Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Dallas

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting Services in Dallas
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a detailed forensics investigation without impeding the processes related to business continuity and data recovery. Your Dallas business can use Progent's ransomware forensics documentation to block future ransomware attacks, validate the recovery of lost data, and comply with insurance carrier and governmental mandates.

Ransomware forensics investigation is aimed at tracking and documenting the ransomware assault's progress throughout the targeted network from start to finish. This history of how a ransomware assault progressed within the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the damage and highlights shortcomings in rules or processes that need to be corrected to avoid future break-ins. Forensic analysis is commonly assigned a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically required by government and industry regulations. Since forensics can take time, it is critical that other key recovery processes like business resumption are pursued concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive team of IT and data security professionals with the skills required to perform activities for containment, operational resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics is time consuming and requires intimate interaction with the groups focused on file cleanup and, if necessary, payment discussions with the ransomware Threat Actor. forensics typically require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to detect variations.

Activities associated with forensics include:

• Isolate but avoid shutting down all possibly impacted devices from the system. This can require closing all RDP ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and implementing two-factor authentication to protect backups.
• Capture forensically valid images of all exposed devices so your data restoration team can get started
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and other critical logs as soon as possible
• Establish the strain of ransomware used in the assault
• Survey each computer and storage device on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for signs of encryption
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Determine the type of ransomware used in the attack
• Study logs and user sessions to establish the timeline of the assault and to identify any possible lateral migration from the first compromised machine
• Understand the security gaps exploited to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Search for new executables surrounding the original encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze attachments
• Separate any URLs embedded in messages and check to see if they are malware
• Produce detailed incident reporting to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance mandates
• Suggest recommendations to close cybersecurity vulnerabilities and enforce workflows that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Services in Dallas
To learn more information about how Progent can help your Dallas organization with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.