Ransomware Response Consultants in Augusta-Richmond County

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Augusta-Richmond County
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can capture the evidence of a ransomware assault and carry out a comprehensive forensics investigation without impeding activity required for operational resumption and data recovery. Your Augusta-Richmond County organization can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics documentation to block future ransomware assaults, assist in the restoration of lost data, and comply with insurance and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at discovering and documenting the ransomware attack's progress across the network from start to finish. This history of how a ransomware attack travelled through the network assists your IT staff to assess the damage and uncovers vulnerabilities in rules or work habits that should be corrected to prevent later break-ins. Forensics is commonly assigned a high priority by the cyber insurance provider and is typically mandated by state and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can take time, it is essential that other important recovery processes like operational resumption are pursued in parallel. Progent has a large roster of IT and cybersecurity experts with the knowledge and experience required to carry out the work of containment, business resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics investigation is time consuming and calls for intimate cooperation with the teams responsible for data restoration and, if necessary, settlement negotiation with the ransomware Threat Actor. forensics can require the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to detect variations.

Activities involved with forensics analysis include:

• Isolate without shutting off all possibly impacted devices from the network. This may require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing two-factor authentication to guard your backups.
• Create forensically sound duplicates of all suspect devices so your file restoration team can get started
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and other critical logs as quickly as possible
• Establish the variety of ransomware involved in the attack
• Inspect each machine and storage device on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for signs of compromise
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Study logs and user sessions in order to determine the timeline of the ransomware attack and to spot any possible lateral migration from the first compromised system
• Identify the attack vectors exploited to carry out the ransomware attack
• Search for the creation of executables associated with the original encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze email attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in email messages and determine if they are malicious
• Provide extensive incident reporting to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
• List recommendations to shore up security gaps and improve processes that lower the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Expertise in Augusta-Richmond County
To learn more information about how Progent can assist your Augusta-Richmond County business with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.