Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Lima

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting in Lima
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without disrupting the processes required for business resumption and data recovery. Your Lima organization can utilize Progent's forensics report to counter subsequent ransomware attacks, validate the recovery of lost data, and comply with insurance and regulatory requirements.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at discovering and documenting the ransomware attack's storyline throughout the network from start to finish. This audit trail of the way a ransomware attack travelled within the network assists your IT staff to assess the impact and highlights shortcomings in policies or work habits that should be corrected to avoid later breaches. Forensics is usually given a top priority by the cyber insurance provider and is often required by state and industry regulations. Because forensics can be time consuming, it is vital that other important activities such as operational continuity are performed in parallel. Progent maintains an extensive team of IT and security professionals with the skills required to perform the work of containment, business resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is complex and calls for intimate interaction with the teams responsible for file restoration and, if necessary, payment talks with the ransomware hacker. Ransomware forensics can involve the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to check for anomalies.

Activities involved with forensics investigation include:

• Disconnect without shutting down all potentially affected devices from the system. This can require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing two-factor authentication to protect your backups.
• Create forensically valid duplicates of all suspect devices so your data restoration group can proceed
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and other key logs as soon as possible
• Establish the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Survey each machine and storage device on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for signs of compromise
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Review log activity and user sessions in order to establish the time frame of the assault and to identify any possible lateral migration from the originally compromised machine
• Understand the attack vectors exploited to carry out the ransomware assault
• Look for new executables associated with the original encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine email attachments
• Extract any URLs from email messages and determine if they are malware
• Produce detailed incident reporting to meet your insurance and compliance mandates
• Document recommendations to shore up security gaps and enforce processes that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

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