Massachusetts Network Security, Email Filtering, Business Continuity

Small business networks in the state ofMassachusettscan now get prompt and economical online access to Progent's qualified security consultants to assist with urgent security problems. The cost is reasonable, billing is by the minute, engagement is fast, and support is world class. Progent also offers help for complex projects that demand the expertise of seasoned security consultants with top security credentials.

In case yourMassachusettsorganization is some distance from major metropolitan neighborhoods likeBoston, Worcester, Springfield, Lowell, or Cambridge, help from nearby accredited security consultants is often problematic during a security disaster. This can cause lost revenue for your business, angry clients, idle workers, and defocused executives. By calling Progent, you can get in touch with a Premier security professional ready to offer expertise whenever you have to have it to keep your system operating and salvage your data.

Progent can assist you in your initiatives to guard your IT environment with support ranging from network security audits to creating a comprehensive security plan. Progent provides affordable service to assist small and midsize companies to set up and maintain safe networks based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that may include computers based on UNIX or Linux platforms plus mobile clients with Apple iOS iPhones and iPads or Google Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.

Progent can also help you outsource spam filtering and protection from e-mail-based security threats. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption platform that uses the services and infrastructure of top data security companies to provide centralized management and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. ProSight Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks most threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the local gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also enable Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall.

Progent's security experts are available remotely or on site to offer a variety of urgent or longer-term IT security services such as:

• Perform thorough security audits
• Clean up rapidly after attacks
  
• Configure hardware and software firewalls
• Configure safe methods for offsite and mobile access
• Install advanced solutions for protection against viruses, spam and directory harvest attacks
  
• Help create a company-wide security strategy with proactive security monitoring
  
• Provide outsourced Call Center Services
• Create an effective network backup and business continuity strategy based on System Center Data Protection Manager backup/restore technology

Progent's engineers provide world-class support in vital fields of network protection including auditing, firewall and VPN solutions, and advanced security consulting.

System Evaluation
Progent's expert security consultants can evaluate the vulnerability of your existing computer protection environment by performing comprehensive remote automated analysis via sophisticated software tools and proven procedures. Progent's experience in administering this testing saves you time and money and assures an accurate portrayal of system vulnerability. The information your business is provided can form the basis of a network protection plan that will allow your information system to run dependably and respond quickly to future risks.

Automated Security Assessment
Progent provides expertise in the use of security auditing packages including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and GFI LANguard NSS for affordably performing a set of automatic network testing checks to uncover possible security weaknesses. Progent has broad knowledge of other network auditing products such as NMAP, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye, as well as utilities such as Metasploit Framework, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can help you to understand audit reports and react effectively.

Progent can show you how to design security into your company operations, configure auditing applications, define and implement a protected network environment, and suggest procedures to maximize the safety of your IT system. Progent's security professionals are able to help you configure a firewall, implement safe remote access to email and data, and integrate virtual private network. Find out additional information about Progent's automated security analysis.

Security Inventory Scanning Bundles for Small Companies
Progent offers two ultra-affordable security inventory and evaluation bundles intended to enable small companies to get an independent security assessment from a qualified security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, a security expert runs a comprehensive test of your network from outside your firewall to determine potential weaknesses in the security profile you expose to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert executes a system scan from a secure machine within your company firewall to assess vulnerabilities to internal threats. Both security inventory packages are set up and run from a protected external site. The project is overseen by an engineer with top security accreditations and who produces a report that summarizes and interprets the data collected by the security scan and proposes practical remediation if called for.

Network Security Penetration Analysis Consulting
Stealth penetration checking is a key component of any serious IT system security plan. Progent’s security experts can run extensive penetration tests without the knowledge of your organization's internal network support staff. Stealth penetration checking shows whether existing security defense tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event log analysis are properly configured and actively checked. Find out additional information concerning Progent's stealth penetration testing consulting.

Firewalls and VPN Support
Progent's expertise in network security technology includes extensive familiarity with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products from multiple vendors including Cisco, Microsoft, and Symantec. Progent offers the support of consultants with key industry certifications including Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX Security Appliances Configuration and Troubleshooting
The new ASA 5500-X Family Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services offer substantially more value than Cisco's earlier PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for all new installations. After Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the entire family of Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls can be configured to support Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the market's most popular network intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services provide enhanced capabilities including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can assist you to manage your current PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 security appliances and upgrade to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer online and on-premises help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help your business to plan, integrate, optimize, manage and troubleshoot firewall environments built around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Find out more information about ASA Firewalls with Firepower integration and troubleshooting support.

