Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote help with network security problems, businesses in Brooklyn New York can find expert expertise by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online support consultants are available to provide fast and economical assistance with security issues that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to support systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected system design, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's top security accreditations including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers remote security help on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and no extra charges for setup or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses low and avoids scenarios where simple solutions turn into big bills.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do?
In case your business is now fighting a network security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Online Network Support to find out how to receive immediate help. Progent has a pool of certified cybersecurity experts who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future exploits.

For organizations that have planned in advance for an attack, the formal post-attack response model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of handling a serious security penetration.

Overview of Security Support Services
Managing data security as well as preparation for recovering vital data and functions following an attack demands a continual program involving a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified engineers can support your organization at whatever level in your efforts to secure your information network, ranging from security audits to designing a comprehensive security plan. Important areas supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Any company should develop a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of precautions that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines procedures to help security staff to assess the damage resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, record the experience, and revive network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your business operations. Progent can configure auditing utilities, create and build a secure IT architecture, and propose procedures and policies that will maximize the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to set up a firewall, design protected offsite connectivity to email and data, and configure an effective VPN.

If you are interested in an economical option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services include automated remote server tracking and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud hosted resources and that are compliant with government data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in recovering networks and computers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have failed as a result of a security attack. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve data lost as a result of the event. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing other proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your downtime and allows Progent to propose effective strategies to prevent or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an environment victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete threat lifecycle including protection, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. 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 (ESP) managed services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent can also help you to set up and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and enables fast restoration of critical files, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide world-class support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can assist you to recover your critical information. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading information security vendors to deliver web-based control and comprehensive protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting solution without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time thrown away searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants can provide unique expertise in vital areas of computer security such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic system scans to reveal potential security problems. Progent has broad skills with these utilities and can help your company to analyze audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web application validation and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with key worldwide security specifications such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless equipment plus portable devices. Find out the details concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class consulting support for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Read more details about Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
As well as supporting a wide range of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes expert consulting for solutions from other major firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
CISM identifies the basic competencies and international benchmarks of service that computer security managers are expected to master. It provides business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM have the background and skill to provide efficient security administration and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM consultant to help your organization in critical security areas such as information security governance, vulnerability management, data security process control, and incident handling management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP status as a result of verified experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include security administration practices, security design and test systems, connection control methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP status following thorough examination and extensive hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth understanding of access control systems and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your business 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 shown their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop effective design strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is an important qualification that indicates expertise in IS security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, 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-Premier security audit consultant trained to help businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, information technology enforcement, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology support, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and support information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and execute a business continuity plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively assessing your IT management mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for defining security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security engineers. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited security consultant possesses the skills necessary to deliver services in key areas of system, information, and software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions all over the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the help of GIAC certified consultants for all of the security disciplines covered under GIAC accreditation programs such as assessing perimeters, incident response, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Support
If your business is located in Brooklyn New York and you're looking for cybersecurity engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support in the Greater New York City Metro Area including Stamford, and all of New Jersey.