Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate remote assistance with computer security problems, companies in New York City New York can find high-level troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support consultants are ready to provide fast and economical assistance with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's security engineers are premier to provide help for systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and major versions of UNIX. Progent can provide expert support for vital security and restoration solutions such as AI-based EDR (End Point Protection and Response), Managed Detection and Response, full system restore validation, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's wide array of services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected network architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support team has earned the world's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Security Manager and CISSP.

Progent provides remote security expertise on a per-minute basis with no minimum minutes and without extra fees for sign-up or off-hour support. By billing per minute and by delivering world-class help, Progent's billing policy keeps costs under control and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes turn into big expenses.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way across a network. For this reason, ransomware attacks are commonly launched on weekends and late at night, when IT personnel are likely to take longer to recognize a breach and are least able to mount a quick and forceful defense. The more lateral progress ransomware can manage inside a target's system, the longer it will require to recover basic operations and scrambled files and the more information can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to help you to carry out the urgent first steps in responding to a ransomware attack by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware experts can assist businesses to locate and quarantine breached devices and guard undamaged assets from being compromised. If your network has been breached by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
If you are currently faced with a network security crisis other than ransomware, visit Progent's Emergency Online Technical Support to find out how to get fast assistance. Progent has a team of seasoned cybersecurity specialists who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to guard against future attacks.

For organizations who have planned beforehand for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack response model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security attack.

Overview of Security Expertise
Coordinating data security plus staying ready for restoring critical information and systems following a security breach demands an on-going program involving a variety of tools and processes. Progent's security professionals can assist your business at any level in your attempt to guard your information network, from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Key technologies covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Borne Threats.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Every company ought to have a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both proactive and responsive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a set of precautions that works to minimize security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to help IT personnel to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning utilities, create and implement a secure network infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies that will optimize the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design safe offsite connectivity to email and data, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options feature non-stop online network tracking and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud hosted infrastructure and that are compliant with regulatory data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in restoring networks and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working following a security breakdown. Progent can help evaluate the damage resulting from the assault, return your company to ordinary business operations, and retrieve information lost owing to the attack. Progent's certified specialists can also oversee a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over activity logs and utilizing other advanced forensics tools. Progent's background with security problems reduces your downtime and permits Progent to recommend effective ways to avoid or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to rebuild an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Cybersecurity Solutions
Work-from-Home workers commonly use their personal computers and often operate in a unsecured physical space. This situation multiplies their susceptibility to malware threats and calls for judicious deployment of firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive user training, and the development of security policies based on best practices. Progent's veteran roster of Work-from-home support experts can help you to plan, configure and manage a compliant cybersecurity solution that protects critical information assets in networks that include remote workers and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management provide businesses of any size a versatile and affordable alternative for assessing, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your dynamic information system. Besides optimizing the protection and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your in-house IT team to focus on line-of-business initiatives and activities that deliver maximum business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centered cyberthreat defense platform that features AI software and advanced services to provide comprehensive endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's compact software agents can be loaded in minutes to defend popular endpoints against increasingly sophisticated assaults such as ransomware, known and new malware, trojan viruses, hacking tools, RAM exploits, script misuse, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and dealer and manages thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne Singularity is invariably the initial incident response software deployed by Progent to provide control and visibility of a customer's network at the outset of a ransomware emergency. For more information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response (XDR) consulting.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports repeated, concurrent, programmable testing of your network to help you find, rank, remediate, and confirm security vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically deploy decoys called tripwires like fake credentials to detect whether your network is currently being targeted across various attack vectors. Tripwires generate sufficient information to make it possible to react promptly with your incident response tools and procedures before an attacker can do serious damage. Progent can provide the skills of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can help you to deploy NodeZero to perform comprehensive penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your current security profile. Progent can also help you to strengthen your existing network security and can help you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To find out more information about Progent's vulnerability assessment services based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Products.

Stealth Penetration Security Testing Services
Stealth penetration testing is a key component of any overall IT system security strategy. Progent's security experts can perform extensive intrusion checks without the knowledge of your organization's in-house IT resources. Unannounced penetration checking uncovers whether current security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event history analysis are correctly set up and actively monitored. Progent can provide continuous automatic penetration testing to define your internal and external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, improper configurations, stolen credentials, missing patches, and dangerous product defaults can be combined by hackers into the multi-vector attacks common to modern strains of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth PEN Testing Experts.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis tools to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape legacy signature-based AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire threat lifecycle including filtering, identification, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require urgent action. Progent can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
Progent has worked with leading backup/restore product companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of subscription-based offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services automate and track your data backup operations and enable non-disruptive backup and rapid restoration of important files, apps, system images, and VMs. ProSight DPS helps your business avoid data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, human mistakes, malicious insiders, or application bugs. Managed services in the ProSight Data Protection selection include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent expert can help you to determine which of these fully managed backup services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver web-based control and world-class security for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo MFA managed services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity verification on iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, when you log into a secured online account and enter your password you are asked to verify your identity via a device that only you have and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of devices can be used for this second form of authentication such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may designate several validation devices. For more information about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware environment without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, retrieve and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time spent looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you're making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require as soon as you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers can provide world-class support in vital facets of network security such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a set of automatic network tests to reveal potential security problems. Progent has extensive experience with these and similar utilities and can assist your company to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web software validation and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important global security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment plus portable devices. Find out more details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class consulting support for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Read additional information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and VPN Technologies
In addition to supporting a broad range of network security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size advanced engineering services for solutions from other popular firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Support
• Check Point Support
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Read more information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP certification as a result of verified experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and test systems, access control methodology, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts have earned ISSAP status after rigorous testing and significant experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, develop effective design strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

Learn the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Expertise
The CISA credential is a recognized achievement that represents mastery in IS security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer able to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, information technology enforcement, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT support, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and execute a business continuity strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially auditing your IT management design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for designing security policies.

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GIAC Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited professional possesses the knowledge appropriate to deliver support in vital areas of system, data, and program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions around the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the help of certified consultants for all of the network security services addressed within GIAC certification programs including auditing IT infrastructure, incident handling, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in New York City New York and you want computer security support services, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.