Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting in Huntington Beach
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without disrupting activity related to operational resumption and data restoration. Your Huntington Beach organization can utilize Progent's ransomware forensics report to counter subsequent ransomware assaults, validate the recovery of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory mandates.
Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at discovering and documenting the ransomware assault's storyline throughout the targeted network from beginning to end. This history of the way a ransomware attack travelled through the network helps you to assess the damage and brings to light gaps in policies or work habits that need to be corrected to avoid later breaches. Forensics is usually given a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically required by government and industry regulations. Because forensics can be time consuming, it is critical that other important activities like business resumption are pursued concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive roster of IT and cybersecurity experts with the knowledge and experience required to carry out the work of containment, operational resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensics.
Ransomware forensics investigation is arduous and requires intimate interaction with the groups responsible for file recovery and, if needed, payment discussions with the ransomware hacker. forensics typically require the examination of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to look for changes.
Services associated with forensics analysis include:
- Isolate but avoid shutting down all potentially impacted devices from the system. This may require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up two-factor authentication to secure your backups.
- Copy forensically sound duplicates of all suspect devices so your file recovery team can get started
- Save firewall, VPN, and additional key logs as quickly as feasible
- Identify the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
- Inspect every computer and data store on the system including cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
- Inventory all compromised devices
- Establish the type of ransomware used in the assault
- Study log activity and user sessions in order to determine the time frame of the ransomware attack and to identify any possible lateral migration from the originally infected machine
- Identify the attack vectors exploited to perpetrate the ransomware assault
- Search for new executables associated with the first encrypted files or system compromise
- Parse Outlook PST files
- Analyze attachments
- Extract URLs from messages and determine if they are malicious
- Provide comprehensive incident documentation to satisfy your insurance and compliance requirements
- Suggest recommended improvements to close security gaps and enforce workflows that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach
Progent's Qualifications
Progent has provided remote and on-premises network services throughout the United States for over two decades and has been awarded Microsoft's Partner certification in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's team of subject matter experts includes professionals who have been awarded advanced certifications in core technology platforms including Cisco networking, VMware, and popular distributions of Linux. Progent's data security experts have earned prestigious certifications such as CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, and CRISC. (Refer to certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also has guidance in financial and ERP applications. This breadth of skills allows Progent to salvage and integrate the undamaged parts of your information system following a ransomware attack and reconstruct them quickly into a viable system. Progent has worked with leading insurance carriers like Chubb to help organizations clean up after ransomware assaults.
Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Services in Huntington Beach
To learn more information about how Progent can help your Huntington Beach business with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.