Ransomware Response Services in Baltimore

Overview of Progent's Ransomware Forensics Analysis and Reporting in Baltimore
Progent's ransomware forensics consultants can preserve the evidence of a ransomware attack and carry out a comprehensive forensics analysis without slowing down the processes required for business resumption and data restoration. Your Baltimore business can utilize Progent's post-attack forensics report to combat subsequent ransomware attacks, assist in the restoration of lost data, and meet insurance and regulatory mandates.

Ransomware forensics analysis involves discovering and describing the ransomware attack's progress across the targeted network from beginning to end. This history of how a ransomware attack travelled within the network assists your IT staff to evaluate the impact and brings to light weaknesses in rules or work habits that should be corrected to avoid later break-ins. Forensics is usually given a top priority by the insurance provider and is often mandated by state and industry regulations. Since forensic analysis can take time, it is vital that other important activities such as business resumption are pursued in parallel. Progent has a large team of information technology and security experts with the skills required to carry out the work of containment, business continuity, and data restoration without disrupting forensic analysis.

Ransomware forensics analysis is complicated and requires intimate cooperation with the teams focused on data restoration and, if necessary, payment negotiation with the ransomware adversary. Ransomware forensics can involve the examination of all logs, registry, GPO, AD, DNS, routers, firewalls, scheduled tasks, and basic Windows systems to detect variations.

Services involved with forensics include:

• Disconnect but avoid shutting off all possibly suspect devices from the network. This may require closing all Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports and Internet facing network-attached storage, modifying admin credentials and user passwords, and setting up two-factor authentication to protect backups.
• Create forensically sound images of all exposed devices so the file restoration group can get started
• Save firewall, VPN, and additional critical logs as quickly as feasible
• Establish the strain of ransomware used in the attack
• Survey every computer and data store on the system as well as cloud-hosted storage for signs of compromise
• Catalog all compromised devices
• Establish the kind of ransomware involved in the assault
• Study log activity and sessions in order to establish the time frame of the ransomware assault and to spot any possible lateral migration from the originally infected system
• Identify the attack vectors used to carry out the ransomware assault
• Look for the creation of executables surrounding the first encrypted files or network breach
• Parse Outlook PST files
• Analyze email attachments
• Extract URLs from messages and check to see whether they are malware
• Produce extensive incident documentation to meet your insurance and compliance regulations
• List recommendations to close security gaps and improve processes that lower the exposure to a future ransomware breach

Contact Progent about Ransomware Forensics Analysis Services in Baltimore
To find out more about how Progent can help your Baltimore business with ransomware forensics analysis, call 1-800-462-8800 or visit Contact Progent.