Cisco Network Security and VPN Engineering Expertise
Cisco's security and offsite connection products represent a full range of easy-to-administer security solutions to help protect your local and remote information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN concentrators. Progent's expert consulting staff includes field-proven engineers with Cisco CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who can assist your business to select Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that fit most closely with your company goals. Learn more information concerning Progent's Engineering Expertise for Cisco Security Solutions and Virtual Private Network Appliances.

Engineering Expertise for Other Firewall and VPN Products
Progent offers small and medium size businesses expert consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN technology from leading firewall and VPN security companies including WatchGuard, Juniper, and SonicWall. Progent can help you create a comprehensive security strategy and choose appropriate technologies from a variety of vendors to achieve your security goals while staying within your budget restraints.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of network monitoring and management 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 and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to manage the entire threat progression including filtering, detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique needs and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require immediate action. Progent can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of vital data, applications and VMs that have become lost or corrupted due to hardware breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware 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 virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can assist you to recover your critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading information security companies to provide web-based management and world-class security for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a further level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

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 critical servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting environment without a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single 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 an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, find and safeguard data related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time spent trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require when you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Network Security Planning
Any business ought to have a carefully thought out security program that incorporates both pre-attack processes and response plans. The proactive strategy is a set of procedures intended to minimize security weaknesses. The post-attack strategy assists your security personnel to assess the damage resulting from a security penetration, repair the damage, document the experience, and get the IT network running as quickly as feasible.

Progent's certified information security engineers can to help your company to perform a full risk evaluation and define a network security strategy to establish security policies and mechanisms to minimize ongoing attacks and threats.

CISM Qualified Network Security Consulting Assistance
The CISM committee defines the core capabilities and international standards of performance that information security managers are required to learn. CISM gives executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM credential have the background and capability to provide effective security management and support consulting. Progent offers the expertise of CISM Premier security professionals to help businesses with:

• Network Security Governance
• Risk Management
• Information Security Implementation Management
• Information Security Administration
• Response Management

CISSP Certified Security Consulting Services
CISSP certification denotes mastery of a global standard for data security. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) has granted the CISSP credential recognition in the area of data protection under ISO/IEC 17024. Progent can provide access to of security experts who have qualified for CISSP accreditation. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified professional to help your organization in a variety security fields such as:

• Security Management Practices
• Security Architecture and Models
• Access Management Solutions and Methodology
• Applications Development Security
• Secure Operations
• Site Security
• Data Encryption Technology
• Telecom, Network and WAN Security
• Disaster Recovery Planning

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure IT Architecture Consulting Assistance
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified network architecture professionals are experts who have earned ISSAP status as a result of thorough testing and extensive work with information security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) certification represents proven skill in the more complex requirements of information system security architecture bounded by the wider scope of information security knowledge needed for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your company with all phases of architecture security such as.

• Access Management Mechanisms and Techniques
• Telecom and Network Infrastructure Security
• Data Encryption Solutions
• Requirements Evaluation and Security Guidelines
• Business Continuity Planning and DRP
• Hardware Security

CISA Accredited Network Security Auditing Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important qualification that represents mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has candidates pass an extensive examination given by the ISACA professional group. Progent's CISA security audit consultants can help your IT organization in the areas of:

• IS Audit Services
• IT Governance
• Network Assets and Infrastructure Planned Useful Life
• IT Service Delivery
• Safeguarding Information Resources
• Business Continuity Preparedness

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Experts
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC IT risk mitigation experts offer a range of risk evaluation services such as:

• Collect information and review documentation to identify major vulnerabilities
• Identify statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements and organizational policies related to your network to assess their potential influence on your strategic goals
• Identify potential vulnerabilities for your business processes to help in analyzing your enterprise risk
• Develop a risk awareness program and conduct training to make sure your organization understand IT risk so they can contribute to your risk control process
• Connect identified risk scenarios to your associated operational procedures to help determine risk responsibility
• Validate risk tolerance with your senior leadership and major stakeholders to ensure they match

GIAC Qualified IS Security Engineering Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified professional possesses the skills appropriate to provide services in critical categories of network, data, and software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including and the United States NSA. Progent's GIAC-qualified security audit engineers can help your IT organization in the areas of:

• Auditing Networks
• Security Incident Handling
• Traffic Analysis
• Web Application Security
• Security information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions

Get in Touch with a Certified Progent Security Expert
To learn how to contact a certified security consultant for remote or on-premises support in Massachusetts, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Remote Network Help.