Ransomware Response Services in Hayward

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in Hayward
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can capture the system state after a ransomware attack and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without interfering with the processes related to operational resumption and data restoration. Your Hayward organization can utilize Progent's forensics report to counter future ransomware attacks, validate the restoration of lost data, and comply with insurance and governmental requirements.

Ransomware forensics involves discovering and describing the ransomware assault's storyline throughout the targeted network from beginning to end. This audit trail of how a ransomware attack progressed through the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the damage and uncovers shortcomings in security policies or work habits that need to be corrected to avoid later break-ins. Forensic analysis is commonly assigned a top priority by the cyber insurance provider and is often mandated by state and industry regulations. Because forensics can be time consuming, it is essential that other key recovery processes like operational resumption are executed concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive team of information technology and data security experts with the skills required to perform the work of containment, business continuity, and data restoration without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics investigation is complex and calls for intimate interaction with the groups responsible for file cleanup and, if needed, settlement talks with the ransomware attacker. forensics typically require the examination of all logs, registry, GPO, AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to detect variations.

Activities involved with forensics analysis include:

• Isolate but avoid shutting off all possibly affected devices from the network. This may require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing two-factor authentication to guard backups.
• Copy forensically valid digital images of all suspect devices so your data recovery group can proceed
• Save firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as soon as feasible
• Identify the type of ransomware used in the attack
• Examine each machine and storage device on the system including cloud-hosted storage for signs of encryption
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Study log activity and sessions in order to establish the time frame of the ransomware attack and to identify any possible lateral migration from the first infected machine
• Understand the security gaps used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Look for new executables surrounding the first encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine email attachments
• Extract any URLs embedded in messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Produce extensive incident reporting to meet your insurance and compliance regulations
• List recommendations to close security vulnerabilities and improve workflows that reduce the risk of a future ransomware breach

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