Ransomware Response Services in Ottawa

Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Ottawa
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the evidence of a ransomware attack and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without interfering with activity related to business continuity and data recovery. Your Ottawa business can use Progent's forensics documentation to counter future ransomware assaults, assist in the restoration of lost data, and meet insurance and regulatory mandates.

Ransomware forensics investigation involves discovering and documenting the ransomware attack's storyline throughout the network from beginning to end. This history of the way a ransomware attack progressed within the network helps you to assess the damage and highlights weaknesses in security policies or processes that should be corrected to prevent later breaches. Forensic analysis is commonly given a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically required by government and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is critical that other important recovery processes like business continuity are performed in parallel. Progent has an extensive roster of information technology and data security experts with the knowledge and experience needed to carry out the work of containment, business resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics is complex and requires intimate cooperation with the teams responsible for file cleanup and, if necessary, payment talks with the ransomware hacker. forensics typically require the review of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory, DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to look for anomalies.

Services involved with forensics analysis include:

• Isolate without shutting off all possibly impacted devices from the system. This can require closing all RDP ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring 2FA to guard backups.
• Create forensically complete duplicates of all exposed devices so your data restoration team can get started
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as soon as possible
• Identify the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Survey each computer and data store on the system as well as cloud storage for signs of compromise
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Establish the type of ransomware involved in the attack
• Study log activity and user sessions in order to establish the time frame of the attack and to identify any possible lateral migration from the first compromised machine
• Understand the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Look for new executables associated with the first encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze email attachments
• Extract URLs from messages and determine whether they are malware
• Produce detailed incident documentation to meet your insurance and compliance regulations
• Document recommendations to shore up cybersecurity vulnerabilities and enforce processes that lower the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Expertise in Ottawa
To learn more information about how Progent can help your Ottawa organization with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.