Ransomware Response Services in Santa Rosa

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting Services in Santa Rosa
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can preserve the system state after a ransomware attack and carry out a detailed forensics analysis without disrupting the processes required for operational continuity and data restoration. Your Santa Rosa business can utilize Progent's forensics report to combat subsequent ransomware assaults, validate the recovery of lost data, and comply with insurance and regulatory mandates.

Ransomware forensics involves determining and describing the ransomware attack's progress throughout the targeted network from start to finish. This audit trail of how a ransomware assault progressed within the network helps your IT staff to assess the impact and highlights weaknesses in policies or processes that need to be corrected to prevent later breaches. Forensics is usually assigned a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often required by state and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can take time, it is critical that other important recovery processes like operational resumption are performed concurrently. Progent maintains a large team of IT and data security experts with the knowledge and experience needed to perform activities for containment, operational continuity, and data recovery without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics investigation is time consuming and calls for close cooperation with the groups focused on data restoration and, if necessary, settlement negotiation with the ransomware hacker. Ransomware forensics can require the examination of logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory, DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to look for anomalies.

Services associated with forensics include:

• Disconnect but avoid shutting off all possibly affected devices from the system. This can require 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 your backups.
• Copy forensically complete digital images of all exposed devices so the data recovery group can proceed
• Preserve firewall, VPN, and other key logs as soon as possible
• Determine the strain of ransomware involved in the attack
• Survey each computer and storage device on the network including cloud storage for signs of compromise
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Determine the type of ransomware used in the assault
• Study logs and user sessions in order to determine the timeline of the assault and to spot any possible lateral migration from the first compromised system
• Understand the security gaps exploited to carry out the ransomware assault
• Search for the creation of executables associated with the first encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze attachments
• Separate URLs from email messages and check to see whether they are malicious
• Provide detailed attack reporting to satisfy your insurance and compliance mandates
• Suggest recommended improvements to shore up cybersecurity gaps and enforce processes that reduce the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Services in Santa Rosa
To learn more information about how Progent can assist your Santa Rosa organization with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.