Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Edmonton

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting Services in Edmonton
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a detailed forensics investigation without slowing down the processes related to operational resumption and data restoration. Your Edmonton organization can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics documentation to block future ransomware assaults, validate the restoration of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and governmental requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis involves determining and documenting the ransomware assault's progress throughout the targeted network from start to finish. This history of the way a ransomware assault progressed through the network assists you to assess the impact and brings to light vulnerabilities in policies or processes that should be corrected to prevent later break-ins. Forensic analysis is usually given a high priority by the insurance provider and is often mandated by government and industry regulations. Since forensics can take time, it is vital that other important activities like business resumption are executed in parallel. Progent has a large team of information technology and security professionals with the skills needed to carry out the work of containment, business resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics is complicated and calls for close interaction with the teams focused on data cleanup and, if needed, payment discussions with the ransomware hacker. forensics typically require the review of logs, registry, GPO, AD, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to look for changes.

Activities associated with forensics analysis include:

• Disconnect without shutting off all possibly suspect devices from the network. This may involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up 2FA to protect backups.
• Capture forensically valid images of all suspect devices so your data restoration group can get started
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and additional critical logs as quickly as feasible
• Identify the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Survey each machine and data store on the system as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Establish the type of ransomware involved in the assault
• Study log activity and user sessions to determine the timeline of the assault and to identify any potential lateral migration from the originally compromised system
• Identify the attack vectors exploited to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Look for new executables surrounding the first encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine email attachments
• Extract any URLs embedded in email messages and determine whether they are malware
• Provide extensive attack documentation to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
• List recommendations to close security vulnerabilities and improve processes that lower the risk of a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Expertise in Edmonton
To find out more information about ways Progent can help your Edmonton business with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.