Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Sydney

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting Services in Sydney
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a detailed forensics investigation without slowing down the processes required for business resumption and data restoration. Your Sydney business can utilize Progent's forensics documentation to combat subsequent ransomware assaults, validate the restoration of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis involves determining and describing the ransomware assault's progress throughout the network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware assault progressed within the network assists you to assess the damage and brings to light gaps in security policies or processes that should be corrected to avoid future breaches. Forensic analysis is usually assigned a high priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often mandated by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can take time, it is critical that other important recovery processes like business resumption are executed concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive team of IT and data security experts with the knowledge and experience required to perform the work of containment, operational resumption, and data restoration without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is time consuming and requires close interaction with the teams focused on data cleanup and, if necessary, payment discussions with the ransomware Threat Actor. forensics can require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to detect variations.

Services involved with forensics analysis include:

• Disconnect without shutting off all potentially impacted devices from the system. This may involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up 2FA to protect your backups.
• Capture forensically complete duplicates of all exposed devices so the data recovery group can proceed
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and other critical logs as quickly as possible
• Identify the type of ransomware used in the assault
• Survey each machine and storage device on the system including cloud storage for indications of compromise
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Determine the type of ransomware used in the assault
• Study logs and user sessions in order to establish the time frame of the attack and to identify any potential sideways movement from the first infected machine
• Identify the security gaps exploited to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Look for new executables associated with the first encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine attachments
• Extract URLs from messages and check to see if they are malicious
• Produce comprehensive attack documentation to meet your insurance carrier and compliance mandates
• Document recommendations to close security gaps and enforce workflows that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Expertise in Sydney
To learn more about how Progent can help your Sydney business with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.