Ransomware Response Consultants in Wilmington

Progent's Ransomware Forensics and Reporting in Wilmington
Progent's ransomware forensics experts can save the system state after a ransomware attack and perform a comprehensive forensics investigation without disrupting the processes required for business continuity and data restoration. Your Wilmington business can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics documentation to block subsequent ransomware attacks, validate the cleanup of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and regulatory requirements.

Ransomware forensics investigation involves tracking and documenting the ransomware assault's progress across the targeted network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware assault travelled within the network assists your IT staff to assess the damage and brings to light gaps in policies or processes that need to be corrected to avoid later breaches. Forensic analysis is usually assigned a top priority by the cyber insurance carrier and is often mandated by government and industry regulations. Since forensics can take time, it is essential that other important activities such as operational resumption are performed in parallel. Progent maintains a large team of information technology and cybersecurity experts with the skills needed to perform activities for containment, operational resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is arduous and requires intimate cooperation with the groups focused on data cleanup and, if necessary, settlement discussions with the ransomware adversary. forensics can involve the examination of logs, registry, GPO, AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and basic Windows systems to look for variations.

Services associated with forensics analysis include:

• Disconnect but avoid shutting down all possibly impacted devices from the network. This can require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and implementing 2FA to secure your backups.
• Preserve forensically sound duplicates of all exposed devices so the data restoration team can get started
• Save firewall, VPN, and other critical logs as soon as feasible
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Examine every computer and storage device on the network including cloud-hosted storage for indications of compromise
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Establish the type of ransomware used in the attack
• Study log activity and sessions to establish the time frame of the ransomware attack and to spot any possible lateral movement from the first compromised machine
• Identify the security gaps exploited to carry out the ransomware assault
• Look for new executables associated with the first encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze attachments
• Separate URLs from email messages and check to see if they are malware
• Produce comprehensive attack reporting to meet your insurance and compliance requirements
• Document recommendations to close cybersecurity gaps and enforce workflows that lower the exposure to a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Expertise in Wilmington
To learn more about how Progent can help your Wilmington business with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.