Ransomware Response Consultants in San Diego

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting in San Diego
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the system state after a ransomware attack and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without slowing down activity required for business continuity and data recovery. Your San Diego business can use Progent's ransomware forensics documentation to block future ransomware assaults, validate the recovery of lost data, and meet insurance and governmental mandates.

Ransomware forensics analysis involves determining and describing the ransomware assault's progress throughout the network from start to finish. This audit trail of the way a ransomware attack travelled through the network helps your IT staff to evaluate the damage and highlights weaknesses in policies or processes that should be corrected to prevent future break-ins. Forensics is commonly assigned a top priority by the insurance carrier and is typically required by state and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is critical that other key activities like operational resumption are pursued in parallel. Progent has a large roster of information technology and cybersecurity professionals with the skills needed to perform activities for containment, business resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is arduous and requires close cooperation with the groups responsible for data cleanup and, if needed, payment discussions with the ransomware Threat Actor (TA). forensics can require the examination of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to detect variations.

Activities associated with forensics investigation include:

• Detach but avoid shutting off all possibly affected devices from the network. This can involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing two-factor authentication to secure your backups.
• Copy forensically valid digital images of all exposed devices so your data restoration team can get started
• Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and additional key logs as soon as feasible
• Determine the type of ransomware used in the attack
• Inspect every computer and storage device on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for signs of encryption
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Review log activity and user sessions in order to determine the timeline of the attack and to spot any potential lateral migration from the originally infected machine
• Understand the security gaps used to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Search for the creation of executables surrounding the first encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in email messages and determine whether they are malicious
• Provide extensive incident documentation to meet your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
• List recommendations to close cybersecurity gaps and enforce workflows that lower the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Services in San Diego
To learn more information about how Progent can help your San Diego organization with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.