Connecticut Computer Security, Email Filtering, Business Continuity

Business networks in the state of Connecticut can now get quick and economical online technical support from Progent's accredited security consultants to assist with critical security issues. Rates are affordable, charges are per minute, engagement is fast, and service is world class. Progent also offers help for complex engagements that requires the expertise of senior security engineers with high-level security certifications.

If your Connecticut office is away from major urban neighborhoods such as Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford, or Stamford, help from nearby qualified network security support specialists could be problematic when you have a security disaster. This can result in a drop in productivity for your business, angry clients, idle workers, and distracted management. By calling Progent, you can get in touch with a Certified security professional who can deliver help when you need it to keep your system on line and recover your information.

Progent can help you at any level in your initiatives to defend your IT environment with support that ranges from network security assessments to developing a comprehensive security plan. Progent provides economical support to help businesses of all sizes to configure and manage secure networks powered by Microsoft Windows and Cisco technology and that can include computers based on UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X operating systems plus BYOD users with Apple iOS handhelds or Google Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.

Progent can also show you how to outsource spam filtering and defense against email-borne assaults. Email Guard is Progent's email security solution that incorporates the services and infrastructure of leading data security vendors to provide centralized management and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and encryption. The local gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter.

Progent's certified consultants are available online or on site to provide a variety of emergency or project-based computer security services including:

• Perform extensive network security audits
• Recuperate promptly after attacks
  
• Install effective firewalls
• Configure safe techniques for offsite and mobile connectivity
• Install effective solutions for automatic protection against viruses, spam and DHAs
  
• Help create a company-wide security plan with 24x7 network monitoring
  
• Provide outsourced Call Center Support
• Help Create an effective data backup and restore plan built around Microsoft Data Protection Manager backup/restore technology

Progent's security experts can deliver advanced support in vital areas of system security that include analysis, firewalls and VPN, and advanced security planning.

System Security Evaluation
Progent's expert security engineers can assess the effectiveness of your existing computer protection environment through exhaustive remote automated analysis based on advanced software tools and proven techniques. Progent's experience in administering this service saves you time and money and offers a detailed picture of weaknesses. The knowledge your company gains can form the foundation of a network protection strategy that will permit your network to run dependably and respond quickly to new threats.

Automated Network Security Assessment
Progent offers consulting in the application of security testing products including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and GFI LANguard for affordably performing a set of automatic system testing scans to identify potential security vulnerabilities. Progent has broad knowledge of other network auditing products including NMAP, AMAP application mapper, eEye, plus tools such as Metasploit Framework, Netcat, and Nikto. Progent can help you to make sense of audit reports and react appropriately.

Progent can help you build security into your company operations, install auditing applications, define and deploy a protected system architecture, and suggest policies to maximize the security of your IT system. Progent's security engineers are able to assist you to set up a firewall, design secure remote connectivity to email and data, and install virtual private network. Learn more concerning Progent's network security audits.

Security Inventory Service Packages for Small Companies
Progent has put together two low-cost security inventory and evaluation bundles intended to enable small companies to receive an objective security evaluation from a certified security specialist. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, a security engineer administers a comprehensive test of your network from outside your firewalled perimeter to uncover possible risks in the security profile you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer executes a network scan from an authorized computer within your firewall to assess the risk to inside attacks. The two security inventory services are configured and run from a secured remote site. The process is managed by an engineer with high-level security accreditations and who generates a report that summarizes and interprets the data captured by the scan and suggests cost-effective remediation where appropriate.

Network Intrusion Analysis Support Services
Stealth penetration testing is an important component of any serious network security strategy. Progent's security experts can run extensive penetration checks without the awareness of your organization's internal IT resources. Unannounced penetration checking shows whether current security defense systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event history monitoring are properly set up and consistently checked. Learn more about Progent's stealth penetration testing support services.

Firewalls and VPN Support
Progent's background in network security technology includes in-depth field work with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network technology from multiple vendors such as Cisco, Microsoft, and CheckPoint. Progent can provide the services of consultants with important networking accreditations such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX 500 Firewalls Configuration and Troubleshooting
The latest generation of Cisco ASA 5500-X Series of firewalls with Firepower Services offer significantly more performance than Cisco's legacy PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX firewalls for all new installations. After Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole line of Cisco ASA 5500-X devices can be configured to enable Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the world's most deployed network intrusion protection system. Firepower services provide enhanced capabilities including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network experts can assist you to manage your legacy PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances or upgrade to Cisco 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 assist your organization to plan, integrate, tune, manage and debug firewall environments based around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Learn additional details about ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower Services integration and debugging support.

Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Engineering Services
Cisco's network security and offsite connection technology offer a full range of manageable security solutions to help protect your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's VPN product family features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN concentrators. Progent's expert consulting staff includes experienced specialists with Cisco's Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who can assist your business to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that fit most closely with your company goals. Learn additional information concerning Progent's Engineering Services for Cisco Security Technology and VPN Appliances.

Consulting Expertise for Additional Firewall and VPN Products
Progent provides small and medium size businesses professional support for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN technology from major firewall and Virtual Private Network security vendors including WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, and Symantec. Progent can help you create a comprehensive security plan and choose the right products from a variety of vendors to support your security goals while sticking within your budget limits.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete threat lifecycle including blocking, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to install and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack like 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
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and allows fast restoration of critical files, applications and VMs that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver web-based control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting environment without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting service. Learn more details 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 makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and protect data about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save up to half of time wasted trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you're planning improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Security Planning
Every company should develop a carefully thought out security program that incorporates both preventive procedures and reaction plans. The proactive plan is a set of procedures that help to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan assists your company's network security personnel to assess the impact caused by an attack, fix the network, document the event, and get business functions restored as quickly as possible.

Progent's certified information security engineers can to help your company to perform a full vulnerability assessment and define a network security strategy to establish security policies and controls to mitigate future assaults and dangers.

CISM Certified Information Security Engineering Expertise
The CISM organization describes the basic capabilities and international standards of skill that IT security professionals are expected to learn. CISM gives business management the assurance that those who have qualified for their CISM credential have the background and knowledge to provide efficient security management and support services. Progent can provide the expertise of CISM Certified security professionals to help businesses with:

• IS Security Governance
• Risk Analysis
• IS Security Program Management
• IS Security Management
• Response Planning

CISSP Accredited Security Engineering Support
The CISSP credential denotes expertise with a worldwide standard for data security. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of information protection under ISO/IEC 17024. Progent can provide the services of security professionals who have qualified for CISSP certification. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified professional to help your enterprise in a variety security fields such as:

• Security Management Practices
• Security Architecture and Models
• Access Control Solutions and Methodology
• Software Development Security
• Secure Operations
• Physical Security
• Data Encryption Mechanisms
• Telecommunications, Network and WAN Security
• Business Continuity Preparedness

CISSP-ISSAP Accredited Secure IT Architecture Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier information system architecture engineers are consultants who have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of rigorous testing and extensive experience with network security design. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) credential represents proven competence in the more challenging demands of information security architecture bounded by the broader field of information security knowledge needed for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture including.

• Access Management Mechanisms and Methodologies
• Telecom and Network Protection
• Cryptography Solutions
• Needs Analysis and Security Guidelines
• Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
• Hardware Security

CISA Qualified Network Security Auditing Engineering Support
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a recognized qualification that represents expertise in IS security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants pass an extensive test given by the ISACA professional group. Progent's CISA-qualified IS security audit consultants can assist your business with:

• Information Systems Audit Services
• Information Technology Enforcement
• Network Assets and Infrastructure Lifecycle
• IT Support
• Protecting Information Resources
• Business Continuity Preparedness

CRISC Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and maintain information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC network risk management experts can provide a variety of risk identification services including:

• Collect data and review documentation to evaluate major vulnerabilities
• Identify legal, industry, and business mandates and organizational policies related to your network to determine their potential impact on your business objectives
• Point out potential vulnerabilities for your operational processes to help in analyzing your corporate risk
• Develop a risk awareness program and provide training to make sure your stakeholders understand IT risk so they can contribute to your risk control process
• Match key risk vectors to your associated operational procedures to help assign risk ownership
• Determine risk appetite with your senior leadership and major stakeholders to make sure they align

GIAC Qualified Security Engineering Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of computer security experts. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified professional has the knowledge appropriate to provide services in critical areas of network, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and institutions throughout the world including and the United States NSA. Progent's GIAC-qualified security audit engineers can assist your company with:

• Auditing IT Infrastructure
• Security Incident Handling
• Traffic Analysis
• Web Services Security
• Security information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions

Get in Touch with a Certified Progent Security Specialist
To find out how to get in touch with a certified security engineer for online or onsite expertise in Connecticut, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Remote Network Support.