Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Edmonton

Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Edmonton
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the evidence of a ransomware assault and perform a detailed forensics analysis without interfering with activity required for business resumption and data recovery. Your Edmonton business can use Progent's post-attack forensics report to block subsequent ransomware assaults, validate the recovery of lost data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis involves tracking and documenting the ransomware assault's storyline throughout the network from start to finish. This audit trail of the way a ransomware assault progressed through the network assists your IT staff to assess the impact and highlights weaknesses in policies or processes that need to be rectified to avoid future breaches. Forensics is usually assigned a high priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically required by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can be time consuming, it is critical that other key recovery processes like business continuity are executed in parallel. Progent has an extensive team of information technology and security experts with the skills required to carry out the work of containment, operational resumption, and data restoration without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is arduous and calls for close cooperation with the teams focused on file cleanup and, if needed, settlement negotiation with the ransomware attacker. forensics can involve the review of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object, AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to detect anomalies.

Services involved with forensics investigation include:

• Isolate without shutting off all possibly suspect devices from the network. This may require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and configuring 2FA to protect your backups.
• Create forensically valid digital images of all suspect devices so the data restoration team can get started
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and additional critical logs as soon as possible
• Determine the variety of ransomware involved in the assault
• Survey every computer and storage device on the network as well as cloud storage for indications of compromise
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Study log activity and user sessions to establish the timeline of the ransomware attack and to identify any potential sideways movement from the originally infected machine
• Understand the attack vectors exploited to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Search for the creation of executables associated with the first encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze attachments
• Extract URLs from email messages and determine if they are malware
• Produce comprehensive attack documentation to satisfy your insurance and compliance mandates
• Suggest recommended improvements to shore up cybersecurity vulnerabilities and enforce workflows that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

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