Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote assistance with network security problems, businesses in New York City New York have access to expert support from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online service staff is ready to provide fast and affordable assistance with security crises that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to provide help for environments powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services addresses firewall configuration, email security, secure network design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security credentials including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers online security help on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and no extra charges for sign-up or after hours service. By charging per minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and avoids scenarios where quick solutions turn into big expenses.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your business is now experiencing a security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to learn how to get fast help. Progent has a team of seasoned network security experts who offer online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For businesses who have planned carefully for an attack, the formal incident handling procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a major security penetration.

Overview of Security Services
Managing computer security plus preparation for restoring vital data and systems after an attack requires a continual program that entails a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can assist your business at whatever level in your efforts to safeguard your IT system, ranging from security assessments to designing a comprehensive security plan. Key technologies covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Any business should develop a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and responsive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps that works to minimize security gaps. The post-attack plan defines activities to assist IT personnel to inventory the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and restore business functions as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your business operations. Progent can set up scanning software, create and execute a secure IT architecture, and propose procedures and policies that will enhance the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy secure remote connectivity to email and data, and configure an efficient VPN.

If your company is looking for an affordable option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services feature continual remote server tracking and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has expertise in recovering networks and servers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have ceased to function because of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to assess the losses caused by the attack, return your company to normal functions, and recover information lost as a result of the breach. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a thorough forensic analysis by examining activity logs and using other advanced forensics tools. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend effective measures to avoid or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild a network compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of network management outsourcing 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: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-based AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack lifecycle including filtering, detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific needs and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent can also assist your company to install and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and enables fast restoration of vital data, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver advanced support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services 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 service that uses the technology of top information security companies to deliver centralized control and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

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 secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting solution without a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into 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 makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to 50% of time thrown away searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network 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 making enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants offer world-class specialized help in key areas of computer protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security auditing utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a set of automatic network tests to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has broad skills with these and similar tools and can assist your company to understand audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also offer web application testing and can perform expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important industry security specifications such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless equipment as well as portable devices. Get additional details concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class consulting support for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network products such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Find out more information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
In addition to being expert in a broad array of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes expert support for technologies from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

CISM Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the core competencies and worldwide standards of service that computer security managers are required to master. CISM provides business management the confidence that those who have earned their CISM have the background and knowledge to offer efficient security administration and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM consultant to help your organization in key security areas such as information protection governance, risk management, information protection program control, and incident handling support.

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CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security design and models, connection control systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts have been awarded ISSAP status after rigorous testing and substantial hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive knowledge of access management systems and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

Find out more details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected System Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the services expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity 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 processes in system development, review system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The CISA accreditation is an important achievement that indicates expertise in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant trained to help companies in the fields of information systems audit process, information technology enforcement, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to verify a consultant's ability to design, implement, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to develop and carry out a business continuity strategy based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially auditing your IS management mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for defining security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security experts. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills needed to provide support in important categories of system, data, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the support of certified security engineers for any of the network security disciplines covered under GIAC certification topics such as auditing perimeters, security incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Support
If your company is situated in New York City New York and you want computer security consulting expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.