Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast remote help with data security problems, companies in Montreal Québec can find expert troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are available to offer effective and low-cost assistance with security problems that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's security engineers are premier to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad array of consulting services addresses firewall configuration, email security, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has earned the world's top security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides online security support on a per-minute model without minimum call duration and without additional charges for setup or off-hour support. By charging per minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses low and avoids scenarios where simple solutions turn into big bills.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
If you are currently faced with a network security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Network Support to learn how to receive fast aid. Progent maintains a pool of veteran network security specialists who can provide online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to guard against future attacks.

For organizations who have planned beforehand for a security breech, the formal incident handling model promoted by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a major security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Managing computer protection as well as preparedness for recovering critical data and functions following an attack demands a continual process that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified professionals can assist your organization at any level in your efforts to protect your information network, from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security program. Important areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Networks
Every business should develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive activity. The pre-attack plan is a collection of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies activities to help IT personnel to assess the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore network functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your business processes. Progent can set up auditing utilities, create and implement a secure computer architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, design protected online and mobile connectivity to email and information, and install an effective VPN.

If your company is looking for an economical way for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages feature non-stop remote system tracking and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with government security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in recovering systems and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have ceased to function following a security breach. Progent can help evaluate the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover data lost owing to the assault. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by going over activity logs and utilizing a variety of proven assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to recommend effective measures to prevent or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network monitoring and management 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: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to address the entire malware attack lifecycle including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's unique needs and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and enables rapid recovery of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top data security vendors to deliver centralized management and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

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 fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware environment without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time wasted trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security consultants offer unique expertise in vital facets of computer protection such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a set of comprehensive system scans to uncover potential security holes. Progent has broad skills with these utilities and can assist your company to understand audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web application testing and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key global security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Get more information about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical services for Cisco's complete range of security and VPN solutions such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn the details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a wide array of network security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes advanced engineering services for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services
CISM defines the basic competencies and worldwide standards of performance that IT security professionals are expected to achieve. It provides business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their CISM possess the background and knowledge to provide effective security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to help your organization in critical security areas such as data protection governance, risk assessment, information protection process management, and incident handling management.

Find out the details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Assistance.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP accreditation as a result of verified experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and test systems, connection control systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have earned ISSAP certification as a result of rigorous examination and extensive experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth understanding of access management systems and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

Find out additional information about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected System Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 network security consultant to help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is an important qualification that signifies expertise in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that consultants pass an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant able to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, IT administration, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology support, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

Read more information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Expertise.

CRISC Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and support IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially auditing your IS control design and with the services of Progent's CISM support professionals for implementing security policies and procedures.

Learn more details concerning Progent's CRISC Risk Mitigation Support.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited professional has the knowledge needed to deliver support in vital categories of system, data, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations around the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified professionals for any of the network security disciplines addressed within GIAC accreditation topics such as assessing networks, security incident response, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

Learn additional details about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your company is located in Montreal Québec and you're looking for computer security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Montreal Metro Area.