Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote assistance with data security problems, companies in Albany New York have access to expert troubleshooting from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are ready to provide effective and low-cost assistance with security problems that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to support environments based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services encompasses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, secure system architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support staff has earned the world's most advanced security certifications including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides remote security assistance on a by-the-minute model without minimum times and no extra charges for setup or off-hour service. By billing per minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps costs low and eliminates situations where simple solutions turn into big charges.

We've Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
If your network is currently experiencing a security emergency, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Network Help to find out how to receive fast help. Progent maintains a pool of veteran cybersecurity specialists who offer online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future exploits.

For organizations who have prepared beforehand for an attack, the formal post-attack handling procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a major security penetration.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Coordinating computer protection and preparation for recovering vital data and systems following an attack requires an on-going process that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified experts can help your organization at any level in your efforts to secure your information network, from security audits to creating a complete security program. Important technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Protected Networks
Every company should develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both proactive and responsive activity. The proactive plan is a set of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to assist IT personnel to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the event, and revive business functions as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your business operations. Progent can configure auditing utilities, create and execute a secure computer infrastructure, and propose processes and policies to enhance the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, design secure remote access to e-mail and data, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an affordable way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services include non-stop remote server monitoring and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government security requirements. (Find out 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 planning and integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in recovering networks and computers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have ceased to function following a security attack. Progent can help evaluate the damage caused by the assault, return your company to normal functions, and recover information compromised owing to the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a thorough forensic analysis by examining activity logs and using a variety of proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to recommend effective ways to avoid or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent can provide the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to manage the entire threat lifecycle including protection, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and allows rapid restoration of vital data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted due to component failures, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide advanced support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your critical data. 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 incorporates the infrastructure of leading information security companies to provide web-based control and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting environment without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, find and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can save as much as half of time spent trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository 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 supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require when you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified engineers can provide unique expertise in key facets of network protection such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with information risk auditing tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive network scans to identify potential security problems. Progent has broad skills with testing utilities and can help you to analyze assessment reports and respond appropriately. Progent's security engineers also provide web software validation and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major global security specifications such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless appliances as well as mobile devices. Read additional details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class consulting services for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst switches. Read more details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a broad array of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes expert support for products from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Help

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
CISM identifies the basic competencies and international standards of service that IT security professionals are expected to master. It offers business management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their CISM possess the background and skill to provide efficient security administration and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to help your enterprise in critical security areas such as data protection governance, risk assessment, data protection process management, and incident response management.

Learn more information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Assistance.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and test systems, connection permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP status following thorough testing and extensive hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth understanding of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Get additional information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Infrastructure Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that indicates mastery in IS security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has consultants pass a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, information technology enforcement, systems and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to design, implement, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively assessing your IT control design and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for implementing security policies.

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GIAC Professional Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the skill of network security engineers. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to provide services in critical areas of system, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions around the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified professionals for any of the security services addressed under GIAC accreditation topics such as auditing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your business is situated in Albany New York and you want computer security support services, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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