Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote help with data security issues, companies in Albany New York can find world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support staff is ready to provide effective and economical assistance with security crises that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services encompasses firewall expertise, email security, secure system infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the world's top security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and CISSP.

Progent provides online security support on a by-the-minute model without minimum call duration and without extra fees for sign-up or off-hour support. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's billing model keeps costs under control and avoids situations where quick solutions result in big charges.

We've Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
If you are currently faced with a network security crisis, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Help to learn how to receive immediate aid. Progent has a team of veteran network security specialists who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future attacks.

For organizations that have prepared in advance for an attack, the formal post-attack response procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Managing computer security plus preparedness for restoring vital information and systems after a security breach demands an on-going process that entails a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's security professionals can assist your organization at whatever level in your attempt to guard your IT network, from security audits to creating a complete security strategy. Key technologies covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Secure Networks
Every business should develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both preventive and responsive elements. The pre-attack plan is a collection of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines activities to help security staff to inventory the losses resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your business operations. Progent can configure scanning utilities, define and execute a secure IT infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies that will enhance the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, design secure offsite access to e-mail and information, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an affordable way for jobbing out your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages include continual online system monitoring and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud resources and that comply with regulatory security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in recovering systems and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working as a result of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses resulting from the assault, restore ordinary functions, and retrieve data lost owing to the event. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a thorough forensic analysis by going over activity logs and using a variety of proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to propose effective ways to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and restoration services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight family of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade traditional signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to manage the entire threat lifecycle including protection, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and enables rapid recovery of vital data, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged due to component breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to recover your critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the infrastructure of top information security companies to provide web-based management and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting solution without a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can save as much as half of time wasted trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require the instant you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers can provide world-class support in vital facets of IT protection including:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of comprehensive network scans to uncover possible security problems. Progent has broad experience with these utilities and can assist your company to understand assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's security consultants also provide web software testing and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important industry security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless appliances as well as mobile devices. Read more information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class technical expertise for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and IS routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Get more details concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
In addition to supporting a broad array of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes advanced consulting for products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Technical Assistance

CISM Security Support Expertise
CISM defines the fundamental skills and worldwide standards of performance that information security managers are required to master. CISM provides executive management the confidence that those who have been awarded their accreditation possess the background and skill to provide effective security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to assist your organization in key security disciplines including information protection governance, risk management, data security program control, and incident response support.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through verified experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included under CISSP include security administration practices, security design and test systems, connection permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification after thorough testing and significant hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth knowledge of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises 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 network security consultant to assist your enterprise to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important achievement that indicates expertise in information system security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that consultants pass an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional trained to help companies in the areas of IS audit services, information technology governance, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and support IS controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and execute a business continuity strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation services are a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially assessing your IT management design and with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security experts. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge needed to deliver support in important categories of system, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the support of certified professionals for any of the network security services covered within GIAC certification topics such as auditing perimeters, incident handling, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your company is located in Albany New York and you want network security expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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