Ransomware Response Consulting Services in San Francisco

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in San Francisco
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the system state after a ransomware attack and carry out a comprehensive forensics analysis without interfering with activity required for business continuity and data restoration. Your San Francisco business can utilize Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics documentation to block subsequent ransomware attacks, validate the restoration of lost data, and comply with insurance and regulatory requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis involves discovering and describing the ransomware assault's progress throughout the targeted network from beginning to end. This history of the way a ransomware attack progressed within the network helps you to assess the impact and highlights weaknesses in rules or processes that should be corrected to avoid future breaches. Forensics is typically assigned a top priority by the cyber insurance provider and is often required by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can take time, it is critical that other key activities like business continuity are performed in parallel. Progent maintains an extensive team of IT and cybersecurity professionals with the knowledge and experience required to carry out the work of containment, business continuity, and data recovery without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics analysis is complicated and calls for close interaction with the groups responsible for data cleanup and, if needed, payment negotiation with the ransomware hacker. Ransomware forensics can require the examination of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory, DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and core Windows systems to look for changes.

Activities involved with forensics investigation include:

• Detach but avoid shutting down all possibly suspect devices from the network. This can require closing all RDP ports and Internet connected NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and setting up two-factor authentication to guard your backups.
• Capture forensically valid duplicates of all suspect devices so the file recovery team can proceed
• Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and additional key logs as quickly as feasible
• Establish the strain of ransomware involved in the attack
• Examine each computer and storage device on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Establish the type of ransomware used in the attack
• Study logs and user sessions to establish the time frame of the assault and to spot any possible sideways migration from the first compromised system
• Identify the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Search for the creation of executables associated with the original encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze attachments
• Separate any URLs from email messages and check to see if they are malware
• Provide extensive incident documentation to satisfy your insurance and compliance mandates
• List recommendations to shore up security gaps and improve processes that reduce the risk of a future ransomware exploit

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