Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Irvine

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in Irvine
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the system state after a ransomware assault and carry out a detailed forensics investigation without impeding the processes related to business continuity and data recovery. Your Irvine organization can use Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics report to block future ransomware assaults, validate the restoration of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation involves determining and describing the ransomware assault's storyline across the targeted network from start to finish. This history of the way a ransomware attack travelled within the network helps your IT staff to evaluate the impact and brings to light weaknesses in security policies or work habits that should be rectified to avoid later breaches. Forensics is typically given a high priority by the insurance carrier and is often required by government and industry regulations. Since forensics can take time, it is critical that other important recovery processes such as operational continuity are performed in parallel. Progent has a large team of information technology and security experts with the knowledge and experience required to perform the work of containment, business resumption, and data recovery without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is complex and calls for close interaction with the groups responsible for data restoration and, if needed, settlement discussions with the ransomware Threat Actor (TA). forensics typically involve the examination of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object, AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to check for changes.

Services associated with forensics investigation include:

• Isolate without shutting off all potentially suspect devices from the network. This may require closing all RDP ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and setting up two-factor authentication to secure backups.
• Preserve forensically sound images of all exposed devices so the data recovery group can get started
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and other critical logs as quickly as possible
• Identify the strain of ransomware used in the assault
• Survey every machine and storage device on the network including cloud-hosted storage for signs of encryption
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Study logs and user sessions in order to determine the timeline of the attack and to identify any possible lateral movement from the first infected system
• Understand the security gaps used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Search for new executables surrounding the first encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze email attachments
• Extract any URLs embedded in email messages and check to see if they are malicious
• Provide detailed attack documentation to meet your insurance and compliance mandates
• Document recommended improvements to close security gaps and improve workflows that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Services in Irvine
To learn more about ways Progent can help your Irvine business with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.