Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast remote assistance with data security issues, companies in Albany New York can find world-class expertise from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service staff is available to provide effective and low-cost assistance with security issues that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to provide help for environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of consulting services covers firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has earned the world's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Security Manager and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides online security expertise on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum minutes and no additional charges for setup or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where simple fixes result in big bills.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do Now?
In case your business is currently fighting a network security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Help to learn how to get fast aid. Progent has a team of certified network security experts who offer online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future exploits.

For organizations who have planned in advance for being hacked, the formal post-attack response procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security attack.

Overview of Security Expertise
Managing network protection and staying ready for recovering vital information and functions after a security breach requires a continual program involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security consultants can assist your business at all levels in your attempt to guard your information system, ranging from security assessments to designing a complete security strategy. Important technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Protected Networks
Any organization should have a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive steps. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy specifies procedures to assist IT personnel to inventory the losses caused by a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and revive network functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to design security into your company operations. Progent can install scanning utilities, create and implement a safe network infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to maximize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, design safe remote access to email and data, and install an effective VPN.

If your company is looking for an affordable option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options feature automated online system monitoring and fast response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has expertise in restoring systems and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have failed because of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to assess the losses resulting from the assault, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover information lost owing to the attack. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a comprehensive forensic analysis by examining event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security issues reduces your downtime and allows Progent to recommend efficient measures to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct an environment victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's unique needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of critical files, applications and VMs that have become lost or damaged due to hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can assist you to recover your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top information security companies to provide centralized control and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time spent searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers can provide world-class specialized help in key facets of IT security including:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of comprehensive network tests to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with testing tools and can assist you to understand assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's security consultants also provide web application testing and can perform expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important worldwide security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless appliances as well as portable devices. Read the details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class technical support for Cisco's complete family of protection and VPN products including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Find out the details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and VPN Solutions
In addition to being expert in a wide array of network security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size expert engineering services for security products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
CISM identifies the core competencies and international benchmarks of performance that IT security professionals are required to master. CISM provides executive management the confidence that those who have been awarded their CISM have the experience and skill to provide efficient security management and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to help your organization in vital security areas including data security governance, vulnerability assessment, data security process control, and crisis response support.

Find out the details concerning Progent's CISM Security Consulting Services.

CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation through verified experience, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and models, access permission methodology, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation following thorough examination and substantial experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Read the details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected IT Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the services expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your organization to follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

Find out the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Expertise
The CISA credential is a recognized achievement that indicates mastery in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer trained to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit process, IT administration, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity planning.

Find out the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise.

CRISC IT Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively auditing your IT management mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing security policies.

Learn the details about Progent's CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Expertise.

GIAC Professional Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of computer security experts. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified professional possesses the skills necessary to deliver support in key areas of system, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified professionals for any of the network security services covered within GIAC accreditation programs including assessing networks, incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Albany New York and you need network security expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout upstate New York.