Connecticut Network Security, Email Filtering, Business Continuity

Company networks in the state ofConnecticutcan depend on fast and affordable remote technical support from Progent's certified network security engineers to resolve critical security issues. The cost is competitive, charges are by the minute, sign-up is fast, and service is world class. Progent also provides assistance for complex engagements that demand the knowledge of seasoned security engineers with top industry certifications.

If yourConnecticutnetwork is far from more populated metropolitan areas includingBridgeport, New Haven, Hartford, or Stamford, contact with nearby certified network security consultants is often limited when there's a crisis. This could mean a loss of income for your business, angry clients, unproductive employees, and defocused executives. By contacting Progent's remote support, you can get in touch with a Premier security consultant ready to deliver assistance whenever you need it to keep your computer network running and recover your data.

Progent can assist you in your initiatives to defend your information system with support services ranging from network security assessments to creating a company-wide security strategy. Progent offers economical support to help small and midsize companies to set up and maintain safe IT environments based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco technology and that may include servers and desktops based on UNIX or Linux platforms as well as BYOD clients with Apple iPhones and iPads or Google Android or Windows Phone devices.

Progent can also assist you to outsource spam filtering and protection from e-mail-based attacks. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption platform that incorporates the services and infrastructure of top data security vendors to provide centralized management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also enable Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall.

Progent's certified professionals are available remotely or on premises to offer a range of urgent or longer-term computer security services such as:

• Run extensive security audits
• Clean up rapidly after serious security breaches
  
• Install firewalls from multiple vendors
• Implement safe methods for remote and mobile access
• Deploy advanced software for protection against viruses, spam and directory harvest attacks
  
• Develop a comprehensive security strategy with 24x7 network monitoring
  
• Provide outsourced Help Desk Call Center Support
• Create an effective backup and disaster recovery strategy built around Data Protection Manager (DPM) backup capability

Progent's security experts offer advanced support in key areas of computer security including security assessment, firewalls and VPN, and advanced security planning.

Security Audits
Progent's expert security consultants can assess the strength of your existing computer security implementation through comprehensive remote automated analysis based on sophisticated software tools and proven techniques. Progent's experience in this service saves you time and money and offers an accurate portrayal of security holes. The information your IT organization is provided can make up the basis of a security strategy that will permit your network to operate safely and adapt rapidly to new threats.

Automated Security Audits
Progent provides consulting in the application of security auditing utilities including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and GFI LANguard NSS for affordably performing a variety of programmed network auditing scans to identify possible security problems. Progent has extensive experience with additional network analysis tools including NMAP, AMAP, eEye, as well as utilities such as Metasploit, Netcat, Socat, and Nikto. Progent can help you to understand audit reports and react effectively.

Progent can help you build security into your company processes, install scanning tools, plan and deploy a protected network architecture, and recommend procedures to maximize the safety of your IT system. Progent's security professionals are available to show you how to set up a firewall, design safe remote access to email and data, and install virtual private network. Learn more on Progent's network security analysis.

Security Inventory Scanning Packages for Small Companies
Progent has put together two low-cost security inventory service packages intended to allow small businesses to receive an independent network security evaluation from a qualified security specialist. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, an engineer administers a comprehensive examination of your IT infrastructure from beyond your firewalled perimeter to determine potential risks in the security profile you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, a security expert executes a system scan from an authorized computer within your company firewall to uncover your exposure to inside attacks. Both security inventory services are set up and executed from a secured external site. The process is managed by a consultant with high-level security accreditations and who generates a report that summarizes and analyzes the information collected by the security scan and suggests practical remediation if called for.

Stealth Security Penetration Testing Consulting
Stealth intrusion checking is an important part of any serious IT system security plan. Progent's security professionals can run thorough penetration tests without the awareness of your company's in-house network support staff. Unannounced penetration checking shows whether existing security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident alerts and event log monitoring are properly configured and consistently monitored. Learn additional information on Progent's network penetration analysis support services.

Firewall And Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
Progent's expertise in network security technology encompasses in-depth familiarity with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology from a variety of companies including Cisco, Microsoft, and CheckPoint. Progent offers the services of consultants with key industry certifications such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Microsoft MCSE.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX Firewalls Integration and Debugging
The current ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services deliver substantially more performance than Cisco's earlier firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX security appliances for all new installations. After Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the entire line of Cisco ASA 5500-X devices can be provisioned to enable Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the market's most popular intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services bring powerful new capabilities such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can help you to maintain your legacy PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls or upgrade efficiently to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer online and onsite help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help you to design, integrate, tune, administer and debug firewall solutions built around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Learn additional details about ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower Services configuration and troubleshooting support.

