Ransomware Response Consulting Experts in Newark

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting in Newark
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware attack and perform a comprehensive forensics analysis without slowing down the processes required for business resumption and data recovery. Your Newark organization can use Progent's forensics documentation to counter future ransomware attacks, assist in the recovery of lost data, and comply with insurance and regulatory mandates.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at discovering and documenting the ransomware assault's progress throughout the targeted network from beginning to end. This audit trail of how a ransomware assault travelled through the network assists your IT staff to assess the impact and highlights vulnerabilities in policies or processes that need to be rectified to prevent future breaches. Forensics is usually assigned a high priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often required by state and industry regulations. Because forensics can be time consuming, it is critical that other important recovery processes like operational continuity are executed in parallel. Progent has an extensive roster of information technology and cybersecurity experts with the skills required to carry out the work of containment, operational continuity, and data restoration without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics investigation is complex and calls for close interaction with the groups responsible for data recovery and, if needed, payment talks with the ransomware adversary. Ransomware forensics can require the examination of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object, AD, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to detect changes.

Activities involved with forensics include:

• Isolate without shutting down all potentially suspect devices from the network. This can involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and setting up two-factor authentication to guard backups.
• Capture forensically complete duplicates of all suspect devices so your data recovery group can get started
• Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and additional key logs as soon as feasible
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Inspect each computer and data store on the system as well as cloud storage for signs of encryption
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Study logs and user sessions to determine the timeline of the attack and to spot any possible lateral migration from the originally infected machine
• Identify the security gaps used to perpetrate the ransomware attack
• Search for new executables surrounding the original encrypted files or system compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze email attachments
• Separate URLs embedded in messages and determine whether they are malware
• Provide detailed incident documentation to meet your insurance and compliance requirements
• Suggest recommended improvements to shore up security vulnerabilities and improve workflows that lower the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Expertise in Newark
To find out more information about how Progent can help your Newark organization with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.