Ransomware Response Consulting Services in Southfield

Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting in Southfield
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can save the evidence of a ransomware assault and carry out a detailed forensics analysis without slowing down activity related to business resumption and data restoration. Your Southfield organization can use Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics report to counter future ransomware attacks, assist in the restoration of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and governmental requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation involves tracking and describing the ransomware assault's storyline across the network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware attack progressed within the network helps your IT staff to assess the damage and uncovers gaps in security policies or processes that should be rectified to avoid later break-ins. Forensic analysis is typically given a top priority by the cyber insurance provider and is often required by state and industry regulations. Because forensics can be time consuming, it is critical that other key activities such as business continuity are pursued in parallel. Progent has an extensive team of IT and cybersecurity professionals with the knowledge and experience needed to carry out the work of containment, operational resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensics.

Ransomware forensics investigation is arduous and calls for close interaction with the groups focused on file restoration and, if necessary, payment talks with the ransomware threat actor. Ransomware forensics typically require the review of logs, registry, Group Policy Object (GPO), AD, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to look for variations.

Activities involved with forensics analysis include:

• Disconnect but avoid shutting down all possibly affected devices from the network. This can involve closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet connected NAS storage, modifying admin credentials and user PWs, and implementing two-factor authentication to guard backups.
• Preserve forensically valid duplicates of all exposed devices so the data restoration team can get started
• Preserve firewall, virtual private network, and other key logs as quickly as feasible
• Determine the version of ransomware involved in the assault
• Inspect each machine and storage device on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Inventory all encrypted devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Study logs and user sessions in order to determine the timeline of the ransomware attack and to spot any possible lateral movement from the originally compromised system
• Understand the attack vectors used to perpetrate the ransomware assault
• Search for new executables associated with the first encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze email attachments
• Separate any URLs from email messages and check to see if they are malicious
• Produce detailed attack documentation to satisfy your insurance carrier and compliance requirements
• Document recommended improvements to close security vulnerabilities and improve workflows that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Services in Southfield
To find out more information about ways Progent can help your Southfield organization with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.