Massachusetts Information Assurance, Email Filtering, Business Continuity

Small business computer networks in the state ofMassachusettscan depend on prompt and economical online help from Progent's certified network security consultants to help with urgent security issues. The cost is affordable, billing is per minute, sign-up is quick, and support is world class. Progent also provides assistance for complex projects that demand the knowledge of seasoned security consultants with high-level industry certifications.

If yourMassachusettscompany is situated some distance from larger metropolitan neighborhoods such asBoston, Worcester, Springfield, Lowell, or Cambridge, the availability of nearby accredited security support specialists may be limited during an urgent situation. This can result in a drop in income for your company, upset clients, unproductive workers, and distracted management. By contacting Progent, you have access to a Certified security professional who can offer help whenever you require it to get your system running and salvage your information.

Progent can assist you in all your initiatives to protect your network with support services ranging from security audits to creating a company-wide security plan. Progent provides affordable support to help companies of any size to set up and manage safe networks based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that can include computers running UNIX or Linux operating systems as well as BYOD users with Apple iPhones and iPads or Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.

Progent can also help you outsource spam filtering and protection from email-borne security threats. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption platform that incorporates the services and infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver centralized management and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. ProSight Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also enable Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter.

Progent's certified engineers are accessible remotely or on site to offer a range of urgent or project-based IT security services such as:

• Perform comprehensive security evaluations
• Recuperate rapidly after attacks
  
• Install hardware and software firewalls
• Implement secure methods for remote and mobile access
• Install advanced utilities for protection against viruses, spam and DHAs
  
• Develop a company-wide security strategy with round-the-clock monitoring
  
• Provide outsourced Help Desk Call Center Support
• Help Create a practical data backup and disaster recovery strategy built around Data Protection Manager automated backup capability

Progent's security experts can deliver advanced support in key areas of computer security including auditing, firewalls and VPN, and advanced security planning.

System Evaluation
Progent's expert security engineers can evaluate the strength of your existing network security implementation by performing exhaustive remote automated testing based on advanced utilities and tested techniques. Progent's skill in administering this service saves your company consulting fees and assures an accurate picture of weaknesses. The knowledge your company gains can make up the basis of a security strategy that can permit your information system to run safely and adapt quickly to future risks.

Automated Vulnerability Assessment
Progent provides consulting in the use of security evaluation products including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and GFI LANguard NSS for affordably performing a set of programmed system auditing checks to uncover potential security vulnerabilities. Progent has broad knowledge of additional network analysis utilities such as NMAP, AMAP application mapper, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as utilities such as Metasploit, Netcat, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can help you to make sense of audit reports and respond effectively.

Progent can show you how to build protection into your company operations, configure auditing applications, define and deploy a protected system environment, and suggest policies to optimize the security of your network. Progent's security consultants are ready to help you configure a firewall, design secure remote access to email and data, and install VPN. Find out more about Progent's automated security audits.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Bundles for Small Companies
Progent offers two low-cost security inventory service packages designed to allow small companies to get an impartial security evaluation from a qualified security engineer. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, an engineer administers a comprehensive examination of your network from outside your company firewall to uncover possible risks in the security profile you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer runs a network scan from a secure computer within your company firewall to determine your exposure to internal assaults. Both security inventory packages are configured and run from a protected remote site. The process is managed by an engineer with top security credentials and who generates a document that summarizes and analyzes the information captured by the scan and suggests cost-effective improvements if appropriate.

Stealth Intrusion Testing Support Services
Stealth intrusion checking is an important part of any serious network security plan. Progent’s security experts can run extensive intrusion checks without the knowledge of your organization's in-house network support resources. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether current security defense tools such as intrusion detection warnings and event log monitoring are correctly configured and consistently monitored. Find out additional information concerning Progent's stealth penetration testing consulting.

Firewalls and VPN Support
Progent's expertise in network security solutions encompasses extensive field work with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products from multiple companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, and Juniper. Progent can provide the support of engineers who have earned important networking accreditations such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX Firewalls Configuration and Troubleshooting
The new ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services offer significantly more bang for the buck than Cisco's previous PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX firewalls for new installations. Following Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the entire family of Cisco ASA 5500-X devices can be configured to enable Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the market's most popular network intrusion protection system. Firepower services bring enhanced capabilities such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can help you to maintain your existing PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls and migrate efficiently to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide online and on-premises support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help your organization to plan, deploy, tune, administer and troubleshoot firewall solutions built on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. See more information about Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower Services configuration and troubleshooting services.

