Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Glendale

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting in Glendale
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware attack and carry out a detailed forensics analysis without interfering with activity required for operational resumption and data restoration. Your Glendale business can use Progent's ransomware forensics documentation to combat subsequent ransomware attacks, assist in the cleanup of encrypted data, and comply with insurance carrier and governmental mandates.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at tracking and documenting the ransomware attack's progress throughout the network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware attack progressed within the network helps you to assess the damage and highlights vulnerabilities in security policies or processes that should be corrected to prevent later break-ins. Forensic analysis is usually given a high priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often required by government and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can take time, it is essential that other key recovery processes such as business resumption are pursued concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive team of IT and cybersecurity experts with the skills required to perform the work of containment, business resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is complicated and requires intimate interaction with the groups focused on data recovery and, if necessary, payment talks with the ransomware attacker. Ransomware forensics typically involve the examination of logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to detect anomalies.

Services involved with forensics investigation include:

• Detach without shutting off all potentially affected devices from the system. This can require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and setting up 2FA to guard your backups.
• Copy forensically complete digital images of all exposed devices so your file recovery group can get started
• Save firewall, VPN, and additional key logs as soon as feasible
• Identify the type of ransomware involved in the assault
• Inspect every computer and storage device on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for signs of encryption
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Study logs and sessions in order to establish the timeline of the ransomware assault and to identify any possible lateral movement from the first infected machine
• Understand the security gaps used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Look for the creation of executables associated with the original encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze attachments
• Extract any URLs embedded in email messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Produce comprehensive attack reporting to satisfy your insurance and compliance mandates
• Suggest recommendations to close security vulnerabilities and improve workflows that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Expertise in Glendale
To learn more information about ways Progent can assist your Glendale organization with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.