Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Lakeland

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in Lakeland
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware attack and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without slowing down the processes related to business resumption and data restoration. Your Lakeland organization can utilize Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics report to combat future ransomware assaults, validate the cleanup of encrypted data, and comply with insurance and governmental mandates.

Ransomware forensics involves determining and describing the ransomware attack's progress throughout the network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware attack progressed through the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the impact and highlights vulnerabilities in security policies or processes that should be rectified to avoid later breaches. Forensics is typically given a high priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically required by government and industry regulations. Because forensics can be time consuming, it is vital that other key activities such as operational resumption are performed concurrently. Progent has an extensive roster of IT and data security experts with the skills required to carry out activities for containment, operational continuity, and data restoration without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics analysis is complex and requires intimate cooperation with the groups assigned to data recovery and, if necessary, payment negotiation with the ransomware threat actor. Ransomware forensics can involve the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to check for variations.

Services involved with forensics include:

• Detach but avoid shutting off all potentially affected devices from the system. This can require closing all RDP ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring 2FA to protect backups.
• Capture forensically complete digital images of all exposed devices so the data recovery group can proceed
• Save firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as quickly as possible
• Identify the strain of ransomware involved in the attack
• Examine every machine and data store on the network including cloud-hosted storage for signs of compromise
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Determine the type of ransomware used in the attack
• Study logs and user sessions in order to determine the time frame of the attack and to identify any possible lateral migration from the originally infected system
• Understand the security gaps exploited to carry out the ransomware assault
• Search for the creation of executables surrounding the first encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine attachments
• Separate any URLs from messages and check to see whether they are malware
• Provide comprehensive incident reporting to meet your insurance and compliance mandates
• Suggest recommendations to shore up security gaps and enforce processes that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Services in Lakeland
To learn more information about ways Progent can assist your Lakeland business with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.