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ProSight Active Security Monitoring and Ransomware Protection
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring services incorporate behavior-based detection technology from SentinelOne to provide endpoint and server protection from modern malware attacks such as ransomware, which have demonstrated the ability to evade legacy, signature-based anti-virus defenses. ProSight ASM gives small and mid-sized organizations access to the same threat protection platform used by leading enterprises including Walmart, Netflix, Visa, Citi, NASDAQ, Salesforce and others. By delivering real-time threat prevention, detection, removal and recovery in one unified package, ProSight ASM cuts ownership costs, simplifies management, and speeds up recovery. SentinelOne's next-generation endpoint protection (NGEP) technology used by ProSight ASM was rated by Gartner Group as the most visionary Endpoint Protection Platform in the industry. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator.
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring services utilize a low-overhead agent installed on each protected endpoint and server to build a cohesive security grid that responds to threats at machine speed and allows coordinated and decisive incident response featuring:
- Protection for Windows, Mac OS X and macOS, Linux, iOS and Android endpoints and servers
- Support for Windows Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, and Citrix XenServer virtual environments
- Deep system-level monitoring
- Signature-less machine learning and intelligent automation
- Behavioral analysis and detection of advanced attacks across all vectors
- Full remediation with auto-removal of detected attacks
- Single-click rollback from ransomware and other attacks
- Automatic, network-wide immunization
- Real-time visualization of the attack storyline for comprehensive forensics
- Unified control via a single management console
- HIPAA and PCI certification
Progent offers ProSight Active Security Monitoring as a low-cost, flat-rate monthly service. A software-only EPP solution, ProSight ASM requires no special hardware or other costly upfront investment. ProSight ASM can provide protection for both on-premises and cloud-based resources. In the event that you suffer an attack, Progent is qualified to act as your red team to help you use ProSight ASM to contain and remove the threat, assess the damage, rollback your network to a healthy state, and understand the source and spread of the malware.
ProSight Active Security Monitoring and the Modern Threat Landscape
97% of data breaches could have been prevented by current security technology, but some successful attacks are inevitable. Sometimes the crooks win. ProSight Active Security Monitoring is designed around the premise that even with the best security technology, you may eventually suffer a breach. For this reason ProSight ASM not only provides malware blocking based on traditional static, signature-based prevention, but also dynamic detection of malware and exploits that have penetrated your network, fast isolation of infected devices, automatic removal of threats, near real-time immunization of all endpoints, single-click recovery (such as a rollback to a pre-ransomware state), and rich forensics to help you understand and eliminate your vulnerability.
By offering best-of-breed technology for before, during and after an attack, ProSight ASM delivers an end-to-end solution for addressing the realities of the modern security landscape and minimizing or eliminating financial, productivity and reputation loss in case of a breach.
Endpoints are the most vulnerable and most frequently targeted component of an information network. ProSight Active Security Monitoring services offer a single, integrated platform to manage the entire threat lifecycle including protection, detection, response and remediation. Threats addressed by ProSight ASM include:
- File-based malware such as ransomware, trojans, worms, backdoors and payload-based attacks
- File-less and memory-only malware with no disk-based indicators
- Document-based exploits embedded in Office and Adobe files, and macros
- Phishing and spear phishing emails (which account for over 90+ of successful data breaches)
- Browser-based attacks rooted in drive-by downloads, Flash, Java, Javascript, VBS, IFraME.htmL5, and plug-ins
- Live attacks based on scripts like PowerShell, Powersploit, WMI, and VBS
- Credential-based attacks including credential-scraping, Mimikatz, and tokens
Traditional anti-virus tools use signature matching as their main defense. A unique file hash, or signature, is generated for each known threat, and potential threats are checked against a continually updated table of signatures. The flaw in this approach is that the speed and volume of new threats far outpace the anti-virus industry's ability to generate and distribute signatures. In contrast, modern behavior analysis looks at the activities of a potential threat and determines whether it behaves abnormally. For example, does it impact a large number of processes? Does it alter the registry? Does it install a keystroke logger? In essence, behavior analysis uses suspicious activities to create a kind of meta signature that can't be changed by a hacker simply by altering a few irrelevant bytes of code to escape detection.
Prevention: Before the Attack
With nation-state intelligence agencies joining the ranks of professional and amateur hackers, new malware is being developed far faster than the ability of anti-virus providers to write new signatures. The limitations of signature-matching endpoint protection has been recognized since around 2012 and its inadequacy is now an accepted tenet of IT security.
ProSight ASM utilizes low-overhead cloud intelligence and reputation services from multiple vendors to filter known malware. Deep file inspection plus dynamic blacklisting and whitelisting help make ProSight ASM a significant improvement over legacy anti-virus platforms, but prevention is only the first line of defense. Advanced exploits, file-less malware and script-based attacks can sneak past signature-matching barriers. For example, so-called "packers" compress code to disguise malware data so it can't be read by security researchers or malware blocking programs.
Detection and Response: During the Attack
The second phase of endpoint protection involves dealing with malware while it is executing. ProSight ASM uses next-generation endpoint protection (NGEP) technology to detect malicious behavior from any malware that gets through the automated blacklisting process. Even in the case of advanced file-less malware such as application and memory-based attacks, the malicious code must perform certain recognizable activities (e.g., creating an executable file without permission) if it is to compromise data. ProSight ASM's lightweight agent watches all activity in each protected endpoint and uses state-of-the-art behavioral threat analysis and full execution context to identify new attacks at inception. When an attack is discovered, ProSight ASM immediately disconnects the affected device from the network to contain the threat. Because the ProSight ASM agent is autonomous, devices stay protected even when they are not connected to the Internet.
