Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate remote help with data security problems, companies in Boston Massachusetts can find world-class troubleshooting from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support consultants are ready to provide effective and low-cost help with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to provide help for environments powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad array of services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected system infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support team has earned the industry's most advanced security accreditations including CISA and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides remote security expertise on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum times and no extra charges for setup or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses low and avoids scenarios where quick fixes turn into big expenses.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
If your network is currently fighting a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Network Help to see how to receive fast help. Progent has a team of veteran network security experts who can provide remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For companies who have planned in advance for an attack, the formal incident response procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Managing computer protection and preparation for restoring vital data and systems following a security breach demands an on-going program that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's security professionals can assist your organization at all levels in your efforts to secure your information network, ranging from security audits to designing a comprehensive security plan. Some areas supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Any business should have a carefully considered security plan that includes both proactive and reactive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a set of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The reactive strategy defines procedures to help IT staff to assess the losses caused by a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and revive network functions as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your company operations. Progent can set up auditing utilities, create and implement a secure IT architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy safe offsite access to e-mail and data, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options include continual online server tracking and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud infrastructure and that comply with regulatory data 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 planning and integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring systems and devices that have been compromised, are suspect, or have failed because of a security breach. Progent can help determine the damage resulting from the breach, return your company to ordinary functions, and recover data lost as a result of the breach. Progent's security specialists can also perform a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest efficient measures to avoid or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to rebuild an information system that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of network management outsourcing 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 and compliance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by legacy signature-based AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the entire malware attack progression including filtering, identification, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's unique needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and enables fast recovery of critical files, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can deliver advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security vendors to deliver centralized management and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, see 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 organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under 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 ported easily to a different hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT 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 protect information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you 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 veteran engineers can provide world-class support in key areas of IT protection such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with security auditing utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a set of comprehensive system tests to identify possible security holes. Progent has broad skills with scanning tools and can help you to understand assessment results and react appropriately. Progent's security consultants also provide web software validation and can perform expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key industry security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless appliances as well as portable devices. Find out additional details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class consulting support for Cisco's complete family of security and VPN solutions including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Read additional information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
In addition to being expert in a wide range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes expert consulting for security products from other major firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

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

CISM Security Support Expertise
CISM defines the core competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that computer security professionals are expected to master. CISM provides business management the confidence that those who have been awarded their accreditation possess the background and knowledge to provide effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to help your enterprise in vital security areas such as data security governance, vulnerability management, information security program control, and crisis response support.

Get more details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Assistance.

CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through verified experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security design and models, access control methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants have been awarded ISSAP status following thorough examination and substantial hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

Get the details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected System Architecture Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the services associated with 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 expert to assist your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

Learn more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting Services.

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is an important achievement that indicates expertise in IS security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has candidates pass an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security professional trained to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit process, IT administration, systems and architecture lifecycle, IT support, protecting data resources, and business continuity preparedness.

Learn the details concerning Progent's CISA Consulting Services.

CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management expertise is a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially evaluating your IS control design and also with the services of Progent's CISM experts for designing security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security engineers. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified security consultant has the skills necessary to deliver services in key areas of network, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and institutions all over the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified consultants for any of the security disciplines addressed under GIAC certification programs including auditing IT infrastructure, incident handling, traffic analysis, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Contact Progent for Computer Security Support
If your company is located in Boston Massachusetts and you're trying to find computer security help, 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.