Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in Phoenix
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without interfering with the processes required for operational continuity and data recovery. Your Phoenix business can utilize Progent's ransomware forensics documentation to combat subsequent ransomware assaults, validate the recovery of encrypted data, and meet insurance and regulatory mandates.
Ransomware forensics investigation is aimed at discovering and describing the ransomware attack's storyline across the network from beginning to end. This audit trail of the way a ransomware assault travelled within the network helps your IT staff to assess the impact and highlights weaknesses in rules or work habits that need to be rectified to prevent future breaches. Forensics is usually assigned a high priority by the insurance carrier and is typically mandated by state and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is critical that other key activities such as business resumption are performed in parallel. Progent maintains an extensive team of information technology and data security experts with the knowledge and experience needed to carry out the work of containment, business resumption, and data recovery without disrupting forensic analysis.
Ransomware forensics is arduous and requires intimate interaction with the groups assigned to data cleanup and, if necessary, settlement talks with the ransomware adversary. Ransomware forensics can involve the review of logs, registry, GPO, AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to check for changes.
Services involved with forensics analysis include:
- Isolate without shutting down all possibly impacted devices from the network. This can involve closing all RDP ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and configuring two-factor authentication to secure backups.
- Create forensically sound duplicates of all suspect devices so the data restoration team can get started
- Save firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as soon as possible
- Establish the strain of ransomware used in the attack
- Survey each computer and storage device on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
- Catalog all encrypted devices
- Determine the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
- Study log activity and user sessions in order to determine the timeline of the assault and to identify any possible lateral migration from the originally compromised system
- Understand the attack vectors exploited to perpetrate the ransomware attack
- Search for the creation of executables surrounding the first encrypted files or system breach
- Parse Outlook web archives
- Analyze email attachments
- Separate URLs embedded in email messages and determine if they are malware
- Provide detailed attack documentation to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance regulations
- Document recommendations to shore up security vulnerabilities and improve workflows that reduce the risk of a future ransomware breach
Progent's Background
Progent has provided remote and onsite IT services throughout the United States for more than 20 years and has earned Microsoft's Gold Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity practice areas. Progent's roster of subject matter experts (SMEs) includes professionals who have been awarded advanced certifications in foundation technology platforms including Cisco infrastructure, VMware, and major Linux distros. Progent's cybersecurity consultants have earned internationally recognized certifications such as CISA, CISSP, and CRISC. (Refer to Progent's certifications). Progent also offers top-tier support in financial and ERP software. This broad array of skills allows Progent to identify and integrate the surviving parts of your information system following a ransomware intrusion and rebuild them rapidly into an operational network. Progent has collaborated with leading cyber insurance providers like Chubb to help businesses recover from ransomware attacks.
Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Expertise in Phoenix
To learn more about ways Progent can help your Phoenix business with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.