Ransomware Response Consulting Services in El Paso

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in El Paso
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the evidence of a ransomware assault and carry out a detailed forensics investigation without impeding the processes related to operational resumption and data restoration. Your El Paso business can utilize Progent's forensics report to counter subsequent ransomware attacks, assist in the recovery of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation is aimed at determining and documenting the ransomware assault's progress throughout the network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware assault progressed through the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the impact and brings to light weaknesses in rules or processes that need to be rectified to avoid later breaches. Forensic analysis is commonly assigned a top priority by the cyber insurance provider and is typically mandated by state and industry regulations. Because forensics can take time, it is vital that other important activities like operational continuity are executed concurrently. Progent maintains a large team of IT and cybersecurity experts with the knowledge and experience needed to carry out the work of containment, operational continuity, and data restoration without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is complicated and calls for intimate interaction with the teams assigned to data cleanup and, if needed, payment negotiation with the ransomware Threat Actor. forensics can require the review of logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to look for changes.

Activities associated with forensics include:

• Detach without shutting off all possibly impacted devices from the network. This may require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and implementing 2FA to secure your backups.
• Create forensically complete duplicates of all exposed devices so the data restoration group can get started
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as quickly as possible
• Identify the version of ransomware used in the attack
• Examine each machine and storage device on the system as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Review log activity and user sessions to establish the time frame of the ransomware attack and to spot any possible lateral movement from the first compromised system
• Understand the attack vectors used to carry out the ransomware attack
• Look for new executables surrounding the original encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze attachments
• Separate URLs embedded in messages and determine if they are malware
• Produce extensive incident documentation to meet your insurance and compliance mandates
• List recommendations to shore up cybersecurity gaps and enforce processes that lower the risk of a future ransomware exploit

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