Ransomware Response Consultants in Niterói

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in Niterói
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the system state after a ransomware attack and perform a detailed forensics analysis without disrupting activity related to business continuity and data recovery. Your Niterói business can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics documentation to counter subsequent ransomware attacks, assist in the recovery of lost data, and comply with insurance carrier and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at determining and describing the ransomware attack's storyline throughout the targeted network from start to finish. This history of the way a ransomware attack travelled within the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the impact and highlights weaknesses in security policies or processes that need to be corrected to prevent future breaches. Forensics is commonly given a high priority by the insurance carrier and is typically mandated by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can take time, it is essential that other important activities such as business resumption are performed in parallel. Progent has an extensive team of information technology and cybersecurity professionals with the skills required to carry out activities for containment, business continuity, and data recovery without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is arduous and calls for close interaction with the teams focused on data restoration and, if needed, settlement negotiation with the ransomware hacker. Ransomware forensics can require the examination of logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to check for anomalies.

Activities associated with forensics analysis include:

• Detach without shutting down all possibly affected devices from the network. This can require closing all RDP ports and Internet facing NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and configuring 2FA to secure your backups.
• Preserve forensically sound images of all exposed devices so your data recovery group can proceed
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as quickly as possible
• Establish the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Survey every machine and storage device on the system as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of encryption
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Study logs and sessions to determine the time frame of the attack and to spot any possible lateral movement from the originally infected system
• Identify the security gaps used to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Search for new executables surrounding the original encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine email attachments
• Extract any URLs embedded in email messages and determine whether they are malware
• Provide comprehensive attack documentation to satisfy your insurance and compliance mandates
• Suggest recommendations to shore up security gaps and improve processes that lower the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

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