Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online help with data security issues, businesses in Montreal Québec can find expert support from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are available to provide effective and economical assistance with security issues that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's security consultants are certified to support systems based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected network infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security credentials including CISM and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides online security support services on a by-the-minute model without minimum call duration and no additional fees for setup or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses under control and avoids scenarios where quick fixes result in major bills.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your network is now experiencing a network security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Help to see how to receive fast aid. Progent maintains a team of veteran network security experts who can provide remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future exploits.

For organizations who have prepared in advance for a security breech, the step-by-step incident handling model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security penetration.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating network security and planning for restoring critical data and systems after a security breach demands an on-going program that entails an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified security engineers can support your business at all levels in your attempt to safeguard your information network, ranging from security assessments to creating a complete security plan. Important technologies covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Threats.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Every business ought to have a carefully thought out security strategy that includes both proactive and responsive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps that works to minimize security gaps. The reactive strategy specifies activities to help IT personnel to evaluate the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and restore network activity as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your company processes. Progent can set up auditing utilities, define and build a secure network infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies that will maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected remote connectivity to email and information, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an affordable option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages feature automated remote server tracking and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud-based resources and that comply with government security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in recovering systems and servers that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed following a security breach. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage caused by the assault, restore normal business operations, and recover information compromised owing to the event. Progent's security engineers can also manage a comprehensive failure analysis by going over event logs and using a variety of proven assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to suggest efficient ways to prevent or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an information system victimized by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior analysis tools to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to automate the entire malware attack progression including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered 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 economical multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent can also help you to set up and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and allows rapid restoration of critical files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged due to component breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide world-class support to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver web-based management and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting solution without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, find and protect information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can save up to half of time wasted searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need as soon as you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security consultants can provide world-class specialized help in key facets of IT security such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with security evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of automatic network scans to identify possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with scanning utilities and can help your company to understand audit results and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web software testing and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major worldwide security specifications such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Learn more information about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network technologies including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Get more details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and VPN Technologies
In addition to supporting a wide range of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes expert engineering services for products from other popular firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

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

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the core competencies and international standards of service that IT security managers are expected to achieve. It offers executive management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their certification possess the experience and skill to provide effective security management and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to assist your enterprise in vital security disciplines including data security governance, vulnerability assessment, data protection program management, and crisis handling support.

Learn more details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security architecture and models, access control methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants have earned ISSAP status after thorough testing and extensive experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Get additional information concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected Network Infrastructure Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

Find out the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

CISA Security Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a recognized qualification that represents expertise in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has candidates undergo a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant trained to help businesses in the areas of IS audit services, IT administration, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology support, protecting information assets, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Services.

CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and support information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management expertise is complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively auditing your IT management design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security experts. GIAC's goal is to assure that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to provide services in vital areas of network, information, and program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations around the world including U.S. NSA. Progent offers the support of certified security engineers for all of the network security disciplines addressed under GIAC certification topics such as assessing security systems, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your company is located in Montreal Québec and you need network security engineering help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.