Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate online assistance with data security issues, businesses in Boston Massachusetts have access to expert expertise from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online support staff is ready to provide efficient and affordable help with security crises that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to support systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of services covers firewall configuration, email security, protected network design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides online security assistance on a by-the-minute model with no minimum times and no additional charges for setup or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's pricing model keeps costs low and avoids scenarios where quick fixes entail big bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do?
In case you are now faced with a network security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Technical Support to see how to receive fast assistance. Progent maintains a pool of veteran network security experts who offer online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to protect against future exploits.

For companies who have prepared in advance for being hacked, the formal post-attack response procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security attack.

Overview of Security Expertise
Managing computer security and preparedness for recovering vital information and functions following a security breach requires an on-going effort involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security engineers can assist your business at any level in your attempt to protect your IT system, from security audits to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Some technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from Email-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Protected Networks
Any company should develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and reactive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that works to reduce security gaps. The reactive strategy specifies procedures to assist IT personnel to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the experience, and revive business activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your company processes. Progent can set up scanning software, define and build a safe computer infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies that will optimize the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy secure remote connectivity to email and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an economical option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services feature continual online network tracking and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with regulatory security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have ceased to function as a result of a security attack. Progent can show you how to determine the damage caused by the assault, restore ordinary functions, and recover information compromised owing to the assault. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a thorough failure analysis by going over activity logs and utilizing other proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security problems reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to propose effective ways to avoid or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes next generation behavior analysis tools to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to manage the entire malware attack progression including blocking, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require immediate action. Progent can also assist your company to install and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and allows fast recovery of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged due to hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver world-class expertise to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to recover your critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top data security companies to deliver centralized management and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, see ProSight 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 or mid-size business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, find and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time wasted looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need the instant you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran engineers offer unique support in vital facets of network protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security auditing utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of automatic system tests to uncover possible security holes. Progent has broad skills with these and similar tools and can assist your company to understand assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's security consultants also provide web software validation and can perform expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important worldwide security specifications such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances plus portable handsets. Learn the details about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Find out more details concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as supporting a wide range of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes expert consulting for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the core skills and international benchmarks of performance that IT security managers are expected to master. CISM provides business management the confidence that those who have earned their certification have the background and skill to provide efficient security management and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to help your enterprise in vital security areas including data protection governance, risk management, information security process control, and crisis response support.

Read additional information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and models, connection permission systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn more information concerning Progent's CISSP Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have earned ISSAP certification as a result of thorough testing and significant experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Read the details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected System Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your organization to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important qualification that represents mastery in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has candidates pass an extensive test overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer able to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting information assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Learn additional details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services.

CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows 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 management expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially assessing your IS control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for designing security policies.

Learn more details concerning Progent's CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Consulting.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of network security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified professional has the skills necessary to provide services in important categories of network, data, and program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the expertise of certified professionals for all of the security services covered under GIAC certification programs including assessing security systems, incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Help
If your organization is situated in Boston Massachusetts and you need network security expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout New England.