Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast online help with computer security problems, companies in Midtown Manhattan New York can find world-class expertise by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote support staff is ready to provide effective and affordable assistance with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's accredited security engineers are certified to support environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected network architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent offers remote security assistance on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum call duration and no extra fees for setup or after hours service. By charging by the minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses low and avoids scenarios where quick fixes entail major bills.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
If you are now fighting a security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Help to learn how to receive fast assistance. Progent maintains a pool of veteran cybersecurity experts who offer online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to guard against future exploits.

For organizations that have planned in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of responding to a major security incident.

Overview of Security Support Services
Managing computer protection and staying ready for restoring critical data and functions following an attack demands an on-going effort involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's security experts can support your business at whatever level in your efforts to protect your information system, ranging from security evaluation to designing a complete security strategy. Some technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Every business ought to develop a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive elements. The pre-attack plan is a collection of precautions that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy specifies activities to assist security personnel to inventory the losses caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the experience, and revive business functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to build security into your business processes. Progent can install auditing utilities, create and execute a safe IT infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy secure remote access to email and information, and install an efficient VPN.

If you are interested in an affordable option for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages feature continual remote system tracking and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with government data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in restoring systems and devices that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have stopped working because of a security penetration. Progent can help evaluate the losses resulting from the assault, restore ordinary functions, and recover data lost owing to the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a thorough forensic analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing other proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security issues reduces your downtime and allows Progent to recommend efficient measures to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an information system compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete threat progression including protection, detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for immediate action. Progent can also help your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and enables rapid recovery of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

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 top information security companies to provide web-based management and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more details, visit 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 or mid-size organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware solution without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting service. Find out 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 allows you to create, update, retrieve and protect information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require when you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants can provide world-class expertise in key areas of IT security including:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with security auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of comprehensive network scans to uncover possible security holes. Progent has broad experience with these and similar tools and can assist your company to understand assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web software validation and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key global security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless appliances as well as portable devices. Find out the details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's complete range of security and VPN solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Find out more information concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
As well as supporting a wide array of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes expert support for technologies from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Support
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the fundamental competencies and worldwide standards of performance that information security professionals are expected to master. CISM provides executive management the confidence that those who have earned their CISM have the experience and skill to offer effective security management and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM consultant to help your enterprise in vital security areas such as data security governance, vulnerability management, information protection program control, and crisis response management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and models, access permission 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 security experts have been awarded ISSAP status after thorough testing and extensive experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a prestigious qualification that indicates expertise in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an extensive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, information technology governance, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and support IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively assessing your IT management design and with the services of Progent's CISM experts for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security engineers. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited security consultant possesses the skills appropriate to provide support in key areas of network, information, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and institutions throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified professionals for any of the network security services covered under GIAC accreditation programs including assessing networks, security incident response, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your business is situated in Midtown Manhattan New York and you're looking for network security engineering help, telephone 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.