Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

Boston Metro Area Contact Information:
Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Boston Metro Area.

To get immediate remote assistance with network security problems, companies in Boston, MA, have access to expert troubleshooting from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are ready to provide fast and economical assistance with security crises that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's security engineers are qualified to provide help for systems based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected network infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's support team 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 support on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum times and without extra fees for setup or after hours service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where quick solutions result in major charges.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do?
If your business is now fighting a security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Support to find out how to receive immediate assistance. Progent has a pool of veteran cybersecurity experts who can provide remote and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future attacks.

For companies that have prepared beforehand for being hacked, the step-by-step incident handling model outlined by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of responding to a major security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Managing computer security and preparation for restoring critical data and functions after an attack requires a continual program involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security engineers can support your business at whatever level in your efforts to secure your IT system, from security audits to creating a complete security strategy. Some technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Networks
Every business should have a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and reactive activity. The proactive plan is a set of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies activities to help security staff to assess the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the event, and restore network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your company processes. Progent can set up auditing utilities, define and implement a safe computer infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to maximize the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design secure online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and data, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an affordable way for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services feature non-stop remote network tracking and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with regulatory data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in restoring networks and devices that have been hacked, are in question, or have stopped working as a result of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to assess the damage resulting from the assault, restore normal functions, and recover information compromised as a result of the event. Progent's certified specialists can also oversee a thorough failure evaluation by going over event logs and using other proven assessment tools. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to suggest effective strategies to avoid or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an information system compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and restoration services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the entire threat progression including protection, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent can also help your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and allows rapid recovery of critical data, apps and VMs that have become lost or corrupted due to component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images/, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver world-class support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of top information security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays inside 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 Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting environment without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, find and protect data about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save up to half of time thrown away looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants can provide world-class expertise in key areas of network protection such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive system tests to uncover potential security holes. Progent has extensive skills with testing tools and can assist your company to analyze audit results and react appropriately. Progent's security consultants also provide web software testing and can conduct expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major industry security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Learn additional information about Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth consulting services for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Get more details about Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and VPN Solutions
As well as being expert in a broad range of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size expert engineering services for security products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Expertise
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWALL Inc. Support
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the basic competencies and worldwide standards of performance that IT security professionals are required to achieve. CISM provides executive management the confidence that those who have earned their certification have the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to help your organization in critical security disciplines including information protection governance, vulnerability management, data protection process control, and incident response management.

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CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification through verified experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and test systems, access control systems, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Learn the details about Progent's CISSP Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP certified security experts have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of thorough examination and significant hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Read the details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Qualified Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise expected of 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 cybersecurity consultant to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is an important achievement that signifies mastery in network security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-qualified security audit consultant trained to help businesses in the fields of IS audit services, information technology governance, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology support, protecting information assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-certified security engineers for objectively auditing your IT control mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing security policies and procedures.

Learn additional information about Progent's CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Expertise.

Global Information Assurance Certification Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security professionals. GIAC's goal is to assure that an accredited professional possesses the skills necessary to provide support in important areas of system, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the help of certified professionals for any of the network security capabilities covered within GIAC certification programs such as assessing IT infrastructure, incident handling, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your business is situated in Boston or elsewhere in Massachusetts and you need network security expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.