Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Edmonton

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting in Edmonton
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without impeding activity required for business resumption and data restoration. Your Edmonton business can utilize Progent's ransomware forensics documentation to counter subsequent ransomware assaults, assist in the restoration of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at discovering and describing the ransomware attack's storyline across 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 impact and uncovers gaps in rules or processes that need to be rectified to avoid future breaches. Forensic analysis is commonly given a top priority by the insurance provider and is typically mandated by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can take time, it is vital that other key recovery processes such as business resumption are performed in parallel. Progent has a large roster of information technology and cybersecurity professionals with the skills needed to carry out the work of containment, operational resumption, and data restoration without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics analysis is complex and calls for intimate interaction with the teams responsible for data recovery and, if necessary, payment discussions with the ransomware Threat Actor. Ransomware forensics typically require the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to check for variations.

Activities involved with forensics include:

• Isolate without shutting down all potentially impacted devices from the network. This can require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring 2FA to secure your backups.
• Copy forensically valid images of all suspect devices so the file recovery group can proceed
• Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and other critical logs as quickly as possible
• Identify the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Examine every machine and data store on the system including cloud-hosted storage for indications of encryption
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Establish the type of ransomware involved in the attack
• Review log activity and user sessions to establish the timeline of the assault and to spot any possible lateral migration from the originally compromised machine
• Understand the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Search for new executables surrounding the first encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze attachments
• Separate URLs from messages and check to see if they are malware
• Produce extensive incident reporting to meet your insurance and compliance regulations
• List recommended improvements to shore up security vulnerabilities and improve processes that lower the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Services in Edmonton
To find out more about ways Progent can assist your Edmonton organization with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.