Ransomware Response Consultants in Morgan Hill

Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Morgan Hill
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the evidence of a ransomware attack and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without interfering with the processes required for business resumption and data restoration. Your Morgan Hill organization can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics report to block future ransomware assaults, assist in the recovery of lost data, and comply with insurance and regulatory reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at tracking and describing the ransomware assault's storyline throughout the network from beginning to end. This audit trail of how a ransomware attack progressed through the network helps your IT staff to assess the impact and uncovers weaknesses in security policies or work habits that should be rectified to prevent later break-ins. Forensics is usually assigned a high priority by the cyber insurance provider and is often required by government and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can take time, it is essential that other key activities like business resumption are pursued concurrently. Progent has a large team of IT and data security professionals with the knowledge and experience needed to perform the work of containment, operational resumption, and data recovery without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics is complicated and calls for intimate cooperation with the teams responsible for file cleanup and, if necessary, payment negotiation with the ransomware threat actor. forensics typically require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to check for anomalies.

Activities involved with forensics analysis include:

• Detach but avoid shutting off all potentially suspect devices from the network. This can involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring 2FA to guard backups.
• Capture forensically complete images of all suspect devices so your data restoration team can get started
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and other key logs as quickly as possible
• Determine the strain of ransomware used in the assault
• Examine each computer and storage device on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for signs of encryption
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Determine the type of ransomware involved in the assault
• Study logs and user sessions in order to establish the timeline of the ransomware attack and to spot any possible sideways migration from the first infected system
• Identify the security gaps exploited to carry out the ransomware assault
• Look for new executables associated with the original encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine email attachments
• Extract any URLs embedded in messages and determine whether they are malicious
• Provide comprehensive attack documentation to satisfy your insurance and compliance regulations
• List recommendations to shore up cybersecurity vulnerabilities and enforce processes that reduce the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Expertise in Morgan Hill
To learn more about how Progent can help your Morgan Hill business with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.