Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate remote assistance with computer security problems, businesses in Buffalo New York can find world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote support staff is ready to offer fast and low-cost help with security crises that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's security engineers are premier to support environments based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services covers firewall configuration, email security, protected system design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security certifications including Global Information Assurance Certification and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent offers remote security assistance on a per-minute basis with no minimum minutes and without extra charges for sign-up or after hours support. By charging per minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs low and eliminates situations where simple fixes result in big bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do?
If you are currently fighting a network security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Online Technical Help to learn how to receive immediate aid. Progent has a team of certified cybersecurity experts who offer remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to protect against future exploits.

For organizations who have planned beforehand for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack handling model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of handling a major security attack.

Overview of Security Services
Coordinating network security and planning for recovering vital information and functions following a security breach requires a continual effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's security experts can assist your business at any level in your attempt to secure your information network, from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Important technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from Email-Borne Threats.

Planning and Implementing Protected Environments
Every organization ought to have a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive elements. The pre-attack plan is a collection of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies procedures to assist security personnel to inventory the damage resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, record the experience, and revive business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your company processes. Progent can set up auditing utilities, create and build a safe computer infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to optimize the safety of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy protected remote access to e-mail and data, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an economical option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services include continual remote system monitoring and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud resources and that comply with government and industry data 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 expertise.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in restoring networks and devices that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have ceased to function following a security breach. Progent can help evaluate the losses caused by the breach, return your company to normal business operations, and recover information lost owing to the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a comprehensive forensic evaluation by going over event logs and using other advanced assessment techniques. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to recommend efficient ways to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an environment compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight series 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 available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to manage the complete malware attack progression including protection, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that helps you prove 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 alarms that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help your company 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 potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and enables fast restoration of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component failures, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver world-class expertise to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the technology of leading data security companies to provide centralized management and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hosting environment without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and protect data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time wasted trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers offer unique expertise in key facets of IT protection including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a set of automatic system tests to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar tools and can assist you to understand assessment results and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web application testing and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important industry security specifications including FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless appliances plus portable handsets. Find out the details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Read additional details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as supporting a wide range of network security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of any size expert consulting for products from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Consulting
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Help

CISM Security Support Expertise
CISM identifies the basic skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that computer security managers are expected to achieve. It provides business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their CISM have the background and knowledge to provide efficient security management and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM expert to help your enterprise in vital security disciplines including information security governance, risk management, data protection process management, and crisis response support.

Learn additional information concerning Progent's CISM Security Support Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have earned CISSP certification as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include security management procedures, security architecture and models, access control methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP status after thorough examination and substantial experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Read additional information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Services
The CISA accreditation is a prestigious achievement that signifies mastery in network security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit professional trained to help businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, IT enforcement, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Learn the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Expertise.

CRISC Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and execute a workplace continuity plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively assessing your IS control design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

Read the details about Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Support.

GIAC Consulting Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to provide services in key categories of system, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the help of certified security engineers for all of the security services covered under GIAC accreditation topics such as assessing networks, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application 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 situated in Buffalo New York and you're looking for cybersecurity consulting expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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