Ransomware Response Services in Riverside

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting in Riverside
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the system state after a ransomware assault and perform a detailed forensics analysis without impeding the processes required for operational continuity and data recovery. Your Riverside business can use Progent's ransomware forensics report to counter subsequent ransomware attacks, validate the restoration of lost data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory mandates.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at determining and describing the ransomware assault's progress throughout the network from beginning to end. This audit trail of how a ransomware attack progressed through the network helps your IT staff to evaluate the damage and highlights shortcomings in rules or work habits that need to be rectified to avoid later breaches. Forensic analysis is commonly given a top priority by the insurance carrier and is often mandated by state and industry regulations. Because forensics can be time consuming, it is essential that other key recovery processes like business resumption are performed concurrently. Progent maintains a large roster of IT and security experts with the skills needed to carry out activities for containment, business resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is complicated and calls for intimate cooperation with the groups assigned to data cleanup and, if necessary, payment negotiation with the ransomware hacker. forensics can require the review of all logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory (AD), DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to check for changes.

Activities associated with forensics analysis include:

• Isolate but avoid shutting down all potentially affected devices from the network. This may require closing all RDP ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up two-factor authentication to protect your backups.
• Preserve forensically valid digital images of all suspect devices so your file recovery group can get started
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and additional critical logs as quickly as feasible
• Identify the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Examine each machine and data store on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for signs of compromise
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Determine the type of ransomware involved in the attack
• Study log activity and user sessions in order to establish the time frame of the assault and to spot any possible lateral movement from the originally compromised machine
• Identify the security gaps exploited to carry out the ransomware attack
• Search for the creation of executables surrounding the first encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Examine attachments
• Separate URLs from messages and check to see if they are malware
• Produce extensive incident reporting to satisfy your insurance and compliance requirements
• Suggest recommended improvements to close security gaps and improve processes that reduce the risk of a future ransomware breach

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