Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Naples
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can capture the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a detailed forensics analysis without disrupting activity related to business continuity and data recovery. Your Naples organization can use Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics documentation to counter subsequent ransomware assaults, validate the cleanup of encrypted data, and comply with insurance carrier and regulatory mandates.
Ransomware forensics investigation involves discovering and documenting the ransomware assault's progress across the network from beginning to end. This audit trail of the way a ransomware attack progressed through the network assists you to assess the damage and uncovers vulnerabilities in security policies or processes that should be rectified to avoid future break-ins. Forensics is usually given a high priority by the insurance carrier and is often required by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is vital that other key activities like operational continuity are performed concurrently. Progent has an extensive roster of IT and cybersecurity professionals with the skills needed to carry out activities for containment, business continuity, and data recovery without disrupting forensic analysis.
Ransomware forensics analysis is complicated and requires intimate cooperation with the teams focused on data recovery and, if needed, payment talks with the ransomware adversary. forensics typically require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to detect changes.
Activities associated with forensics include:
- Detach without shutting off all possibly suspect devices from the network. This may require closing all RDP ports and Internet connected NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and implementing 2FA to secure backups.
- Capture forensically valid digital images of all suspect devices so the file restoration group can get started
- Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and additional critical logs as quickly as possible
- Identify the strain of ransomware used in the assault
- Survey each computer and storage device on the system including cloud storage for signs of encryption
- Catalog all compromised devices
- Establish the type of ransomware used in the attack
- Review log activity and sessions in order to determine the time frame of the assault and to spot any possible sideways migration from the first compromised system
- Understand the attack vectors exploited to carry out the ransomware attack
- Search for the creation of executables associated with the first encrypted files or network breach
- Parse Outlook web archives
- Analyze email attachments
- Separate any URLs embedded in email messages and check to see if they are malware
- Produce extensive incident documentation to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
- Document recommended improvements to close cybersecurity gaps and improve workflows that reduce the risk of a future ransomware breach
Progent's Qualifications
Progent has delivered remote and onsite IT services throughout the U.S. for more than two decades and has been awarded Microsoft's Gold Partner designation in the Datacenter and Cloud Productivity competencies. Progent's team of SMEs includes professionals who have earned advanced certifications in core technologies such as Cisco networking, VMware virtualization, and major distributions of Linux. Progent's cybersecurity experts have earned prestigious certifications including CISA, CISSP-ISSAP, and CRISC. (See certifications earned by Progent consultants). Progent also has guidance in financial management and Enterprise Resource Planning application software. This breadth of expertise gives Progent the ability to salvage and consolidate the undamaged pieces of your IT environment after a ransomware intrusion and reconstruct them rapidly into an operational network. Progent has collaborated with leading cyber insurance providers like Chubb to assist businesses recover from ransomware assaults.
Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Expertise in Naples
To find out more about ways Progent can assist your Naples business with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.