Ransomware Response Consultants in Webster

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting in Webster
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a detailed forensics analysis without impeding activity required for operational resumption and data recovery. Your Webster business can use Progent's forensics documentation to counter future ransomware assaults, validate the cleanup of lost data, and comply with insurance carrier and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at discovering and documenting the ransomware assault's progress across the network from beginning to end. This audit trail of how a ransomware assault progressed within the network helps your IT staff to assess the damage and brings to light shortcomings in policies or processes that should be rectified to prevent later breaches. Forensics is usually given a high priority by the insurance carrier and is typically required by state and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is vital that other important activities such as operational resumption are performed concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive team of information technology and data security experts with the skills required to perform the work of containment, operational continuity, and data recovery without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics investigation is complicated and requires close cooperation with the teams responsible for file recovery and, if necessary, payment discussions with the ransomware attacker. forensics can require the examination of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to check for changes.

Activities involved with forensics include:

• Detach without shutting down all potentially affected devices from the system. This may involve closing all RDP ports and Internet facing NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring two-factor authentication to secure backups.
• Preserve forensically sound duplicates of all suspect devices so the data recovery group can proceed
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional key logs as quickly as feasible
• Identify the version of ransomware used in the assault
• Inspect each machine and storage device on the system as well as cloud-hosted storage for signs of compromise
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Review log activity and sessions to determine the time frame of the ransomware assault and to spot any possible sideways migration from the originally compromised machine
• Understand the security gaps exploited to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Look for new executables surrounding the first encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine attachments
• Extract any URLs embedded in email messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Provide detailed attack reporting to meet your insurance carrier and compliance mandates
• List recommendations to close security gaps and improve processes that lower the risk of a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Services in Webster
To learn more about ways Progent can assist your Webster organization with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.