Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Bellevue

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting Services in Bellevue
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without impeding activity related to business continuity and data recovery. Your Bellevue organization can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics report to combat future ransomware attacks, validate the cleanup of encrypted data, and meet insurance and governmental mandates.

Ransomware forensics investigation involves determining and describing the ransomware attack's storyline across the network from start to finish. This history of the way a ransomware assault travelled through the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the damage and uncovers shortcomings in policies or work habits that need to be corrected to avoid future breaches. Forensic analysis is commonly assigned a top priority by the insurance carrier and is often mandated by government and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is essential that other important recovery processes such as business continuity are pursued in parallel. Progent maintains an extensive team of information technology and security experts with the knowledge and experience required to carry out activities for containment, operational continuity, and data recovery without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is complex and requires intimate cooperation with the groups responsible for file restoration and, if needed, settlement talks with the ransomware adversary. Ransomware forensics typically involve the examination of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object, AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to detect anomalies.

Activities associated with forensics include:

• Isolate but avoid shutting down all potentially impacted 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 configuring two-factor authentication to secure backups.
• Create forensically complete images of all exposed devices so the data recovery team can get started
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as quickly as feasible
• Identify the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Inspect each machine and data store on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for signs of encryption
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Establish the type of ransomware used in the assault
• Review logs and sessions to determine the timeline of the attack and to identify any potential lateral migration from the originally infected system
• Understand the security gaps exploited to carry out the ransomware assault
• Search for the creation of executables surrounding the first encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze email attachments
• Extract any URLs from email messages and determine whether they are malicious
• Provide detailed incident reporting to satisfy your insurance and compliance regulations
• Suggest recommendations to close security gaps and improve processes that reduce the risk of a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Services in Bellevue
To learn more information about ways Progent can help your Bellevue organization with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.