Small business networks in Connecticut now have prompt and affordable remote technical support from Progent's qualified network security experts to fix the toughest security issues. The cost is reasonable, billing is by the minute, engagement is fast, and service is unbeatable. Progent also offers help for complex engagements that requires the knowledge of senior security consultants with top industry credentials.
In case your Connecticut company is located far from more populated metropolitan areas such as Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford, or Stamford, help from local accredited network security consultants could be limited during a crisis. This could mean lost income for your company, upset customers, unproductive employees, and defocused management. By contacting Progent, you can get in touch with a Certified security professional who can provide assistance whenever you have to have it to get your information system running and recover your data.
Progent can assist you in a variety of ways in your efforts to protect your IT environment with support services that ranges from security checks to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Progent provides affordable service to help small and midsize companies to configure and manage secure networks powered by Windows and Cisco products and that can include servers and desktops running UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple Mac OS X operating systems plus BYOD users with Apple iOS iPhones and iPads or Android or Windows Phone handsets.
Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to guide organizations to carry out the time-critical first steps in responding to a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's online ransomware experts can assist businesses to identify and isolate infected servers and endpoints and protect clean resources from being compromised.
If your network has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's 24-hour Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.
Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Progent can help you outsource spam filtering and defense against email-borne security threats. Email Guard is Progent's email security solution that incorporates the services and infrastructure of leading information security vendors to deliver centralized control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall.
Progent's certified engineers are accessible remotely or on premises to provide a variety of emergency or project-based computer security services such as:
Progent's security experts offer world-class services in vital fields of system security including security assessment, firewalls and VPN, and high-level security consulting.
System Security Evaluation
Progent's certified security engineers can assess the effectiveness of your existing computer protection systems through exhaustive remote automated testing based on sophisticated software tools and tested procedures. Progent's experience in this testing saves you money and offers an accurate picture of system vulnerability. The knowledge your IT organization is provided can make up the foundation of a security strategy that can allow your network to operate safely and adapt rapidly to new threats.
Automated Network Security Audits
Progent provides expertise in the application of security evaluation software including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for affordably performing a set of automatic network testing checks to identify possible security weaknesses. Progent has extensive knowledge of additional network analysis tools including NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye, plus tools like Metasploit, Netcat, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand testing reports and react appropriately.
Progent can show you how to build security into your business operations, install scanning software, plan and deploy a secure system architecture, and recommend policies to maximize the security of your network. Progent's security consultants are able to help you configure a firewall, design secure remote connectivity to email and data, and install virtual private network. Learn more about Progent's automated security audits.
Security Inventory Service Bundles for Small Companies
Progent offers two ultra-affordable security inventory packages intended to enable small businesses to receive a professional network security evaluation from a certified security specialist. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert runs a comprehensive test of your IT infrastructure from beyond your firewall to uncover possible risks in the security profile you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer executes a network scan from a secure computer inside your firewall to determine your exposure to internal threats. The two security inventory packages are configured and run from a secured remote site. The project is managed by a consultant with top security credentials and who generates a report that details and analyzes the information captured by the scan and suggests cost-effective remediation where called for.
Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver repeated, concurrent, automated assessment of your network so you can uncover, rank, fix, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. Progent's pentest experts can assist you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can determine your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to strengthen your existing network security and can help you to plan and deploy a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and delivers optimum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional details about Progent's threat analysis services based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.
Network Penetration Testing Support Services
Stealth intrusion checking is a key component of any successful IT system security strategy. Progent's security experts can perform extensive penetration tests without the knowledge of your company's internal IT staff. Stealth penetration testing shows whether existing security defense systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event history analysis are properly configured and consistently checked. Find out additional information concerning Progent's stealth penetration analysis consulting.
Firewall/VPN Solutions
Progent's background in security technology includes extensive field work with major firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products offered by a variety of companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet. Progent offers the support of engineers who have earned important industry accreditations such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.
Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX Firewalls Configuration and Debugging
The current ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services provide substantially more value than Cisco's legacy PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for new installations. Since Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole family of Cisco ASA 5500-X devices can be provisioned to enable Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the world's most popular intrusion protection system. Firepower services provide powerful new capabilities including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can assist you to maintain your existing PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances and migrate efficiently to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer remote and onsite support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help your business to design, deploy, optimize, administer and troubleshoot firewall environments built around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Learn additional information about Cisco ASA Firewalls with Firepower configuration and troubleshooting services.
Cisco Security and VPN Engineering Expertise
Cisco's security and offsite connection technology provide a complete line of easy-to-administer security products to help safeguard your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's VPN product family includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN concentrators. Progent's professional consulting staff includes field-proven specialists with Cisco's Certified Internetwork Expert and CCNP qualifications who are able to assist your organization to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that fit best with your company goals. Read more details about Progent's Engineering Expertise for Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Products.
Engineering Expertise for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technology
Progent provides small and medium size organizations professional consulting for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN technology from major firewall and Virtual Private Network security vendors including WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, and SonicWall. Progent can help you design a detailed security plan and select appropriate technologies from multiple suppliers to achieve your security goals while staying within your budget restraints.
Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:
ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis tools to defend endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Find out more about Progent's
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique needs and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require urgent attention. Progent can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's
ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and enables fast recovery of vital files, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide world-class support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your critical data. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.
ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of leading information security vendors to deliver centralized control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends 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 business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware environment without a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more 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 allows you to capture, maintain, find and protect data about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to 50% of time thrown away searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you're planning improvements, 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 about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.
Expert Security Consulting
Any company should develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both pre-attack procedures and reaction plans. The proactive strategy is a collection of procedures that help to minimize security weaknesses. The reactive plan helps your company's IT security personnel to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and get the IT network running as soon as possible.
Progent's expert IS security consultants can to help your business to run a full vulnerability evaluation and create a company-wide security strategy to establish security policies and controls to minimize future attacks and dangers.
CISM Accredited System Security Engineering Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) organization describes the core competencies and international standards of skill that IT security managers are required to learn. It provides executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM credential have the experience and capability to provide effective security administration and support consulting. Progent can provide the support of CISM Certified security professionals to help businesses with:
CISSP Accredited Security Consulting Services
CISSP certification denotes expertise with an international standard for data security. ANSI has granted certification recognition in the area of information protection stipulated by ISO/IEC 17024. Progent can provide the services of security consultants who have earned CISSP accreditation. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified expert to help your enterprise in a variety security fields including:
CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure IT Architecture Engineering Services
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier IT architecture engineers are experts who have been awarded ISSAP Certification as a result of rigorous testing and significant experience with network security design. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) certification indicates proven mastery in the more challenging requirements of information security architecture bounded by the wider field of information system security expertise needed for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your business with all aspects of secure network architecture such as.
CISA Qualified Network Security Auditing Consulting Support
The CISA accreditation is a recognized achievement that signifies mastery in information system security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent's CISA-qualified network security audit specialists are available to help your business in the areas of:
Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC-qualified network risk management experts offer a range of risk assessment services such as:
GIAC Qualified Information System Security Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified professional has the skills appropriate to provide services in key categories of system, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions around the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent's GIAC-qualified IS security audit engineers can assist your business with:
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