Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online help with data security problems, businesses in Buffalo New York have access to expert expertise by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service staff is available to provide fast and affordable help with security issues that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to provide help for environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of consulting services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected system infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including Global Information Assurance Certification and CISSP.

Progent offers online security assistance on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and without additional charges for setup or off-hour support. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses low and avoids situations where quick solutions turn into major expenses.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
In case your business is currently fighting a security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Network Support to find out how to receive fast assistance. Progent has a team of certified network security specialists who can provide online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to protect against future exploits.

For companies that have prepared beforehand for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack handling model outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of handling a major security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Coordinating data protection as well as staying ready for recovering vital data and systems after a security breach demands a continual process that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's security experts can help your organization at any level in your attempt to secure your IT system, from security evaluation to creating a complete security program. Important technologies covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Any company ought to have a carefully thought out security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive elements. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy specifies procedures to help security personnel to inventory the losses resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and revive business activity as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to build protection into your company processes. Progent can install scanning software, create and execute a safe computer architecture, and propose procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to configure a firewall, design safe online and mobile connectivity to email and data, and configure an effective VPN.

If you are looking for an economical option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services feature non-stop remote server tracking and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud resources and that are compliant with regulatory data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering networks and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have stopped working because of a security attack. Progent can help determine the damage caused by the assault, return your company to ordinary functions, and recover data lost as a result of the event. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a thorough forensic analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to propose effective measures to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the services of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct an IT network compromised by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to manage the entire threat progression including blocking, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against new threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services 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 endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost 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 rapid restoration of vital data, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged due to component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading information security vendors to deliver centralized control and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hosting solution without a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Find out more details 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, retrieve and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time spent searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need the instant you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's security consultants offer unique support in key facets of computer security including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of comprehensive system tests to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar utilities and can help your company to understand audit results and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also provide web software testing and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important worldwide security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment plus portable devices. Find out more details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class consulting services for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Learn additional details concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as being expert in a broad range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size advanced engineering services for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager defines the core skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that computer security managers are required to master. CISM provides business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their accreditation have the experience and skill to provide effective security administration and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified expert to help your organization in key security disciplines such as data protection governance, vulnerability management, data security program management, 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 certification through demonstrated experience, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include security management procedures, security architecture and test systems, access control methodology, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out the details about Progent's CISSP Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants have earned ISSAP certification as a result of thorough examination and substantial experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth knowledge of access management systems and techniques, phone system and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Learn more information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected Network Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, define efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

Learn the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that represents mastery in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit professional trained to assist companies in the areas of information systems audit services, IT governance, systems and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially assessing your IT control design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Support Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to assure that an accredited professional has the skills appropriate to deliver support in critical areas of system, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the support of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the network security disciplines covered within GIAC accreditation topics including assessing IT infrastructure, incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your business is located in Buffalo New York and you want network security support services, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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