Ransomware Response Consultants in Birmingham

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting in Birmingham
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without interfering with activity required for operational continuity and data recovery. Your Birmingham business can utilize Progent's forensics report to combat subsequent ransomware attacks, validate the restoration of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and governmental requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation involves tracking and documenting the ransomware attack's storyline throughout the network from start to finish. This audit trail of how a ransomware attack travelled within the network assists your IT staff to assess the damage and highlights gaps in policies or work habits that need to be rectified to avoid future break-ins. Forensics is commonly assigned a top priority by the insurance carrier and is often required by government and industry regulations. Because forensics can take time, it is essential that other key activities such as business continuity are performed concurrently. Progent has an extensive team of IT and cybersecurity professionals with the skills required to carry out the work of containment, operational resumption, and data restoration without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is time consuming and requires intimate cooperation with the teams focused on file restoration and, if needed, settlement talks with the ransomware adversary. Ransomware forensics typically require the examination of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to detect variations.

Services associated with forensics include:

• Disconnect without shutting down all possibly suspect devices from the system. This may require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing 2FA to guard your backups.
• Create forensically valid images of all suspect devices so the file recovery group can get started
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and other key logs as quickly as possible
• Identify the type of ransomware used in the attack
• Inspect every computer and storage device on the system as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Review logs and sessions to determine the time frame of the ransomware assault and to spot any possible sideways migration from the originally compromised machine
• Understand the security gaps exploited to carry out the ransomware assault
• Search for the creation of executables associated with the original encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze attachments
• Separate URLs from messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Produce extensive attack documentation to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
• Document recommended improvements to shore up cybersecurity vulnerabilities and enforce workflows that reduce the risk of a future ransomware exploit

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