Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online help with network security issues, companies in Lawrence Massachusetts can find world-class troubleshooting from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are ready to offer effective and affordable assistance with security problems that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to provide help for systems based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad array of consulting services covers firewall configuration, email security, secure network infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security credentials including Global Information Assurance Certification and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides remote security support services on a per-minute basis without minimum times and without additional fees for setup or after hours service. By billing per minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs low and avoids scenarios where simple solutions turn into big bills.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
If you are now experiencing a network security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Online Computer Support to see how to receive immediate assistance. Progent has a pool of veteran cybersecurity specialists who can provide remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future exploits.

For companies that have prepared in advance for an attack, the step-by-step incident response model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security attack.

Overview of Security Support Services
Managing computer protection as well as preparation for recovering vital data and systems after a security breach requires an on-going effort involving an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified consultants can help your organization at all levels in your efforts to safeguard your information network, ranging from security assessments to designing a complete security plan. Some areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Borne Threats.

Planning and Implementing Protected Networks
Any business should develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive elements. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines procedures to help IT staff to inventory the losses resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your business processes. Progent can configure scanning software, define and implement a secure IT infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to enhance the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design protected offsite connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an effective virtual private network.

If you are interested in an affordable way for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages include non-stop online system tracking and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in recovering systems and computers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function as a result of a security attack. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve information lost as a result of the event. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by going over activity logs and using other advanced assessment techniques. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend effective ways to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild a network compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

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

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior analysis technology to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the entire threat lifecycle including filtering, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific needs and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and allows rapid restoration of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

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 technology of top information security vendors to deliver web-based control and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, 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 business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware solution without a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT 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, maintain, retrieve and protect information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can save up to 50% of time spent trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's veteran consultants offer world-class expertise in vital areas of computer protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive system scans to reveal possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with testing tools and can help you to understand audit results and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web software testing and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major global security specifications such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances plus mobile devices. Get additional information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth technical services for Cisco's entire range of security and VPN products such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Read additional information concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a wide array of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size expert engineering services for technologies from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the core competencies and international benchmarks of performance that information security professionals are required to achieve. CISM offers executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their accreditation have the background and knowledge to offer efficient security management and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified expert to help your organization in key security areas such as data security governance, risk management, information security program control, and incident handling support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP status through demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security design and test systems, connection control systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP certification after thorough testing and extensive hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth knowledge of access control mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations with the services expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your organization to utilize modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that signifies mastery in IS security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security professional able to help companies in the fields of IS audit process, IT governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively auditing your IT control design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for defining company-wide security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security engineers. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited professional possesses the knowledge necessary to provide support in key categories of system, information, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified professionals for all of the security capabilities addressed within GIAC certification topics including auditing security systems, security incident response, traffic analysis, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Support
If your company is located in Lawrence Massachusetts and you want computer security expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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