Cisco Network Security and VPN Consulting Expertise
Cisco's network security and remote connection technology offer a complete line of easy-to-administer security solutions to help safeguard your wired and wireless information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and Virtual Private Network concentrators. Progent's professional staff of consultants includes field-proven specialists with Cisco's CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who can help your company to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that fit most closely with your company goals. Find out additional information about Progent's Support Expertise for Cisco Security Technology and Virtual Private Network Products.

Engineering Expertise for Other Firewall and VPN Technology
Progent provides small and medium size businesses expert support for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN technology from major firewall and Virtual Private Network security companies such as Check Point Software, Juniper Networks, and SonicWall. Progent can show you how to design a detailed security plan and choose appropriate products from multiple suppliers to support your security objectives while sticking within your spending limits.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight series of network monitoring and management 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. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to manage the entire threat progression including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as 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 unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and allows rapid restoration of vital files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can provide advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can help you to recover your critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of leading information security vendors to deliver centralized management and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs 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 machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure 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 about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time wasted looking for 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 self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you're making enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Security Planning
Every company should have a thoroughly thought out security program that includes both pre-attack processes and reaction planning. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of procedures designed to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan assists your company's security personnel to assess the impact resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and get business functions operational as quickly as feasible.

Progent's certified IS security engineers are available to assist your business to run a comprehensive vulnerability assessment and create a company-wide security plan to establish security policies and mechanisms to mitigate future attacks and dangers.

CISM Qualified Security Support Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) organization describes the basic capabilities and worldwide standards of performance that information security professionals are required to master. It provides business management the assurance that consultants who have qualified for their CISM credential possess the experience and capability to provide effective security management and support consulting. Progent offers the expertise of CISM Certified security consultants to assist businesses with:

• Network Security Processes
• Risk Analysis
• Network Security Program Management
• Information Security Administration
• Response Management

CISSP Certified Security Engineering Services
CISSP denotes mastery of an international standard for data security. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) has awarded the CISSP credential recognition in the area of information protection defined by ISO/IEC 17024. Progent can provide access to of security consultants who have earned CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified consultant to help your business in a broad range of security fields such as:

• Security Administration Procedures
• Security Architecture and Paradigms
• Access Management Solutions and Methodology
• Software Development Security
• Operations Security
• Site Security
• Encryption/Decryption Mechanisms
• Telecommunications, LAN and WAN Security
• Disaster Recovery Planning

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure Information System Architecture Engineering Services
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier IT architecture engineers are experts who have been awarded ISSAP Certification as a result of thorough testing and extensive work with information security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) certification indicates proven skill in the more in-depth demands of information system security architecture bounded by the wider scope of information system security knowledge required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security including.

• Access Management Mechanisms and Methodologies
• Telecommunications and Network Protection
• Data Encryption Options
• Needs Analysis and Security Guidelines
• Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
• Physical Security

CISA Certified Security Auditing Engineering Support
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a globally recognized qualification that represents expertise in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that consultants pass a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent's CISA information security audit specialists can assist your IT organization with:

• Information Systems Audit Services
• IT Enforcement
• Systems and Architecture Planned Useful Life
• IT Support
• Safeguarding Data Resources
• Business Continuity Preparedness

CRISC Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to design, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to create and execute a business continuity strategy based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC-certified network risk mitigation consultants can provide a range of risk assessment services such as:

• Collect information and study documentation to evaluate major vulnerabilities
• Identify legal, regulatory, and contractual mandates and company standards related to your network to determine their potential influence on your strategic goals
• Point out possible threats for your business processes to help in analyzing your enterprise risk
• Create a risk awareness initiative and provide training to make sure your organization appreciate IT risk so they can contribute to your risk management process
• Match key risk vectors to your associated business procedures to help assign risk responsibility
• Determine risk tolerance with executive leadership and key stakeholders to ensure they match

GIAC Certified IS Security Engineering Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security engineers. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited security consultant has the skills needed to provide support in important categories of system, information, and software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent's GIAC-certified network security audit engineers are available to assist your business in the areas of:

• Assessing Networks
• Incident Response
• Traffic Analysis
• Web-based Services Security
• Security information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions

Talk to a Progent Security Expert
To learn how to contact a security consultant for online or on-premises help in Connecticut, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Remote Computer Support.