Ransomware Response Services in Fort Wayne

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Investigation and Reporting Services in Fort Wayne
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can capture the evidence of a ransomware attack and carry out a comprehensive forensics investigation without interfering with activity related to business resumption and data restoration. Your Fort Wayne business can use Progent's post-attack ransomware forensics documentation to counter future ransomware attacks, validate the recovery of encrypted data, and comply with insurance and governmental requirements.

Ransomware forensics is aimed at determining and documenting the ransomware attack's progress throughout the network from beginning to end. This audit trail of how a ransomware assault progressed within the network helps your IT staff to evaluate the impact and brings to light gaps in security policies or work habits that need to be corrected to avoid later breaches. Forensic analysis is usually assigned a high priority by the insurance carrier and is often required by government and industry regulations. Because forensic analysis can take time, it is vital that other key recovery processes like operational resumption are executed concurrently. Progent has an extensive roster of IT and cybersecurity professionals with the skills required to carry out the work of containment, operational continuity, and data restoration without disrupting forensics.

Ransomware forensics is time consuming and calls for close cooperation with the groups focused on file recovery and, if necessary, payment talks with the ransomware attacker. Ransomware forensics typically involve the examination of all logs, registry, Group Policy Object, Active Directory, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to look for anomalies.

Activities involved with forensics include:

• Isolate but avoid shutting down all potentially affected devices from the system. This may require closing all RDP ports and Internet connected NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user passwords, and setting up two-factor authentication to secure your backups.
• Capture forensically valid duplicates of all suspect devices so your data restoration group can proceed
• Save firewall, VPN, and additional key logs as quickly as possible
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the attack
• Inspect every machine and data store on the system as well as cloud-hosted storage for indications of encryption
• Catalog all encrypted devices
• Determine the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Study logs and user sessions to establish the time frame of the attack and to identify any potential sideways movement from the first compromised machine
• Identify the attack vectors exploited to carry out the ransomware assault
• Look for the creation of executables surrounding the original encrypted files or system breach
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Analyze attachments
• Extract URLs embedded in messages and check to see whether they are malware
• Produce detailed attack documentation to meet your insurance carrier and compliance mandates
• List recommended improvements to close security gaps and improve workflows that reduce the risk of a future ransomware exploit

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Services in Fort Wayne
To find out more about how Progent can assist your Fort Wayne organization with ransomware forensics, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.