Cisco Network Security and VPN Support Services
Cisco's security and remote access technology offer a complete line of manageable security products to help safeguard your local and remote network infrastructure. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family includes switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN appliances. Progent's expert consulting staff includes field-proven specialists with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and CCNP qualifications who can help your company to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that fit best with your business goals. Learn more details about Progent's Consulting Expertise for Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Products.

Consulting Services for Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technology
Progent provides small and mid-size companies professional consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN technology from leading firewall and Virtual Private Network security companies such as Check Point Software, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to design a comprehensive security strategy and choose the right products from a variety of vendors to achieve your security objectives while staying within your budget restraints.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable 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 (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to defend endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to manage the entire threat progression including protection, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Read 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 mid-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and enables fast restoration of vital data, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted due to component breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can provide world-class expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to recover your critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security vendors to provide centralized control and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting environment without a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, find and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time thrown away searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require the instant you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Network Security Planning
Any business should have a thoroughly considered security program that includes both pre-attack processes and reaction plans. The proactive strategy is a collection of procedures that help to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan helps your company's IT security personnel to assess the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and get business functions running as rapidly as possible.

Progent's expert information security engineers can to assist your business to run a full vulnerability evaluation and create a network security plan to implement security policies and mechanisms to mitigate future attacks and dangers.

CISM Qualified Network Security Support Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee describes the core capabilities and international standards of performance that IT security professionals are expected to learn. It gives business management the confidence that those who have earned their CISM credential possess the experience and knowledge to provide effective security administration and support consulting. Progent can provide the expertise of CISM Premier security consultants to help businesses with:

• IS Security Governance
• Vulnerability Management
• IS Security Program Management
• Information Security Management
• Recovery Management

CISSP Qualified Security Consulting Support
The CISSP credential recognizes expertise with a worldwide standard for data security. The American National Standards Institute has granted certification recognition in the area of data protection under ISO 17024. Progent offers the services of security professionals who have qualified for CISSP accreditation. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified consultant to help your enterprise in a variety security fields including:

• Security Management Practices
• Security Architecture and Paradigms
• Access Control Systems and Processes
• Software Development Security
• Operations Security
• Physical Security
• Data Encryption Technology
• Telecommunications, LAN and WAN Security
• Business Continuity Preparedness

CISSP-ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Engineering Expertise
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier network architecture engineers are consultants who have earned ISSAP status as a result of thorough examination and extensive work with information security design. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) certification represents demonstrated mastery in the more in-depth requirements of information system security architecture bounded by the wider field of IS security knowledge required for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your company with all phases of architecture security such as.

• Access Control Mechanisms and Methodologies
• Telecommunications and Network Infrastructure Security
• Data Encryption Solutions
• Needs Analysis and Security Guidelines
• Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and DRP
• Site Security

CISA Certified IS Security Auditing Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a recognized achievement that signifies expertise in network security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent's CISA-qualified security audit engineers can help your IT organization in the areas of:

• IS Audit Services
• Information Technology Enforcement
• Network Assets and Infrastructure Lifecycle
• IT Support
• Safeguarding Data Resources
• Business Continuity Preparedness

CRISC Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to design, implement, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and execute a workplace continuity 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-certified network risk management consultants can provide a range of risk evaluation services such as:

• Collect information and review documentation to identify significant risk scenarios
• Inventory legal, regulatory, and contractual mandates and organizational policies associated with your network to assess their possible influence on your business goals
• Point out possible threats for your operational processes to help in analyzing your enterprise risk
• Develop a risk awareness initiative and conduct seminars to ensure your organization understand information system risk so they can assist with your risk control process
• Connect identified risk vectors to related business processes to help assign risk responsibility
• Validate risk tolerance with your senior leadership and key stakeholders to make sure they are in agreement

GIAC Certified Information System Security Consulting Support
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of network security engineers. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited professional has the knowledge needed to provide services in critical categories of system, data, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC-qualified information security audit specialists can assist your business with:

• Assessing 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 Expert
To find out how you can get in touch with a certified Progent security engineer for remote or onsite support in Massachusetts, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Remote Network Support.