Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast online help with network security problems, companies in Midtown Manhattan New York have access to world-class support by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online support consultants are ready to provide effective and economical assistance with security problems that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's security engineers are certified to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services covers firewall expertise, email security, protected system infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has earned the world's top security credentials including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and ISSAP.

Progent provides remote security expertise on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum call duration and no extra fees for setup or off-hour service. By billing by the minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's billing policy keeps costs low and avoids scenarios where simple solutions entail major charges.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
In case you are currently fighting a network security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Help to find out how to get immediate aid. Progent has a team of seasoned cybersecurity experts who offer online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future exploits.

For organizations that have planned beforehand for an attack, the formal post-attack handling model promoted by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a major security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Managing computer protection as well as preparation for recovering critical data and functions following a security breach requires an on-going effort that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified security engineers can support your organization at any level in your attempt to secure your IT system, from security audits to creating a comprehensive security program. Some areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Building Secure Environments
Every company should develop a carefully considered security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive steps. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to help IT staff to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, remediate the damage, document the experience, and revive business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your business processes. Progent can set up scanning utilities, create and execute a secure computer infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies that will maximize the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy secure offsite access to email and information, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages feature non-stop online system monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud resources and that are compliant with government and industry data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have failed as a result of a security penetration. Progent can help assess the damage caused by the breach, restore ordinary business operations, and recover data lost owing to the event. Progent's security engineers can also manage a thorough forensic analysis by examining event logs and using other advanced assessment techniques. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest effective strategies to prevent or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an IT network compromised by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to manage the complete malware attack progression including protection, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid recovery of vital data, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted due to component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover 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 device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can help you to recover your critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of leading information security companies to deliver web-based control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware environment without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time thrown away searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting 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 the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security engineers offer unique expertise in vital areas of network security such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with information risk auditing tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of automatic network tests to identify possible security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar tools and can help your company to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web software validation and can conduct expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key worldwide security specifications including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless equipment plus portable devices. Read more details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical services for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network products including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn the details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a broad array of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes expert consulting for products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the fundamental competencies and international standards of performance that information security professionals are expected to master. It offers business management the confidence that consultants who have earned their certification have the background and skill to offer efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM expert to assist your organization in critical security disciplines including data security governance, risk management, information security program management, and incident handling management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated experience, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security architecture and models, connection permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants 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 network security design. ISSAP consultants have in-depth knowledge of access control systems and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned 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 can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

Find out the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting Services.

CISA Security Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a prestigious qualification that indicates mastery in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer able to assist companies in the areas of IS audit services, IT governance, network assets and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and maintain information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to develop and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively evaluating your IS management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for defining security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security experts. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified professional has the knowledge necessary to provide support in critical categories of network, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of certified consultants for all of the security disciplines covered within GIAC certification topics including assessing networks, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your business is located in Midtown Manhattan New York and you want computer security consulting expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support in the Greater New York City Metro Area including Stamford, and all of New Jersey.