Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate online help with data security issues, businesses in Buffalo, NY, can find expert expertise from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service staff is ready to provide effective and economical help with security crises that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services covers firewall technology, email security, secure network design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the industry's most advanced security credentials including CISA and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides remote security support on a per-minute basis with no minimum call duration and without extra charges for setup or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's billing policy keeps costs under control and eliminates scenarios where quick solutions result in major charges.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Should We Do?
If your business is currently fighting a security emergency, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Help to see how to get fast help. Progent has a team of seasoned network security specialists who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future exploits.

For businesses who have prepared beforehand for being hacked, the step-by-step incident response procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a major security penetration.

Overview of Security Support Services
Coordinating computer security and planning for restoring vital data and functions after an attack requires an on-going process that entails an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's security experts can support your organization at all levels in your attempt to secure your information system, from security audits to designing a comprehensive security plan. Important areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Threats.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Every business ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both preventive and responsive activity. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that works to minimize security gaps. The reactive strategy specifies activities to assist security staff to evaluate the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to build security into your company operations. Progent can set up scanning software, define and implement a secure computer architecture, and propose processes and policies that will optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to configure a firewall, design secure offsite connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an efficient VPN.

If you are interested in an economical way for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options feature non-stop remote server monitoring and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with regulatory security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in recovering systems and servers that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working because of a security breach. Progent can help determine the losses caused by the attack, restore normal business operations, and retrieve data compromised owing to the event. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a comprehensive forensic evaluation by going over event logs and using a variety of advanced assessment techniques. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your downtime and permits Progent to propose efficient measures to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations 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): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire malware attack progression including blocking, detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require urgent action. Progent can also assist you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and allows rapid restoration of vital files, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged as a result of component failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft 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 provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of top data security vendors to provide centralized management and comprehensive protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, 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 details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting environment without a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, find and protect data related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time spent trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require when you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants offer world-class consulting support in key facets of network security such as:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of comprehensive system scans to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has broad skills with these and similar tools and can assist you to understand assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web software testing and can perform expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important industry security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Learn additional information concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and IS routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Find out additional information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a broad range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes top-level consulting for security products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWALL Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic skills and worldwide benchmarks of performance that computer security professionals are required to achieve. CISM provides business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their CISM possess the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security management and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM support professional to assist your organization in vital security disciplines including information security governance, vulnerability management, data security program management, and incident handling support.

Learn the details concerning 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 verified experience, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include security management practices, security design and models, access permission systems, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification after rigorous examination and significant hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth knowledge of access management systems and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Learn additional details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure System Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the services expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security features for all critical system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious qualification that represents expertise in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has candidates pass an extensive test overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer able to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, protecting data assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and support IS controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and execute a workplace continuity strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially auditing your IT control mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing company-wide security policies.

Learn the details concerning Progent's CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Support.

Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of network security engineers. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited professional has the skills needed to deliver support in important categories of system, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations all over the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the support of certified consultants for all of the security capabilities addressed within GIAC certification topics such as assessing networks, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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