Ransomware Response Consultants in Niterói

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting in Niterói
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without disrupting the processes related to operational resumption and data recovery. Your Niterói business can use Progent's forensics documentation to combat subsequent ransomware attacks, validate the recovery of lost data, and meet insurance and governmental requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation is aimed at determining and describing the ransomware assault's storyline across the targeted network from start to finish. This history of the way a ransomware attack travelled within the network helps your IT staff to assess the impact and highlights weaknesses in security policies or processes that need to be corrected to prevent later break-ins. Forensics is usually assigned a high priority by the cyber insurance provider and is typically required by state and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is essential that other important recovery processes like business continuity are pursued concurrently. Progent maintains a large team of information technology and security professionals with the skills required to carry out the work of containment, business continuity, and data recovery without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics is arduous and calls for intimate cooperation with the groups responsible for file cleanup and, if necessary, payment talks with the ransomware hacker. Ransomware forensics typically involve the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to detect changes.

Services involved with forensics investigation include:

• Isolate without shutting down all potentially affected devices from the network. This can require closing all RDP ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and implementing 2FA to secure your backups.
• Capture forensically valid digital images of all suspect devices so your data restoration team can proceed
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and other key logs as soon as feasible
• Determine the strain of ransomware used in the attack
• Examine each computer and data store on the network including cloud-hosted storage for indications of encryption
• Inventory all compromised devices
• Establish the type of ransomware involved in the attack
• Review log activity and sessions to determine the timeline of the assault and to spot any possible lateral movement from the originally compromised machine
• Identify the security gaps used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Look for new executables associated with the original encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze email attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in email messages and check to see whether they are malware
• Provide detailed attack reporting to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance mandates
• Document recommendations to close security vulnerabilities and improve workflows that lower the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Expertise in Niterói
To find out more about ways Progent can assist your Niterói organization with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.