Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Hayward

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting Services in Hayward
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can capture the evidence of a ransomware assault and carry out a detailed forensics investigation without impeding activity related to business resumption and data restoration. Your Hayward business can use Progent's ransomware forensics documentation to counter future ransomware attacks, assist in the cleanup of lost data, and meet insurance carrier and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics involves tracking and documenting the ransomware attack's storyline across the network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware attack travelled within the network helps you to evaluate the impact and brings to light gaps in security policies or work habits that should be corrected to avoid later breaches. Forensic analysis is usually given a high priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is typically required by government and industry regulations. Since forensics can be time consuming, it is vital that other key activities like operational continuity are performed in parallel. Progent has an extensive team of information technology and cybersecurity professionals with the skills required to carry out activities for containment, business resumption, and data recovery without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is complicated and calls for intimate interaction with the groups assigned to data cleanup and, if needed, payment negotiation with the ransomware attacker. Ransomware forensics can require the review of logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory (AD), DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to detect variations.

Activities involved with forensics include:

• Disconnect without shutting down all potentially affected devices from the system. This can require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and setting up two-factor authentication to secure your backups.
• Capture forensically valid images of all exposed devices so the file restoration team can get started
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and other critical logs as quickly as possible
• Identify the version of ransomware used in the attack
• Inspect each machine and data store on the network including cloud storage for indications of compromise
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware involved in the attack
• Review log activity and sessions to establish the timeline of the assault and to identify any potential lateral movement from the originally infected machine
• Understand the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Look for new executables associated with the first encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in email messages and check to see if they are malware
• Produce comprehensive incident documentation to meet your insurance carrier and compliance mandates
• Suggest recommendations to close security gaps and improve processes that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Expertise in Hayward
To learn more information about ways Progent can help your Hayward business with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.