Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Fort Collins

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting in Fort Collins
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the system state after a ransomware attack and carry out a detailed forensics investigation without interfering with the processes related to business resumption and data recovery. Your Fort Collins business can use Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics documentation to counter future ransomware assaults, assist in the cleanup of lost data, and meet insurance carrier and governmental requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis is aimed at determining and documenting the ransomware attack's progress across the targeted network from start to finish. This audit trail of the way a ransomware assault travelled within the network helps your IT staff to evaluate the impact and uncovers vulnerabilities in policies or processes that need to be rectified to avoid future breaches. Forensic analysis is usually assigned a high priority by the insurance provider and is often mandated by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is vital that other key activities like business resumption are performed concurrently. Progent has an extensive team of information technology and cybersecurity professionals with the skills required to carry out activities for containment, business continuity, and data recovery without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics is arduous and requires intimate cooperation with the teams responsible for data cleanup and, if needed, settlement discussions with the ransomware threat actor. Ransomware forensics typically require the examination of all logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to look for changes.

Services associated with forensics include:

• Disconnect without shutting off all potentially affected devices from the network. This may require closing all RDP ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and configuring two-factor authentication to guard backups.
• Capture forensically complete digital images of all suspect devices so your data recovery team can get started
• Save firewall, VPN, and other key logs as quickly as feasible
• Identify the strain of ransomware involved in the assault
• Survey each machine and data store on the network including cloud storage for signs of encryption
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Review logs and user sessions in order to establish the timeline of the ransomware attack and to spot any potential sideways migration from the originally infected system
• Understand the attack vectors used to carry out the ransomware assault
• Search for new executables surrounding the original encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze attachments
• Separate any URLs embedded in messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Provide extensive incident reporting to meet your insurance and compliance mandates
• Document recommended improvements to close security vulnerabilities and improve workflows that lower the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Services in Fort Collins
To learn more about how Progent can assist your Fort Collins business with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.