Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate online assistance with network security problems, companies in Brooklyn New York have access to expert support from Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is available to offer efficient and affordable assistance with security issues that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's security engineers are premier to support environments powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad array of services encompasses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected system architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the industry's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides online security help on a per-minute model with no minimum call duration and no extra charges for sign-up or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions turn into major charges.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do?
In case your network is currently experiencing a security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Support to find out how to receive immediate help. Progent maintains a team of certified cybersecurity specialists who offer online and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For businesses who have planned in advance for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack handling procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of responding to a serious security penetration.

Introduction to Security Services
Managing data protection and planning for restoring vital data and systems after an attack demands an on-going process that entails an array of technologies and processes. Progent's security consultants can help your organization at whatever level in your efforts to secure your information network, ranging from security audits to designing a complete security program. Important technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Attacks.

Designing and Building Secure Networks
Any company should have a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and responsive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a set of precautions that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines activities to assist IT staff to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and revive network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company operations. Progent can install auditing utilities, create and build a secure IT infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to enhance the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to configure a firewall, design secure online and mobile connectivity to email and information, and install an effective virtual private network.

If you are interested in an affordable way for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options feature automated online system tracking and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with regulatory data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent offers skill in recovering networks and computers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have stopped working because of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to assess the losses resulting from the assault, restore normal business operations, and retrieve data compromised owing to the event. Progent's security specialists can also manage a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining activity logs and using other advanced assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to propose efficient ways to avoid or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore a network victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Work-from-Home Cybersecurity Expertise
At-home workers typically utilize their own computing devices and often operate in a poorly secured physical area. This multiplies their susceptibility to cyber attacks and calls for judicious configuration of firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, thorough end-user education, and the creation of security policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned roster of Work-from-home solutions consultants can help you to design, deploy and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that protects vital information resources in environments that include at-home workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of any size a flexible and affordable alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving IT network. Besides maximizing the security and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT staff to concentrate on line-of-business projects and activities that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's patch management services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to address the complete malware attack lifecycle including filtering, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within one agent accessible from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's specific needs and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry data protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
Progent has partnered with advanced backup technology vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a selection of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS products manage and track your data backup processes and enable non-disruptive backup and fast restoration of vital files, apps, images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets you protect against data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, human mistakes, malicious employees, or software glitches. Managed services available in the ProSight ProSight Data Protection selection include ProSight Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Total Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to determine which of these managed services are best suited for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound 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 provide web-based management and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables one-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured online account and enter your password you are asked to verify who you are on a unit that only you have and that uses a different network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be used as this added form of ID validation including a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate multiple verification devices. To find out more about Duo identity authentication services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware solution without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, find and safeguard data related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains and warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time wasted searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you�re planning enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require as soon as you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's security engineers offer world-class expertise in vital facets of network protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with security evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic system scans to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with scanning tools and can assist you to analyze assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web application validation and can perform thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important worldwide security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Read the details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical services for Cisco's entire family of protection and VPN technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Read additional details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
As well as supporting a broad array of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size expert engineering services for technologies from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the basic skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that IT security managers are required to master. It offers business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their CISM possess the background and skill to provide efficient security administration and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to assist your enterprise in vital security areas including data security governance, risk assessment, data security program control, and incident response management.

Learn the details about Progent's CISM Security Consulting Services.

CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated experience, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and test systems, access control systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification following rigorous examination and extensive experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Read more details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The CISA accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that signifies mastery in information system security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to assist companies in the areas of IS audit services, information technology administration, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, safeguarding data assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and carry out a business continuity plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially auditing your IT management mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

Find out additional details about Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Services.

GIAC Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to provide support in important areas of system, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions around the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the network security services covered within GIAC certification topics such as auditing networks, security incident response, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your company is located in Brooklyn New York and you need cybersecurity help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to 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.