Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Kansas City

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting Services in Kansas City
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the evidence of a ransomware attack and perform a detailed forensics analysis without interfering with activity related to business resumption and data recovery. Your Kansas City organization can utilize Progent's ransomware forensics report to counter future ransomware assaults, assist in the restoration of lost data, and meet insurance and regulatory requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at determining and describing the ransomware assault's storyline across the network from beginning to end. This history of the way a ransomware assault progressed within the network helps you to assess the damage and brings to light gaps in security policies or work habits that should be corrected to avoid future breaches. Forensic analysis is commonly given a high priority by the insurance provider and is typically required by government and industry regulations. Since forensics can take time, it is critical that other important activities such as operational resumption are pursued in parallel. Progent maintains an extensive roster of IT and security professionals with the skills needed to perform activities for containment, business resumption, and data recovery without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics investigation is time consuming and requires intimate interaction with the teams assigned to data cleanup and, if needed, settlement talks with the ransomware Threat Actor (TA). forensics can involve the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to look for changes.

Activities involved with forensics analysis include:

• Isolate but avoid shutting down all possibly impacted devices from the system. This can require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and setting up 2FA to secure backups.
• Capture forensically valid images of all exposed devices so the data restoration group can proceed
• Save firewall, VPN, and other key logs as soon as possible
• Establish the type of ransomware involved in the assault
• Survey every computer and storage device on the network including cloud storage for signs of compromise
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Establish the type of ransomware involved in the assault
• Study logs and user sessions to determine the time frame of the attack and to spot any potential lateral migration from the first infected machine
• Identify the security gaps exploited to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Search for new executables associated with the original encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze attachments
• Separate any URLs embedded in messages and determine whether they are malicious
• Provide comprehensive incident documentation to satisfy your insurance and compliance mandates
• Suggest recommendations to close cybersecurity gaps and improve workflows that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware breach

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