Ransomware Response Consultants in Baltimore

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting Services in Baltimore
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware attack and perform a detailed forensics investigation without slowing down activity related to business resumption and data restoration. Your Baltimore business can use Progent's ransomware forensics documentation to combat future ransomware assaults, assist in the restoration of encrypted data, and meet insurance carrier and governmental reporting requirements.

Ransomware forensics analysis involves tracking and documenting the ransomware attack's progress throughout the targeted network from start to finish. This audit trail of how a ransomware assault travelled within the network helps your IT staff to evaluate the impact and highlights vulnerabilities in security policies or processes that should be corrected to avoid future break-ins. Forensics is usually assigned a high priority by the cyber insurance provider and is typically mandated by government and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can take time, it is essential that other important activities like business continuity are performed concurrently. Progent maintains an extensive roster of information technology and cybersecurity professionals with the knowledge and experience required to perform the work of containment, business resumption, and data restoration without interfering with forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is time consuming and requires close cooperation with the teams responsible for data restoration and, if necessary, payment talks with the ransomware adversary. Ransomware forensics typically require the examination of logs, registry, GPO, Active Directory, DNS servers, routers, firewalls, schedulers, and core Windows systems to check for changes.

Services involved with forensics investigation include:

• Disconnect but avoid shutting down all potentially suspect devices from the system. This may involve closing all RDP ports and Internet facing NAS storage, changing admin credentials and user PWs, and configuring two-factor authentication to guard your backups.
• Create forensically sound digital images of all exposed devices so your file recovery team can get started
• Save firewall, virtual private network, and additional key logs as quickly as possible
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Examine each computer and storage device on the network as well as cloud-hosted storage for signs of encryption
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware used in the assault
• Study logs and sessions to establish the time frame of the ransomware attack and to identify any potential sideways migration from the first infected machine
• Understand the attack vectors exploited to carry out the ransomware assault
• Look for new executables associated with the original encrypted files or network compromise
• Parse Outlook web archives
• Examine attachments
• Separate URLs from messages and check to see if they are malware
• Produce comprehensive attack documentation to satisfy your insurance and compliance requirements
• List recommendations to close cybersecurity gaps and enforce processes that lower the risk of a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Investigation Expertise in Baltimore
To find out more information about how Progent can help your Baltimore business with ransomware forensics investigation, call 1-800-462-8800 or see Contact Progent.