Ransomware Response Consultants in Winston-Salem

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Winston-Salem
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can save the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a detailed forensics investigation without interfering with the processes required for business continuity and data recovery. Your Winston-Salem organization can utilize Progent's forensics report to combat future ransomware assaults, validate the cleanup of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and governmental mandates.

Ransomware forensics investigation involves discovering and documenting the ransomware attack's storyline throughout the targeted network from beginning to end. This history of the way a ransomware attack progressed through the network assists you to assess the impact and highlights shortcomings in policies or work habits that should be corrected to prevent future breaches. Forensics is commonly given a high priority by the cyber insurance provider and is typically required by government and industry regulations. Because forensics can take time, it is critical that other important activities such as business continuity are executed concurrently. Progent has an extensive team of information technology and cybersecurity experts with the knowledge and experience required to carry out the work of containment, operational resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics is complicated and requires close interaction with the teams assigned to data cleanup and, if necessary, payment talks with the ransomware Threat Actor (TA). forensics can involve the review of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to check for anomalies.

Activities involved with forensics analysis include:

• Detach but avoid shutting off all possibly affected devices from the network. This may involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing two-factor authentication to protect your backups.
• Preserve forensically valid duplicates of all suspect devices so the data recovery group can proceed
• Save firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as quickly as possible
• Identify the version of ransomware involved in the attack
• Survey each machine and data store 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
• Study log activity and sessions in order to establish the time frame of the ransomware assault and to spot any potential lateral migration from the first compromised machine
• Understand the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Search for the creation of executables surrounding the original encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze email attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in email messages and check to see whether they are malware
• Provide extensive incident documentation to meet your insurance and compliance regulations
• List recommended improvements to close cybersecurity vulnerabilities and improve processes that lower the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

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