Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online help with data security issues, companies in New Haven Connecticut have access to world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are available to offer fast and affordable help with security crises that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's security engineers are certified to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services encompasses firewall configuration, email security, protected system infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides online security expertise on a per-minute basis without minimum minutes and without additional fees for sign-up or after hours service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where quick fixes entail big bills.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Can We Do?
If your network is currently fighting a network security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Help to learn how to get fast assistance. Progent has a team of veteran cybersecurity experts who offer online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to guard against future exploits.

For companies who have prepared carefully for an attack, the formal post-attack response procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security attack.

Overview of Security Expertise
Coordinating network protection plus preparedness for recovering vital information and functions after an attack demands an on-going process that entails a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified engineers can help your organization at all levels in your attempt to guard your information network, from security audits to designing a comprehensive security plan. Key technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of Email-Based Attacks.

Designing and Building Secure Networks
Any business should have a carefully thought out security plan that includes both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps that works to reduce security gaps. The post-attack plan defines procedures to assist security staff to evaluate the losses caused by a breach, remediate the damage, document the experience, and revive network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to build security into your company operations. Progent can configure auditing utilities, create and build a safe computer architecture, and propose processes and policies that will maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design safe remote access to e-mail and information, and install an efficient 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 network monitoring and fast response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in restoring systems and devices that have been hacked, are in question, or have ceased to function because of a security attack. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage resulting from the attack, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve information compromised as a result of the event. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a thorough forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and utilizing a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to suggest effective ways to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an IT network damaged by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost 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 aspects of information assurance and compliance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to manage the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection regulations. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require urgent action. Progent can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and allows fast restoration of vital files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to component failures, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards such as HIPPA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of leading data security vendors to provide centralized management and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware environment without a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Find out more details 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 allows you to capture, update, retrieve and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time wasted trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require when you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's veteran consultants offer unique support in vital areas of IT protection including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security auditing utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of automatic system scans to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with these tools and can help your company to analyze assessment results and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also provide web software testing and can perform thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key industry security specifications including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Get additional details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and IS routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Learn more information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a broad range of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of any size advanced engineering services for solutions from other popular firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

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

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
CISM identifies the core competencies and international benchmarks of performance that computer security professionals are required to master. It provides executive management the confidence that consultants who have earned their accreditation have the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to assist your enterprise in key security disciplines including data protection governance, risk assessment, data protection program management, and crisis handling support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and test systems, connection permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants have been awarded ISSAP status following thorough examination and significant experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 security analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all critical system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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CISA Security Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a prestigious qualification that signifies expertise in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer able to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, information technology governance, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively auditing your IT control mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited security consultant possesses the skills needed to provide services in vital categories of system, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified professionals for all of the security disciplines covered under GIAC accreditation topics including assessing perimeters, security incident response, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Help
If your organization is situated in New Haven Connecticut and you're looking for cybersecurity consulting, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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