Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate online help with network security issues, businesses in Boston Massachusetts have access to world-class support from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are ready to offer efficient and affordable help with security issues that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's security consultants are certified to support environments based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services addresses firewall expertise, email security, protected network design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent offers remote security assistance on a per-minute basis with no minimum call duration and without additional charges for sign-up or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's billing policy keeps costs low and avoids scenarios where quick fixes entail big bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your business is now faced with a security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Online Technical Support to see how to receive fast aid. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned cybersecurity experts who can provide online and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future attacks.

For businesses who have prepared carefully for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack handling model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a serious security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating data security plus staying ready for recovering critical data and systems following a security breach demands a continual process that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified security professionals can assist your business at all levels in your attempt to guard your IT network, from security audits to creating a complete security plan. Some technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Any company ought to have a carefully considered security plan that includes both preventive and reactive elements. The proactive plan is a set of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies procedures to assist security staff to inventory the damage resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, document the event, and revive network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning utilities, create and implement a safe network architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy protected remote access to e-mail and data, and install an effective VPN.

If you are interested in an economical option for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages feature continual online server monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with government data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent provides expertise in restoring networks and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working because of a security breach. Progent can help assess the damage caused by the breach, return your company to ordinary business operations, and retrieve data compromised owing to the breach. Progent's security engineers can also manage a thorough forensic analysis by going over event logs and using a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security issues reduces your downtime and allows Progent to recommend effective ways to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to rebuild an environment victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable 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 facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior analysis technology to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including protection, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent can also help your company to install and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and enables fast restoration of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged due to component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist 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 and virus filtering service that uses the technology of top data security companies to provide web-based control and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and safeguard data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to 50% of time thrown away looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants offer world-class specialized help in key facets of computer protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a set of comprehensive network scans to reveal potential security problems. Progent has broad skills with these and similar tools and can help you to understand assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also can perform web application validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key global security specifications such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Get the details about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical support for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Read the details about Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and VPN Technologies
As well as being expert in a wide array of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size expert consulting for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
CISM defines the fundamental competencies and international standards of service that IT security managers are expected to master. It provides executive management the assurance that those who have been awarded their certification have the experience and knowledge to offer efficient security administration and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to help your enterprise in vital security areas such as information security governance, vulnerability assessment, information security program control, and crisis response management.

Learn more information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through verified experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and test systems, connection permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Get the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP status following thorough examination and significant experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Learn more information about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected System Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your enterprise to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

Find out more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Expertise
The CISA credential is a globally recognized qualification that indicates mastery in information system security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant able to assist companies in the fields of IS audit process, information technology governance, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Learn more information concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Expertise.

CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and support IS controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively auditing your IT management design and also with the services of Progent's CISM experts for defining security policies.

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

Global Information Assurance Certification Support Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security engineers. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified professional possesses the knowledge needed to provide support in important categories of system, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the assistance of certified consultants for all of the security services covered within GIAC accreditation topics including auditing networks, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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

Depend on Progent for Network Security Support
If your organization is situated in Boston Massachusetts and you're trying to find computer security help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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