Ransomware Response Consultants in Santos

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in Santos
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without disrupting the processes required for operational continuity and data restoration. Your Santos business can utilize Progent's forensics documentation to counter subsequent ransomware assaults, assist in the restoration of lost data, and meet insurance and regulatory mandates.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at tracking and describing the ransomware assault's storyline across the targeted network from start to finish. This history of the way a ransomware attack progressed through the network assists your IT staff to assess the damage and brings to light shortcomings in security policies or processes that need to be rectified to prevent future break-ins. Forensic analysis is typically assigned a high priority by the insurance provider and is often required by state and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can take time, it is critical that other important activities like operational continuity are pursued concurrently. Progent has an extensive team of IT and cybersecurity experts with the knowledge and experience required to perform the work of containment, business resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics investigation is complex and calls for close cooperation with the groups focused on file recovery and, if needed, payment discussions with the ransomware Threat Actor. Ransomware forensics can require the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to check for anomalies.

Activities involved with forensics analysis include:

• Detach but avoid shutting off all potentially impacted devices from the network. This can require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and implementing two-factor authentication to guard your backups.
• Capture forensically complete duplicates of all exposed devices so your file restoration group can get started
• Save firewall, VPN, and additional key logs as soon as feasible
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Survey every computer and data store on the system including cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Review log activity and user sessions in order to establish the time frame of the ransomware attack and to spot any potential lateral movement from the originally infected machine
• Understand the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Look for new executables associated with the first encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine attachments
• Separate URLs from messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Produce extensive incident documentation to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
• Suggest recommended improvements to shore up cybersecurity vulnerabilities and improve workflows that lower the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

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