Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online help with data security issues, businesses in New Haven Connecticut have access to expert expertise by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service staff is ready to offer effective and low-cost assistance with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's security consultants are premier to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of consulting services encompasses firewall expertise, email security, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the industry's most advanced security credentials including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers online security support on a per-minute basis with no minimum minutes and without extra fees for sign-up or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's billing model keeps costs low and avoids scenarios where simple fixes entail major charges.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do Now?
If your business is now experiencing a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Support to learn how to receive fast assistance. Progent has a team of certified network security specialists who offer online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to guard against future attacks.

For companies who have prepared beforehand for an attack, the formal post-attack handling model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of handling a major security attack.

Introduction to Security Services
Managing data protection as well as planning for recovering critical information and systems following an attack requires an on-going program involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security experts can support your business at any level in your attempt to protect your IT network, from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security plan. Key areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from Email-Borne Threats.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Every company should develop a carefully thought out security strategy that includes both preventive and responsive steps. The proactive strategy is a set of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies activities to help security personnel to inventory the losses resulting from a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and revive network activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to design security into your business operations. Progent can configure auditing software, create and execute a secure IT architecture, and propose processes and policies to optimize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, design safe remote connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an economical way for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages include automated online system tracking and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in recovering systems and servers that have been hacked, are in question, or have stopped working as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to assess the losses resulting from the breach, restore normal functions, and recover data compromised as a result of the assault. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend efficient strategies to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an environment compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware removal and recovery services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates next generation behavior analysis technology to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to manage the entire threat progression including blocking, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer economical multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and enables fast recovery of vital files, applications and VMs that have become lost or damaged due to component failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide advanced support to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to restore your business-critical data. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading data security vendors to deliver web-based control and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware solution without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, find and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time thrown away searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require when you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants offer unique specialized help in key facets of network protection including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a variety of comprehensive network scans to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has broad skills with these and similar tools and can assist your company to analyze assessment results and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web software testing and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important global security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances plus portable devices. Get the details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class consulting services for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Get more details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and VPN Technologies
In addition to supporting a broad array of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes top-level consulting for solutions from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Support
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the core skills and worldwide benchmarks of performance that computer security professionals are required to master. CISM offers executive management the confidence that those who have earned their accreditation possess the background and skill to provide effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to help your enterprise in vital security areas including information protection governance, vulnerability assessment, data security program management, and crisis handling support.

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CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have earned CISSP certification through verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security architecture and test systems, access permission systems, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation following rigorous examination and extensive experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

Learn more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that indicates mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential has consultants pass an extensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional trained to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit process, IT administration, network assets and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, safeguarding data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially evaluating your IT control design and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for designing company-wide security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited security consultant has the skills necessary to provide support in important categories of system, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified consultants for all of the security disciplines covered within GIAC certification topics such as assessing perimeters, security incident response, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your company is situated in New Haven Connecticut and you need cybersecurity help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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