Ransomware Response Consultants in Santos

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting in Santos
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can save the system state after a ransomware attack and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without impeding the processes related to business continuity and data restoration. Your Santos organization can utilize Progent's forensics documentation to counter subsequent ransomware assaults, assist in the cleanup of lost data, and comply with insurance and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics involves tracking and documenting the ransomware attack's storyline across the network from start to finish. This history of the way a ransomware assault progressed through the network assists you to assess the impact and highlights weaknesses in policies or processes that need to be rectified to avoid future breaches. Forensic analysis is commonly given a high priority by the cyber insurance provider and is typically mandated by state and industry regulations. Because forensics can take time, it is essential that other key activities like business continuity are executed in parallel. Progent maintains an extensive roster of IT and security experts with the skills required to carry out activities for containment, operational resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics investigation is complicated and calls for intimate interaction with the teams focused on data restoration and, if necessary, settlement negotiation with the ransomware Threat Actor (TA). Ransomware forensics can require the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to check for variations.

Activities associated with forensics include:

• Disconnect without shutting down all possibly impacted devices from the system. This may require closing all RDP ports and Internet connected NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and implementing 2FA to protect your backups.
• Copy forensically valid duplicates of all exposed devices so the file recovery team can proceed
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and other critical logs as soon as feasible
• Identify the type of ransomware used in the attack
• Inspect each machine and storage device on the network as well as cloud storage for indications of encryption
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Review log activity and user sessions in order to determine the time frame of the assault and to spot any potential sideways movement from the originally compromised machine
• Understand the attack vectors used to carry out the ransomware assault
• Search for new executables surrounding the original encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze email attachments
• Extract any URLs from messages and check to see if they are malware
• Produce extensive incident reporting to meet your insurance carrier and compliance mandates
• List recommendations to shore up security vulnerabilities and enforce workflows that lower the risk of a future ransomware exploit

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