Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast online assistance with network security issues, companies in Boston Massachusetts can find world-class support by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote support consultants are ready to provide efficient and low-cost assistance with security issues that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to support systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure system architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's support team has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides remote security expertise on a per-minute basis with no minimum minutes and no additional charges for sign-up or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where quick fixes result in major bills.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
If your business is now fighting a security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Network Help to learn how to receive fast help. Progent maintains a pool of veteran cybersecurity experts who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to protect against future attacks.

For companies who have prepared beforehand for being hacked, the formal incident response procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a major security incident.

Overview of Security Expertise
Managing network security plus staying ready for recovering critical information and systems after an attack requires a continual process involving an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified engineers can help your organization at all levels in your attempt to safeguard your IT system, from security assessments to creating a complete security plan. Key technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from Email-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Every business ought to develop a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and responsive elements. The proactive plan is a collection of precautions that works to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies procedures to help security staff to assess the losses resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and revive business activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your business processes. Progent can install auditing software, create and build a safe network architecture, and propose processes and policies to optimize the safety of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to set up a firewall, design safe remote access to email and data, and install an effective VPN.

If you are interested in an economical way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options include continual online server tracking and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry 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 Platform planning and integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in recovering systems and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have ceased to function because of a security attack. Progent can show you how to assess the losses caused by the attack, restore ordinary functions, and retrieve information lost as a result of the attack. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's background with security problems reduces your downtime and allows Progent to suggest efficient measures to prevent or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an environment compromised by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware removal and restoration services.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management provide businesses of all sizes a versatile and affordable alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your dynamic IT network. Besides maximizing the security and functionality of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your in-house IT team to concentrate on more strategic projects and activities that derive the highest business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete threat progression including blocking, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent accessible from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent can also help your company to set up and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and enables fast recovery of critical files, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged due to component failures, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to recover your business-critical data. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of top information security companies to provide web-based control and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware solution without a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into 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 capture, maintain, find and protect data about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to half of time wasted looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require when you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's security engineers offer world-class support in vital areas of IT protection including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of comprehensive network scans to reveal possible security problems. Progent has broad experience with these and similar utilities and can help you to analyze assessment results and react appropriately. Progent's security engineers also provide web application validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key worldwide security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless equipment plus mobile handsets. Learn more details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network 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 world-class technical services for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Find out more information about Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
As well as being expert in a broad range of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes top-level consulting for products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

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

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the basic skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that information technology security professionals are required to master. It offers business management the confidence that those who have been awarded their accreditation possess the background and knowledge to provide efficient security administration and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to help your organization in key security disciplines including data protection governance, risk management, information protection process management, and crisis response support.

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

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included under CISSP include security management procedures, security design and models, connection control methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Read more details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP certification following rigorous examination and substantial hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive understanding of access management systems and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Learn additional information concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected Network Infrastructure Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations 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 assist your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical security solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is an important qualification that represents mastery in IS security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security consultant trained to assist companies in the areas of information systems audit services, information technology governance, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology support, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk management expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively assessing your IT control mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for implementing security policies and procedures.

Get additional details about Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Expertise.

Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security engineers. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified security consultant has the skills needed to deliver services in critical categories of system, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and institutions all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of certified consultants for all of the network security services covered within GIAC certification programs including auditing networks, incident response, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Support
If your business is situated in Boston Massachusetts and you're trying to find cybersecurity expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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