Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get fast remote assistance with data security problems, companies in Buffalo New York can find world-class troubleshooting from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are available to offer fast and low-cost help with security problems that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited security engineers are certified to support environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected system infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's support team has earned the world's most advanced security credentials including CISA and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent offers remote security support services on a per-minute basis without minimum times and no additional fees for sign-up or off-hour service. By billing per minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where simple solutions entail big bills.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
If you are currently faced with a network security emergency, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Help to find out how to get immediate assistance. Progent has a team of seasoned cybersecurity experts who can provide remote and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future exploits.

For companies that have planned in advance for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack response model promoted by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of handling a serious security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Managing computer protection plus planning for recovering vital information and functions after an attack demands a continual program that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's security professionals can support your organization at whatever level in your efforts to secure your IT system, ranging from security assessments to designing a comprehensive security plan. Some areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Every business ought to develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of precautions that helps to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to assist security personnel to evaluate the damage resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and restore business activity as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your business operations. Progent can set up scanning utilities, create and implement a secure IT architecture, and propose processes and policies to maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design protected offsite connectivity to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an economical way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services feature non-stop remote server monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud-based resources and that comply with regulatory security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering systems and computers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function because of a security attack. Progent can show you how to assess the losses caused by the attack, restore normal functions, and recover information compromised owing to the attack. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by going over activity logs and using a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to propose efficient measures to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct an environment victimized by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses 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 (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior analysis tools to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to manage the entire threat lifecycle including blocking, identification, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer economical multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive 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, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and enables fast restoration of critical data, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud 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 uses the infrastructure of top information security companies to provide centralized control and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. 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 protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting environment without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. 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, retrieve and protect data related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time wasted trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require when you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's security engineers offer unique consulting support in vital facets of computer protection such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of comprehensive network tests to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with testing utilities and can help your company to understand audit results and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web software testing and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important industry security standards such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Get more details about Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class technical services for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Get more information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
In addition to being expert in a broad array of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes expert support for solutions from other important firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Support
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the basic skills and international benchmarks of performance that IT security professionals are required to achieve. CISM offers executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their certification possess the background and skill to provide efficient security administration and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to assist your enterprise in vital security areas such as data security governance, risk assessment, information protection process control, and crisis response management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through verified experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and models, connection permission systems, applications development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants have been awarded ISSAP certification as a result of rigorous examination and extensive hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive knowledge of access management systems and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Learn additional details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected IT Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise 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 cybersecurity expert to help your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all critical system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a prestigious achievement that represents expertise in IS security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential has consultants undergo an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant trained to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit process, information technology governance, systems and architecture planned useful life, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially auditing your IS management design and with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to provide services in vital areas of system, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations around the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the assistance of certified professionals for all of the security capabilities covered under GIAC certification programs including assessing perimeters, incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Help
If your business is located in Buffalo New York and you're trying to find cybersecurity help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout upstate New York.