Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Springfield

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Springfield
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the evidence of a ransomware attack and carry out a comprehensive forensics analysis without slowing down the processes required for operational resumption and data restoration. Your Springfield organization can utilize Progent's ransomware forensics report to combat subsequent ransomware assaults, validate the cleanup of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and governmental mandates.

Ransomware forensics investigation involves discovering and describing the ransomware assault's progress across the network from start to finish. This audit trail of the way a ransomware assault progressed within the network helps you to assess the impact and brings to light weaknesses in policies or work habits that should be corrected to avoid future break-ins. Forensic analysis is typically assigned a top priority by the 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 operational continuity are executed in parallel. Progent has an extensive team of IT and data security professionals with the knowledge and experience required to perform activities for containment, operational continuity, and data restoration without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics is complicated and requires intimate interaction with the groups responsible for data restoration and, if necessary, settlement negotiation with the ransomware hacker. Ransomware forensics typically require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to detect anomalies.

Activities involved with forensics include:

• Disconnect but avoid shutting off all potentially affected devices from the network. This can involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and setting up 2FA to protect backups.
• Preserve forensically sound images of all suspect devices so the file restoration team can get started
• Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and additional key logs as soon as feasible
• Identify the variety of ransomware used in the attack
• Examine every machine and data store on the system including cloud storage for signs of compromise
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Establish the type of ransomware involved in the assault
• Review log activity and user sessions to establish the timeline of the assault and to spot any potential sideways movement from the originally infected system
• Understand the security gaps used to carry out the ransomware attack
• Search for the creation of executables associated with the first encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze attachments
• Extract URLs from email messages and determine whether they are malicious
• Produce comprehensive attack reporting to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance mandates
• Document recommendations to close security vulnerabilities and enforce workflows that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Expertise in Springfield
To learn more about ways Progent can help your Springfield business with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.