Small business networks in the state of Connecticut can now get quick and affordable online help from Progent's qualified security experts to assist with critical security problems. Rates are reasonable, billing is by the minute, engagement is immediate, and service is world class. Progent also provides help for long-term engagements that demand the expertise of seasoned security consultants with high-level security credentials.
In case your Connecticut business is based outside of major urban neighborhoods such as Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford, or Stamford, access to nearby certified security support specialists could be problematic when you have a security disaster. This can cause lost revenue for your business, upset customers, idle workers, and defocused management. By contacting Progent's remote support, you have access to a Certified security professional who can provide help when you have to have it to get your information system running and restore your data.
Progent can assist you in your efforts to defend your information system with support ranging from security audits to developing a company-wide security strategy. Progent offers economical support to assist businesses of all sizes to configure and manage protected networks based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that may include computers running UNIX or Linux platforms plus mobile clients with Apple iPhones and iPads or Google Android or Windows Phone handsets.
Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist organizations to carry out the urgent first steps in responding to a ransomware assault by containing the malware. Progent's online ransomware engineers can assist you to identify and quarantine infected devices and protect undamaged assets from being compromised.
If your network has been breached by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's 24x7 Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.
Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Progent can show you how to outsource spam filtering and defense against e-mail-based assaults. Email Guard is Progent's email security solution that incorporates the technology of leading information security vendors to provide web-based management and world-class security for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall.
Progent's security professionals are accessible online or on premises to offer a variety of emergency or project-based network security services which include:
Progent's engineers provide world-class services in key fields of network security that include auditing, firewall and VPN expertise, and advanced security consulting.
Security Audits
Progent's expert security consultants can assess the strength of your current computer security environment by performing exhaustive remote automated analysis via sophisticated utilities and tested techniques. Progent's experience in administering this testing saves you money and assures an accurate portrayal of gaps. The information your company gains can make up the foundation of a security plan that can allow your network to run safely and adapt quickly to future risks.
Automated Network Security Assessment
Progent provides consulting in the application of security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner for affordably running a variety of programmed network auditing checks to uncover potential security vulnerabilities. Progent has extensive experience with other network analysis products such as NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP application mapper, eEye, as well as utilities such as Metasploit Framework, Netcat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to make sense of audit reports and react appropriately.
Progent can show you how to design protection into your business processes, install auditing applications, define and implement a protected system environment, and recommend procedures to maximize the safety of your IT system. Progent's security engineers are available to help you configure a firewall, implement safe remote connectivity to email and data, and integrate virtual private network. Find out more about Progent's automated security assessment.
Security Inventory Scanning Packages for Small Companies
Progent has put together two low-cost security inventory and evaluation packages intended to allow small companies to get a professional network security evaluation from a qualified security consultant. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, a security engineer administers a comprehensive examination of your IT infrastructure from outside your firewall to uncover possible weaknesses in the security posture you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer runs a system scan from an authorized computer within your company firewall to determine vulnerabilities to internal assaults. Both security inventory packages are configured and run from a secured remote site. The process is overseen by a consultant with high-level security credentials and who generates a report that summarizes and interprets the data captured by the scan and proposes practical improvements where appropriate.
Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, concurrent, programmable assessment of your network to help you uncover, rank, remediate, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to use NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your network perimeter and your internal network so you can determine your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To learn more information about Progent's vulnerability analysis services powered by on NodeZero's PEN test platform, visit Consulting Support for NodeZero's Pentest Products.
Network Intrusion Testing Support Services
Stealth intrusion checking is a key part of any serious IT system security plan. Progent's security professionals can run extensive penetration tests without the awareness of your company's in-house IT resources. Stealth penetration checking uncovers whether existing security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident alerts and event log monitoring are correctly configured and consistently checked. Find out additional information concerning Progent's network penetration testing support services.
Firewall/VPN Solutions
Progent's expertise in security solutions includes in-depth field work with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology offered by a variety of companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, CheckPoint and Watch Guard. Progent offers the support of engineers who have earned important networking accreditations including Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).
Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX 500 Firewalls Integration and Debugging
The latest generation of ASA 5500-X Family Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services provide substantially more bang for the buck than Cisco's legacy firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX security appliances for new installations. Since Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole line of Cisco ASA 5500-X devices can be configured to enable Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the world's most popular network intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services provide powerful new features including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network experts can assist you to maintain your legacy PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 security appliances and migrate to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer remote and on-premises help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help your business to plan, deploy, tune, manage and troubleshoot firewall environments built around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Find out additional details about ASA Firewalls with Firepower Services integration and debugging services.
Cisco Network Security and VPN Consulting Services
Cisco's network security and remote connection technology offer a comprehensive range of manageable security products to help safeguard your local and remote network infrastructure. Cisco's VPN line features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN appliances. Progent's expert consulting staff includes experienced specialists with Cisco CCIE and CCNP qualifications who are able to help your company to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that align most closely with your company goals. Learn more details concerning Progent's Consulting Expertise for Cisco Security Solutions and Virtual Private Network Products.
Consulting Expertise for Other Firewall and VPN Technology
Progent provides small and medium size companies professional consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN solutions from leading firewall and VPN security companies including Check Point Software, Juniper Networks, and Symantec. Progent can help you design a detailed security plan and select the right products from multiple vendors to achieve your security goals while staying within your budget limits.
Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by traditional signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire malware attack lifecycle including blocking, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Learn more about Progent's
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection regulations. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require urgent action. Progent can also assist your company to install and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's
ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and allows fast recovery of vital data, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged due to hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.
ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security companies to deliver web-based management and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays within your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.
ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.
ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, find and protect information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time wasted searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you're planning improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need when you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.
Expert Security Planning
Any company should develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both pre-attack processes and reaction plans. The proactive strategy is a set of mechanisms intended to minimize security weaknesses. The post-attack plan helps your company's network security personnel to evaluate the damage caused by a security penetration, repair the damage, record the experience, and get the IT network restored as soon as feasible.
Progent's certified IT security engineers can to assist your business to run a complete vulnerability assessment and create a computer security strategy to establish security processes and controls to reduce future assaults and threats.
CISM Accredited Security Support Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee describes the core capabilities and international standards of skill that IT security managers are required to master. CISM gives executive management the confidence that those who have qualified for their CISM credential possess the experience and knowledge to deliver efficient security management and consulting services. Progent offers the support of CISM Certified security professionals to assist companies with:
CISSP Certified Security Engineering Expertise
CISSP certification denotes expertise with a global standard for network security. The American National Standards Institute has awarded certification recognition in the area of data security under ISO/IEC 17024. Progent offers access to of security professionals who have qualified for CISSP certification. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified expert to help your organization in a variety security areas such as:
CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure IT Architecture Engineering Services
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier IT architecture engineers are experts who have earned ISSAP Certification through thorough testing and extensive work with network security design. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) credential indicates demonstrated competence in the most in-depth demands of information system security architecture within the broader scope of information system security knowledge required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your company with all phases of secure network architecture including.
CISA Qualified IS Security Auditing Consulting Support
The CISA accreditation is an important qualification that indicates expertise in information system security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo an extensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent's CISA-certified information security audit engineers can help your company with:
Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and execute a workplace continuity plan based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC-certified network risk mitigation experts offer a range of risk identification services including:
GIAC Certified IS Security Engineering Support
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security engineers. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited professional possesses the knowledge necessary to provide services in critical categories of network, information, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including and the United States NSA. Progent's GIAC IS security audit experts are available to help your company in the areas of:
Contact a Certified Security Specialist
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