Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Rio de Janeiro

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Rio de Janeiro
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the system state after a ransomware attack and carry out a comprehensive forensics investigation without impeding activity required for operational continuity and data recovery. Your Rio de Janeiro business can use Progent's ransomware forensics documentation to block future ransomware attacks, assist in the restoration of lost data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics involves discovering and documenting the ransomware attack's storyline across the network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware attack travelled through the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the damage and highlights weaknesses in policies or processes that should be rectified to avoid later break-ins. Forensics is usually assigned a top priority by the insurance carrier and is typically mandated by state and industry regulations. Because forensics can be time consuming, it is essential that other key recovery processes such as operational continuity are pursued in parallel. Progent has an extensive roster of IT and security experts with the knowledge and experience needed to perform the work of containment, operational resumption, and data recovery without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is arduous and calls for intimate interaction with the teams responsible for data cleanup and, if necessary, payment talks with the ransomware adversary. forensics typically require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to detect variations.

Activities associated with forensics analysis include:

• Disconnect but avoid shutting off all possibly suspect devices from the network. This may involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up 2FA to guard backups.
• Copy forensically complete images of all exposed devices so your file restoration team can proceed
• Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and other key logs as soon as possible
• Establish the version of ransomware used in the attack
• Survey each computer and storage device on the system including cloud storage for indications of encryption
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Review logs and sessions in order to determine the timeline of the attack and to identify any potential lateral migration from the first infected machine
• Understand the attack vectors used to carry out the ransomware attack
• Search for the creation of executables surrounding the first encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze email attachments
• Separate URLs from email messages and check to see if they are malware
• Produce extensive incident reporting to satisfy your insurance and compliance mandates
• Suggest recommendations to shore up cybersecurity vulnerabilities and enforce workflows that reduce the risk of a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Expertise in Rio de Janeiro
To find out more about how Progent can help your Rio de Janeiro business with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.