Connecticut Computer Security, Email Filtering, Disaster Recovery

Company computer networks in the state ofConnecticutcan have fast and economical remote access to Progent's qualified security consultants to help with complex security problems. Rates are competitive, charges are per minute, engagement is fast, and support is world class. Progent also provides assistance for complex engagements that demand the services of seasoned security consultants with high-level industry certifications.

If yourConnecticutoffice is outside of major urban areas likeBridgeport, New Haven, Hartford, or Stamford, contact with nearby certified network security engineers is often limited when there's a crisis. This can cause a drop in productivity for your company, upset clients, unproductive workers, and defocused management. By utilizing Progent, you can get in touch with a Premier security professional who can deliver assistance when you require it to keep your information system running and restore your information.

Progent can assist you in your efforts to protect your IT environment with support services that can range from security audits to creating a company-wide security strategy. Progent provides affordable service to assist small and midsize companies to configure and maintain safe IT environments based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco technology and that may include servers and desktops running UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X platforms plus BYOD clients with Apple iPhones and iPads or Android or Windows Phone handsets.

Progent can also show you how to outsource spam filtering and protection from e-mail-based assaults. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption platform that uses the services and infrastructure of top information security vendors to provide centralized management and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall.

Progent's security professionals are accessible remotely or on site to offer a range of urgent or longer-term IT security services including:

• Perform thorough security evaluations
• Clean up quickly after attacks
  
• Configure effective firewalls
• Configure safe methods for remote and mobile connectivity
• Install advanced utilities for automatic defense against spam and directory harvest attacks
  
• Help create a company-wide security strategy with round-the-clock network monitoring
  
• Provide comprehensive Call Center Services
• Help Develop a practical data backup and restore plan built around System Center Data Protection Manager backup technology

Progent's security experts offer world-class support in key areas of network protection that include auditing, firewall/VPN support, and advanced security planning.

System Assessment
Progent's certified security consultants can evaluate the vulnerability of your existing computer security systems through exhaustive remote automated analysis via advanced software tools and proven procedures. Progent's skill in administering this testing saves you time and money and offers an accurate picture of gaps. The knowledge your company is provided can make up the basis of a security plan that can permit your network to run safely and adapt quickly to future threats.

Automated Security Audits
Progent provides expertise in the application of security testing utilities including Microsoft's MBSA and LANguard from GFI for affordably performing a variety of automatic system auditing checks to uncover possible security problems. Progent has extensive knowledge of other network analysis utilities such as NMAP, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye, as well as utilities such as Metasploit, Netcat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to make sense of audit reports and react appropriately.

Progent can help you build protection into your business processes, install auditing tools, plan and deploy a protected network architecture, and recommend policies to maximize the security of your IT system. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to configure a firewall, implement safe remote connectivity to email and data, and integrate VPN. Find out additional information about Progent's network security analysis.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Bundles for Small Businesses
Progent has put together two low-cost security inventory bundles designed to enable small businesses to receive an objective network security evaluation from a certified security consultant. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert runs a comprehensive examination of your network from beyond your company firewall to uncover potential risks in the security posture you expose to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer runs a system scan from a secure machine within your firewall to determine vulnerabilities to internal threats. The two security inventory services are configured and run from a protected remote site. The process is directed by an engineer with high-level security credentials and who produces a report that details and interprets the information captured by the security scan and suggests practical improvements where appropriate.

Network Penetration Analysis Consulting
Stealth intrusion checking is an important component of any successful IT system security strategy. Progent’s security experts can run extensive intrusion checks without the awareness of your organization's internal network support staff. Stealth penetration checking shows whether current security monitoring tools such as intrusion detection alerts and event history monitoring are correctly configured and actively monitored. Find out more concerning Progent's stealth penetration testing support services.

Firewall And Virtual Private Network (VPN) Expertise
Progent's expertise in security technology encompasses in-depth field work with leading firewalls and VPN technology offered by multiple vendors including Cisco, Microsoft, and Symantec. Progent offers the services of consultants with key industry accreditations such as CCIE and Microsoft MCSE.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX 500 Security Appliances Configuration and Troubleshooting
The current ASA 5500-X Family of firewalls with Firepower Services deliver significantly more performance than Cisco's previous PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for new deployments. Since Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole family of Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls can be configured to support Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the world's most deployed intrusion protection system. Firepower services bring enhanced features including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can help you to maintain your current PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances or migrate efficiently to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer online and onsite support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help your business to design, deploy, optimize, manage and troubleshoot firewall environments based around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. See additional details about Cisco ASA Firewalls with Firepower integration and debugging support.

Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Support Services
Cisco's network security and remote connection technology provide a comprehensive range of manageable security solutions to help safeguard your local and remote network infrastructure. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family features switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN appliances. Progent's professional staff of consultants includes experienced specialists with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who are able to help your organization to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security technologies that fit most closely with your business objectives. Find out additional details about Progent's Consulting Expertise for Cisco Security Technology and Virtual Private Network Products.

Consulting Services for Additional Firewall and VPN Products
Progent offers small and medium size organizations professional consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN products from major firewall and Virtual Private Network security companies such as WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, and SonicWall. Progent can show you how to create a detailed security plan and select the right technologies from multiple vendors to achieve your security goals while staying within your budget restraints.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight family of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the entire malware attack lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer economical in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and allows rapid restoration of vital files, apps and VMs that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to restore your critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of leading data security companies to deliver web-based management and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware solution without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting service. 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 allows you to create, maintain, retrieve and protect information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time spent searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require when you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Network Security Planning
Every company ought to have a thoroughly considered security program that includes both proactive processes and reaction planning. The pre-attack plan is a set of procedures designed to reduce security weaknesses. The reactive strategy assists your company's IT security engineers to evaluate the impact caused by an attack, fix the damage, record the experience, and get the IT network operational as quickly as possible.

Progent's certified IS security consultants can to assist you to run a complete risk evaluation and create a computer security strategy to establish security policies and mechanisms to minimize ongoing assaults and threats.

CISM Qualified System Security Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee defines the basic capabilities and worldwide standards of performance that IT security managers are expected to master. It gives executive management the assurance that those who have qualified for their CISM credential possess the background and capability to provide effective security administration and support consulting. Progent offers the support of CISM Premier security professionals to assist companies with:

• IS Security Governance
• Vulnerability Management
• IS Security Implementation Management
• Information Security Administration
• Recovery Management

CISSP Qualified Security Engineering Support
CISSP recognizes expertise with a worldwide standard for information security. The American National Standards Institute has awarded certification recognition in the field of information protection stipulated by ISO 17024. Progent can provide access to of security consultants who have earned CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified professional to help your company in a variety security areas including:

• Security Administration Procedures
• Security Architecture and Models
• Access Control Systems and Methodology
• Software Development Security
• Operations Security
• Site Security
• Cryptography Mechanisms
• Telecommunications, LAN and WAN Security
• Disaster Recovery Preparedness

CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure Network Architecture Engineering Support
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier system architecture engineers are experts who have earned ISSAP status through thorough examination and significant work with information security architecture. The ISSAP credential represents proven competence in the most complex demands of information security architecture bounded by the wider scope of IS security expertise required for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture including.

• Access Control Systems and Techniques
• Phone System and Network Protection
• Data Encryption Options
• Needs Analysis and Security Guidelines
• Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning
• Physical Security

CISA Certified IS Security Auditing Engineering Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a globally recognized achievement that represents mastery in IS security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that candidates pass an extensive examination given by the ISACA professional association. Progent's CISA-certified network security audit specialists can help your IT organization with:

• Information Systems Audit Services
• Information Technology Governance
• Systems and Infrastructure Lifecycle
• Information Technology Service Delivery
• Safeguarding Data Assets
• Business Continuity Planning

CRISC Consultants
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain IS controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to develop and execute a business continuity strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC network risk mitigation engineers offer a range of risk evaluation services such as:

• Gather information and review documentation to help identify major risk scenarios
• Inventory legal, regulatory, and business requirements and organizational policies associated with your information system to determine their possible influence on your business objectives
• Point out possible threats for your operational processes to help in analyzing your corporate risk
• Create a risk awareness initiative and conduct seminars to make sure your stakeholders understand IT risk so they can assist with your risk management process
• Connect key risk vectors to related business processes to help assign risk ownership
• Validate risk tolerance with executive management and key stakeholders to ensure they are in agreement

GIAC Accredited Information System Security Consulting Assistance
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills needed to deliver services in critical categories of network, information, and software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions around the world including and the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent's GIAC network security audit experts can help your business in the areas of:

• Assessing Networks
• Security Incident Handling
• Intrusion Detection
• Web-based Services Security
• Security information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions

Talk to a Certified Security Expert
To learn how to contact a security consultant for remote or onsite expertise in Connecticut, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Remote Network Help.