Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote assistance with data security problems, businesses in New Haven Connecticut can find world-class expertise by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are available to offer fast and affordable assistance with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected network design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's top security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides online security support on a per-minute basis with no minimum minutes and no additional charges for setup or after hours service. By billing per minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses under control and eliminates situations where simple fixes result in big bills.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do?
In case your network is now faced with a security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Online Network Help to find out how to receive fast help. Progent maintains a pool of veteran network security specialists who can provide remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future attacks.

For organizations that have prepared in advance for a security breech, the step-by-step incident handling procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's approved method of responding to a major security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Coordinating network security and preparation for recovering critical data and systems following an attack requires an on-going process involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified experts can assist your business at all levels in your efforts to secure your information system, ranging from security assessments to creating a complete security program. Important areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Based Attacks.

Designing and Building Protected Environments
Any business ought to develop a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and responsive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy specifies procedures to assist IT personnel to inventory the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the experience, and revive business activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning utilities, create and execute a safe network architecture, and propose procedures and policies to maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy safe remote access to e-mail and information, and configure an effective virtual private network.

If you are interested in an economical way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services feature continual online network tracking and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot 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 installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides expertise in recovering systems and servers that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed following a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to determine the damage caused by the assault, restore normal functions, and retrieve information lost owing to the event. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a thorough forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and utilizing a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security problems reduces your downtime and allows Progent to propose efficient measures to avoid or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct an IT network damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior analysis technology to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete threat progression including blocking, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and allows fast recovery of critical data, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of component failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local 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 such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when necessary, can help you to restore your business-critical data. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top data security vendors to provide web-based management and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, see ProSight 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 applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Learn 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 makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time thrown away searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and sharing all documents related to 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 relating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need when you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers offer world-class consulting support in key facets of computer security such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security auditing utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic network scans to reveal possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with scanning utilities and can help you to analyze assessment results and respond appropriately. Progent's security engineers also can perform web application validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key worldwide security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless appliances as well as portable devices. Read additional information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class consulting services for Cisco's entire family of security and VPN products including 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, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Read the details concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
In addition to supporting a broad range of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size top-level engineering services for technologies from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
CISM identifies the fundamental skills and worldwide standards of performance that information security professionals are expected to achieve. CISM provides business management the confidence that those who have been awarded their certification possess the background and knowledge to offer effective security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to assist your enterprise in critical security areas such as information security governance, risk management, data protection process control, and crisis response support.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification through verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include security management procedures, security architecture and models, connection permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP status after thorough testing and substantial experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 security analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Services
The CISA credential is a prestigious qualification that represents expertise in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that consultants pass a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional trained to help companies in the areas of information systems audit process, IT governance, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology support, protecting information assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially assessing your IT management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security engineers. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified professional possesses the skills necessary to provide services in key areas of network, data, and software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the expertise of certified consultants for any of the network security disciplines covered within GIAC certification topics such as assessing perimeters, incident handling, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Help
If your company is situated in New Haven Connecticut and you're trying to find cybersecurity support services, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Connecticut State.