Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online help with network security problems, businesses in Boston Massachusetts can find expert expertise from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service staff is ready to offer efficient and low-cost help with security problems that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's security engineers are certified to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services addresses firewall configuration, email security, protected system infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's top security certifications including CISA and ISSAP.

Progent provides remote security help on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum call duration and without additional fees for sign-up or after hours service. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's billing structure keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where quick fixes turn into major bills.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
In case your network is currently fighting a security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Support to learn how to get fast aid. Progent maintains a team of seasoned network security experts who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future attacks.

For companies that have planned in advance for a security breech, the formal post-attack response procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Managing network security plus planning for recovering vital data and systems after an attack requires a continual effort involving an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can assist your business at whatever level in your efforts to protect your information network, ranging from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security program. Key technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Environments
Every company should develop a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both proactive and responsive activity. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines activities to assist IT staff to evaluate the losses resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, record the event, and revive network activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your company processes. Progent can install auditing utilities, define and implement a safe network infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to maximize the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy protected offsite connectivity to email and information, and install an effective VPN.

If your company is looking for an affordable way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options feature continual remote server monitoring and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with government data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in recovering systems and computers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have failed as a result of a security penetration. Progent can help assess the losses resulting from the assault, restore ordinary business operations, and recover data compromised owing to the assault. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing other proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest efficient measures to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an information system compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight line 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 Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to manage the complete malware attack progression including protection, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique needs and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and allows fast recovery of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

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 technology of leading information security vendors to deliver centralized management and world-class protection for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation 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: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, retrieve and protect information about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time wasted looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants can provide world-class consulting support in vital facets of computer security such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with information risk auditing utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive system tests to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar tools and can help you to understand assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web software testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key industry security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances plus portable handsets. Read additional details about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth technical support for Cisco's entire range of security and VPN solutions including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Find out more details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a wide array of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes top-level consulting for solutions from other major firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

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

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the basic competencies and worldwide standards of service that computer security professionals are expected to master. CISM provides business management the confidence that consultants who have earned their accreditation have the background and skill to offer effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM expert to help your organization in vital security disciplines including data protection governance, risk management, data protection process control, and crisis handling support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and models, connection permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough examination and significant experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with 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 security analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Support Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a recognized qualification that represents expertise in information system security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that candidates pass an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant able to help businesses in the fields of IS audit process, IT governance, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to verify a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially auditing your IT management mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Consulting Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of computer security engineers. GIAC's mission is to assure that an accredited professional has the skills appropriate to deliver services in vital areas of system, data, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the support of certified consultants for all of the security disciplines covered within GIAC accreditation topics including auditing security systems, incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Support
If your company is situated in Boston Massachusetts and you're trying to find computer security consulting, call 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.