For fast online assistance with network security issues, companies in Boston, MA, have access to world-class support by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are ready to offer fast and low-cost help with security problems that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to provide help for environments based on Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services addresses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, secure system infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support team has earned the industry's most advanced security credentials including GIAC and ISSAP.

Progent offers online security assistance on a per-minute model with no minimum call duration and no extra charges for sign-up or after hours service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where simple fixes result in major charges.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
Network Security ConsultantsIf your business is now fighting a security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Help to find out how to receive immediate aid. Progent has a pool of certified cybersecurity experts who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future attacks.

For organizations who have prepared carefully for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack response model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of responding to a major security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating computer protection as well as planning for recovering critical data and functions following a security breach demands an on-going process involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified experts can assist your business at all levels in your efforts to secure your information system, from security evaluation to designing a complete security program. Key areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.

Designing and Implementing Protected Networks
Every organization should have a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive activity. The proactive strategy is a collection of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to assist IT personnel to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the experience, and restore business functions as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your business processes. Progent can configure auditing software, define and execute a safe IT architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will maximize the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to set up a firewall, deploy protected remote connectivity to email and data, and install an effective VPN.

If you are looking for an economical option for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages feature non-stop online network tracking and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud hosted resources and that are compliant with government data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in restoring systems and computers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have ceased to function because of a security penetration. Progent can help evaluate the losses caused by the attack, restore normal business operations, and retrieve information compromised owing to the event. Progent's security specialists can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by going over event logs and utilizing other proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your downtime and allows Progent to suggest efficient ways to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild an environment victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior analysis technology to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to address the entire malware attack progression including blocking, detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time network-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent can also assist you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables fast recovery of critical data, applications and VMs that have become lost or damaged due to component breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the infrastructure of top information security companies to deliver centralized management and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. 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 ported immediately to an alternate hosting environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's 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 quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time thrown away trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. 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 about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified security engineers offer unique expertise in vital facets of computer security including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a set of comprehensive network tests to uncover potential security problems. Progent has broad experience with these tools and can assist you to understand audit reports and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web application validation and can perform expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key industry security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including stationary wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Find out additional information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth consulting support for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Find out more information concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
In addition to being expert in a broad range of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size top-level consulting for security products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

Unannounced Intrusion Checking Consulting
Stealth intrusion testing is a valuable method for helping organizations to determine how vulnerable their networks are to real-world attacks by revealing how well network protection procedures and mechanisms hold up to planned but unannounced intrusion attempts launched by seasoned security engineers using the latest intrusion techniques. Get the details about Progent's Penetration Testing Services.

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services
CISM Engineers for Boston, MassachusettsCertified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the fundamental competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that computer security managers are expected to master. CISM provides executive management the confidence that consultants who have earned their CISM possess the experience and skill to provide efficient security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to help your enterprise in key security disciplines such as data protection governance, vulnerability assessment, data protection program management, and incident response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
CISSP Certified Network Security Specialists for Boston, MassachusettsProgent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and models, access permission systems, software development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
CISSP Information Systems Security Architecture Professionals (ISSAP) for Boston, MassachusettsProgent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants have earned ISSAP certification after rigorous examination and substantial experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Get more details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure System Infrastructure Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
CISSP-ISSEP certified Cybersecurity ExpertsNetwork Security consultants who have earned 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 offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define efficient design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

Learn the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
CISA Cybersecurity Auditor Consultants for Boston, MassachusettsThe Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious qualification that signifies expertise in IS security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant trained to assist companies in the areas of IS audit process, information technology enforcement, network assets and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, protecting data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Consultants
CRISC-certified Risk Consultants for Boston, MassachusettsThe Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain IS controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity plan based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management expertise is a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively assessing your IS management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for defining company-wide security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Services
Network Security Experts with GIAC Certification for Boston, MassachusettsGIAC was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of computer security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified security consultant has the skills necessary to provide support in critical categories of network, information, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the expertise of certified professionals for all of the security services covered under GIAC certification topics including assessing networks, incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Boston or anywhere in Massachusetts and you're trying to find cybersecurity expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

Boston Metro Area Contact Information:
Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Boston Metro Area.

Boston Onsite IT Consulting
Progent locations in the Boston Metro Area

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Boston 201 Washington Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02108		 857-770-0339 Boston Network Support Services
Lawrence 800 Turnpike Street, Suite 300
North Andover, Massachusetts 01845		 978-989-6597 Lawrence Network Support Services
Waltham 233 Needham Street, Suite 300
Newton, Massachusetts 02464		 617-581-0770 Waltham Network Support Services