Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast online help with data security issues, companies in Lawrence Massachusetts can find expert troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote support staff is available to provide effective and affordable help with security emergencies that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's security engineers are premier to support environments based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide range of consulting services encompasses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected network design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the industry's top security credentials including CISM and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers online security support services on a by-the-minute model with no minimum call duration and no extra fees for sign-up or after hours service. By charging per minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses under control and avoids scenarios where simple solutions result in big expenses.

We've Been Attacked: What Should We Do Now?
In case your business is now experiencing a security crisis, visit Progent's Urgent Online Network Help to see how to receive immediate assistance. Progent has a team of certified cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future exploits.

For companies who have planned beforehand for a security breech, the step-by-step incident handling model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a major security attack.

Overview of Security Expertise
Coordinating network protection and preparation for recovering vital data and systems following an attack demands an on-going process involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can help your organization at any level in your efforts to guard your IT network, ranging from security audits to creating a complete security strategy. Important areas supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Protected Environments
Every organization ought to have a carefully considered security plan that includes both proactive and reactive elements. The pre-attack plan is a set of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to help security staff to evaluate the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the experience, and revive business functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your company processes. Progent can install scanning utilities, define and execute a safe network infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will maximize the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design safe remote connectivity to e-mail and data, and install an effective VPN.

If your company is looking for an affordable way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options include non-stop online server tracking and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with government data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in restoring networks and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have ceased to function following a security attack. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage resulting from the assault, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve information compromised owing to the event. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a thorough forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and using other advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend effective measures to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore a network victimized by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the entire threat lifecycle including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and allows rapid recovery of vital data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted due to component failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can help you to recover your critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading information security companies to deliver centralized management and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines 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 fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting provider. 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 a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and protect data about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can save up to 50% of time spent searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require when you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants can provide unique consulting support in vital facets of IT security such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of comprehensive system scans to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with these utilities and can help your company to understand assessment reports and respond appropriately. Progent's security engineers also offer web application validation and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important industry security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Find out the details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Read the details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to supporting a wide array of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes top-level engineering services for technologies from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Consulting
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
CISM defines the core skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that information technology security managers are expected to achieve. It offers executive management the confidence that those who have earned their certification possess the experience and skill to offer efficient security administration and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM support professional to help your organization in critical security disciplines such as data protection governance, vulnerability management, information security program control, and incident response management.

Learn more details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP status as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and test systems, access permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's CISSP Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP status after rigorous testing and substantial hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Find out more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your organization to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

Find out more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a globally recognized achievement that indicates expertise in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that candidates pass a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security engineer able to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit process, information technology administration, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, protecting data resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively evaluating your IS management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Professional Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited professional has the knowledge necessary to provide support in important categories of network, data, and program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions all over the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the help of certified security engineers for all of the security services covered under GIAC certification topics such as assessing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Support
If your organization is located in Lawrence Massachusetts and you need cybersecurity help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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