration and, if needed, payment negotiation with the ransomware Threat Actor. forensics typically involve the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to detect changes.

Services associated with forensics analysis include:

• Detach without shutting down all potentially affected devices from the network. This can require closing all RDP ports and Internet facing NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and setting up two-factor authentication to guard your backups.
• Copy forensically sound images of all suspect devices so the data restoration group can proceed
• Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and additional key logs as soon as feasible
• Establish the strain of ransomware used in the attack
• Inspect every machine and data store on the network including cloud storage for signs of encryption
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Determine the type of ransomware used in the attack
• Study log activity and sessions in order to establish the timeline of the ransomware assault and to spot any potential lateral migration from the originally compromised system
• Understand the attack vectors exploited to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Look for the creation of executables associated with the original encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine email attachments
• Extract any URLs embedded in email messages and determine whether they are malware
• Provide detailed incident documentation to satisfy your insurance and compliance requirements
• Document recommendations to close cybersecurity gaps and improve processes that lower the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Expertise in Ottawa
To learn more about ways Progent can assist your Ottawa organization with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.