Ransomware Response Services in Santos

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Santos
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the system state after a ransomware attack and carry out a detailed forensics analysis without slowing down activity related to business resumption and data restoration. Your Santos organization can use Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics report to counter subsequent ransomware assaults, validate the cleanup of lost data, and meet insurance and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at discovering and documenting the ransomware attack's progress across the network from start to finish. This audit trail of how a ransomware assault travelled through the network assists you to assess the damage and highlights shortcomings in security policies or processes that should be rectified to prevent future break-ins. Forensic analysis is usually assigned a high priority by the insurance carrier and is often mandated by state and industry regulations. Because forensics can be time consuming, it is vital that other important activities like operational continuity are performed in parallel. Progent has a large roster of IT and cybersecurity professionals with the knowledge and experience required to perform the work of containment, operational resumption, and data recovery without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is complicated and calls for intimate cooperation with the groups responsible for data recovery and, if needed, settlement negotiation with the ransomware Threat Actor. Ransomware forensics can require the review of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to check for changes.

Services involved with forensics investigation include:

• Detach but avoid shutting down all possibly impacted devices from the system. This may involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring two-factor authentication to guard backups.
• Create forensically complete duplicates of all suspect devices so your data restoration team can proceed
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and additional key logs as quickly as possible
• Establish the version of ransomware used in the attack
• Survey each computer and data store on the network as well as cloud storage for indications of compromise
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Determine the type of ransomware involved in the attack
• Review log activity and sessions to establish the time frame of the attack and to identify any possible sideways migration from the originally compromised system
• Understand the security gaps exploited to carry out the ransomware attack
• Search for the creation of executables surrounding the original encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze email attachments
• Extract URLs from email messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Provide extensive attack reporting to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
• List recommendations to close security vulnerabilities and enforce workflows that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

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