Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online assistance with network security problems, companies in Manchester New Hampshire can find world-class expertise by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are available to offer efficient and low-cost help with security problems that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's security consultants are premier to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services covers firewall expertise, email security, protected network infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the industry's top security accreditations including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and CISSP.

Progent provides online security support on a per-minute basis without minimum times and without additional charges for setup or after hours service. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where quick fixes result in major charges.

We've Been Attacked: What Should We Do?
In case you are now faced with a security emergency, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Network Help to find out how to get immediate aid. Progent has a team of certified network security specialists who offer online and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies that have planned in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response model promoted by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a major security attack.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Managing network security as well as preparation for recovering critical data and functions following an attack requires a continual program that entails an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's security engineers can support your business at whatever level in your efforts to protect your IT system, from security audits to creating a complete security strategy. Important technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Threats.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Any business should develop a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and responsive elements. The proactive plan is a set of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to assist security staff to inventory the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and revive network activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your business processes. Progent can install auditing software, create and implement a safe IT architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to set up a firewall, deploy secure remote connectivity to e-mail and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an economical way for jobbing out your security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services feature automated remote server monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud-based resources and that comply with regulatory data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in recovering systems and devices that have been hacked, are suspect, or have failed as a result of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to assess the damage resulting from the breach, return your company to normal functions, and retrieve data lost as a result of the event. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a thorough failure analysis by going over activity logs and utilizing other proven assessment tools. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to suggest efficient strategies to avoid or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct an environment compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware removal and recovery services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations 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: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire threat progression including blocking, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for immediate attention. Progent can also help your company to set up and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and allows fast restoration of vital data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can provide world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can help you to recover your critical data. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top data security vendors to deliver web-based control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. For more details, see 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 organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, update, retrieve and safeguard data about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to 50% of time spent searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants offer unique specialized help in vital facets of network security such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a set of comprehensive system scans to identify potential security holes. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar utilities and can assist your company to analyze assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web software validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key industry security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Read more information about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class consulting services for Cisco's entire family of protection and VPN solutions including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Read additional details concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
As well as being expert in a wide range of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes advanced support for technologies from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

CISM Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the fundamental competencies and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information technology security professionals are expected to achieve. It offers business management the confidence that those who have earned their certification have the background and skill to offer efficient security administration and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to help your organization in vital security areas such as data protection governance, risk assessment, information security process control, and incident response management.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's CISM Security Consulting Assistance.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification through verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and test systems, access permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Find out additional details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants have been awarded ISSAP accreditation following thorough examination and substantial experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

Learn additional information about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure System Architecture Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises with the services associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your organization to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce 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 in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that represents expertise in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security professional able to help companies in the areas of IS audit process, IT governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT support, protecting data assets, and business continuity planning.

Read additional information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services.

CRISC-certified Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially auditing your IT management design and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing company-wide security policies.

Learn additional details about Progent's CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Consulting.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver support in critical categories of network, data, and program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the assistance of certified security engineers for all of the security capabilities covered under GIAC certification programs including assessing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your business is located in Manchester New Hampshire and you're looking for computer security consulting, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout New England.