Ransomware Response Consulting Services in The Woodlands

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting in The Woodlands
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the system state after a ransomware assault and carry out a comprehensive forensics analysis without slowing down the processes required for business resumption and data restoration. Your The Woodlands organization can utilize Progent's ransomware forensics documentation to counter future ransomware attacks, validate the restoration of lost data, and comply with insurance and regulatory requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis involves determining and documenting the ransomware attack's storyline across the network from beginning to end. This audit trail of the way a ransomware attack progressed through the network helps your IT staff to evaluate the damage and uncovers gaps in policies or processes that should be corrected to avoid future break-ins. Forensics is usually assigned a high priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically mandated by state and industry regulations. Since forensics can take time, it is essential that other important recovery processes such as operational resumption are performed in parallel. Progent has a large team of IT and cybersecurity experts with the skills needed to carry out the work of containment, business resumption, and data restoration without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is arduous and calls for intimate interaction with the teams assigned to data recovery and, if necessary, settlement discussions with the ransomware Threat Actor (TA). forensics typically involve the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to look for variations.

Services involved with forensics include:

• Detach without shutting down all possibly affected devices from the system. This may involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and implementing 2FA to protect your backups.
• Create forensically sound duplicates of all suspect devices so your file restoration group can proceed
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and additional critical logs as quickly as feasible
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Inspect every computer and data store on the system as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Study logs and sessions to establish the timeline of the ransomware attack and to identify any possible sideways movement from the first infected machine
• Understand the security gaps used to carry out the ransomware attack
• Look for new executables surrounding the original encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine attachments
• Extract URLs from email messages and determine whether they are malware
• Produce detailed incident reporting to meet your insurance and compliance mandates
• List recommended improvements to shore up security gaps and improve workflows that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Expertise in The Woodlands
To learn more about ways Progent can help your The Woodlands organization with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.