Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting Services in Rockville
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without impeding the processes required for operational continuity and data restoration. Your Rockville business can use Progent's forensics documentation to combat future ransomware attacks, assist in the recovery of lost data, and comply with insurance carrier and regulatory mandates.
Ransomware forensics analysis involves determining and describing the ransomware attack's storyline across the targeted network from start to finish. This audit trail of the way a ransomware attack progressed through the network assists you to evaluate the damage and highlights gaps in policies or work habits that need to be corrected to prevent later breaches. Forensics is typically assigned a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often required by state and industry regulations. Because forensics can be time consuming, it is essential that other key recovery processes like business continuity are executed concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive team of information technology and cybersecurity experts with the skills needed to perform activities for containment, operational resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensic analysis.
Ransomware forensics analysis is complex and requires close interaction with the groups assigned to data cleanup and, if needed, payment talks with the ransomware hacker. Ransomware forensics typically involve the review of all logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to check for anomalies.
Services associated with forensics include:
- Isolate but avoid shutting down all possibly suspect devices from the network. This can require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up two-factor authentication to protect your backups.
- Capture forensically complete images of all suspect devices so the data recovery group can get started
- Preserve firewall, VPN, and other critical logs as quickly as feasible
- Establish the version of ransomware involved in the attack
- Inspect every machine and data store on the network including cloud-hosted storage for indications of encryption
- Inventory all compromised devices
- Establish the type of ransomware used in the assault
- Study logs and user sessions in order to establish the timeline of the ransomware attack and to spot any potential sideways movement from the originally infected system
- Identify the security gaps used to carry out the ransomware attack
- Search for the creation of executables surrounding the first encrypted files or system compromise
- Parse Outlook web archives
- Examine attachments
- Extract any URLs embedded in messages and determine if they are malware
- Provide extensive attack documentation to meet your insurance and compliance requirements
- Suggest recommended improvements to close security gaps and improve processes that lower the risk of a future ransomware exploit
Progent's Qualifications
Progent has provided online and on-premises IT services across the United States for more than 20 years and has been awarded Microsoft's Gold Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's team of subject matter experts includes consultants who have earned advanced certifications in foundation technologies such as Cisco infrastructure, VMware virtualization, and major distributions of Linux. Progent's cybersecurity consultants have earned internationally recognized certifications such as CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, and GIAC. (See Progent's certifications). Progent also offers top-tier support in financial management and ERP software. This breadth of expertise gives Progent the ability to salvage and consolidate the surviving pieces of your IT environment after a ransomware intrusion and rebuild them quickly into a viable system. Progent has worked with top insurance providers including Chubb to assist organizations clean up after ransomware attacks.
Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Expertise in Rockville
To find out more information about how Progent can help your Rockville organization with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.