Ransomware Response Consultants in Spartanburg

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting Services in Spartanburg
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can capture the system state after a ransomware assault and carry out a comprehensive forensics analysis without interfering with activity related to business continuity and data recovery. Your Spartanburg business can utilize Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics report to counter subsequent ransomware attacks, validate the restoration of encrypted data, and comply with insurance carrier and governmental mandates.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at tracking and documenting the ransomware attack's progress throughout the targeted network from beginning to end. This audit trail of the way a ransomware assault travelled within the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the impact and brings to light gaps in security policies or processes that need to be rectified to avoid future breaches. Forensics is usually given a high priority by the insurance provider and is often mandated by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is essential that other key recovery processes such as operational resumption are pursued in parallel. Progent maintains an extensive team of information technology and data security professionals with the skills needed to perform activities for containment, business resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics analysis is complex and requires intimate interaction with the groups responsible for data restoration and, if needed, settlement talks with the ransomware hacker. forensics typically involve the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), AD, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to detect variations.

Activities associated with forensics analysis include:

• Isolate but avoid shutting off all potentially affected devices from the network. This can require closing all RDP ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and implementing two-factor authentication to guard backups.
• Capture forensically valid digital images of all suspect devices so your file restoration team can proceed
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and other critical logs as soon as feasible
• Establish the version of ransomware involved in the attack
• Examine every computer and storage device on the system as well as cloud storage for signs of encryption
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Determine the type of ransomware involved in the attack
• Study log activity and user sessions in order to determine the timeline of the assault and to spot any possible sideways movement from the originally compromised system
• Understand the security gaps used to carry out the ransomware assault
• Look for the creation of executables associated with the original encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in messages and check to see whether they are malware
• Produce extensive attack reporting to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
• List recommendations to close cybersecurity gaps and enforce workflows that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Expertise in Spartanburg
To find out more about how Progent can help your Spartanburg organization with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.