Ransomware Response Services in Dallas

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting in Dallas
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can capture the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without slowing down the processes related to operational continuity and data recovery. Your Dallas business can use Progent's forensics report to block future ransomware assaults, validate the cleanup of encrypted data, and meet insurance and governmental mandates.

Ransomware forensics involves tracking and describing the ransomware assault's progress across the network from start to finish. This audit trail of how a ransomware attack travelled through the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the damage and uncovers gaps in policies or work habits that should be corrected to avoid future breaches. Forensic analysis is commonly given a top priority by the insurance carrier and is often mandated by government and industry regulations. Because forensics can be time consuming, it is essential that other key activities such as operational resumption are executed concurrently. Progent has a large roster of information technology and data security professionals with the skills needed to perform the work of containment, operational continuity, and data recovery without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics is time consuming and requires intimate cooperation with the groups assigned to data cleanup and, if necessary, settlement talks with the ransomware hacker. Ransomware forensics typically require the review of all logs, registry, GPO, AD, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to check for anomalies.

Activities associated with forensics analysis include:

• Disconnect without shutting off all possibly affected devices from the network. This can involve closing all RDP ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and implementing two-factor authentication to guard your backups.
• Preserve forensically sound images of all exposed devices so the data recovery group can proceed
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and other critical logs as quickly as possible
• Establish the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Inspect every computer and storage device on the system including cloud storage for indications of compromise
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Review log activity and sessions to establish the timeline of the attack and to identify any possible lateral migration from the originally infected system
• Identify the attack vectors exploited to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Search for new executables surrounding the original encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine email attachments
• Extract any URLs from email messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Provide detailed attack documentation to satisfy your insurance and compliance mandates
• Suggest recommendations to close cybersecurity vulnerabilities and enforce processes that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware breach

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