Remediation: After the Attack
Once an attack is contained, ProSight ASM begins policy-based mitigation. When you use ProSight ASM in conjunction with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service, modifications to data made by the malware attack can be rolled back automatically with a single click. ProSight ASM also logs whatever system-level files and settings were changed by the attack and what were remediated. Whenever ProSight ASM detects a new malicious binary, the threat is flagged and all protected agents on the network are immediately immunized against the attack. In addition, the ProSight ASM management console provides in-depth forensics, which include a clear visualization of the attack's progress through the network from inception to termination. This real-time audit trail of what happened during the attack exposes weaknesses that need to be addressed in your security strategy and answers questions like: How did the attack enter our network? Which employee or guest opened the malware file? What did the malware change on our network?
Download the ProSight Active Security Monitoring Datasheet
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Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring Services Datasheet. (PDF - 89 KB)
Other ProSight Managed Services Available from Progent
In addition to ProSight Active Security Monitoring, Progent's ProSight suite of network management services includes other budget-friendly, flat-rate managed services that address key aspects of your IT network including backup and disaster recovery, network infrastructure monitoring and management, and email content filtering. By partnering with some of the industry's most innovative technology vendors, Progent can offer small and mid-size organizations the benefits of the same advanced technology used by the world's largest enterprises. Managed services offered by Progent include:
- ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection and Exchange Email Filtering
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent'sProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering. - ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery Services
Progent has partnered with leading backup/restore technology companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a selection of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). ProSight DPS products manage and track your data backup processes and allow transparent backup and fast recovery of critical files/folders, apps, system images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets your business protect against data loss resulting from hardware breakdown, natural disasters, fire, malware such as ransomware, user error, ill-intentioned employees, or application glitches. Managed services available in the ProSight Data Protection Services product line include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Total Backup (formerly Altaro 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent expert can help you to determine which of these managed services are most appropriate for your IT environment. - ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering and Data Leakage Protection
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of leading data security vendors to deliver web-based management and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering. - ProSight WAN Watch: Infrastructure Remote Monitoring and Management
Progent's ProSight WAN Watch is an infrastructure management service that makes it easy and inexpensive for small and mid-sized organizations to diagram, monitor, reconfigure and debug their networking appliances such as routers and switches, firewalls, and load balancers as well as servers, endpoints and other devices. Incorporating cutting-edge Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) technology, ProSight WAN Watch ensures that network maps are always current, copies and manages the configuration information of virtually all devices connected to your network, tracks performance, and sends alerts when problems are discovered. By automating time-consuming management processes, ProSight WAN Watch can cut hours off common chores such as making network diagrams, reconfiguring your network, finding devices that need important software patches, or resolving performance bottlenecks. Learn more about ProSight WAN Watch infrastructure management services. - ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Remote Monitoring and Management
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent's server and desktop monitoring service that uses advanced remote monitoring and management (RMM) techniques to keep your IT system running at peak levels by checking the state of vital computers that drive your business network. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers a problem, an alert is transmitted immediately to your designated IT staff and your Progent engineering consultant so any looming issues can be resolved before they can impact your network. Find out more about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop monitoring consulting. - ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size 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 experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services. - ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, find and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time spent trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you're making enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service. - Active Defense Against Ransomware: AI-based Ransomware Detection and Cleanup
Progent's Active Defense Against Ransomware is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates next generation behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade legacy signature-based anti-virus products. Progent ASM services safeguard on-premises and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to address the complete malware attack progression including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Read more about Progent's ransomware protection and recovery services. - Progent's Outsourced/Shared Call Desk: Help Desk Managed Services
Progent's Help Center managed services allow your information technology staff to offload Support Desk services to Progent or split activity for Service Desk support seamlessly between your in-house support staff and Progent's extensive roster of certified IT support technicians, engineers and subject matter experts (SMEs). Progent's Shared Service Desk offers a smooth extension of your in-house network support staff. User interaction with the Service Desk, delivery of support services, escalation, ticket creation and updates, efficiency metrics, and management of the service database are cohesive regardless of whether incidents are taken care of by your corporate IT support resources, by Progent's team, or both. Read more about Progent's outsourced/co-managed Service Center services. - Patch Management: Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management provide businesses of all sizes a versatile and cost-effective alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting software and firmware updates to your dynamic information system. Besides optimizing the security and functionality of your IT network, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT team to focus on more strategic projects and activities that deliver the highest business value from your information network. Find out more about Progent's patch management services. - ProSight Duo Multi-Factor Authentication: Access Security, Endpoint Policy Enforcement, and Protected Single Sign-on
Progent's Duo authentication service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, when you log into a protected application and enter your password you are requested to verify your identity via a device that only you have and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide selection of devices can be utilized as this second form of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You can register multiple verification devices. For details about ProSight Duo identity validation services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for access security. - ProSight Reporting: In-depth Reporting for Ticketing and Network Monitoring Applications
ProSight Reporting is an expanding family of real-time management reporting plug-ins designed to integrate with the top ticketing and remote network monitoring programs such as ConnectWise Manage, ConnectWise Automate, Customer Thermometer, Auvik, and SentinelOne. ProSight Reporting uses Microsoft Graph and utilizes color coding to highlight and contextualize critical issues such as inconsistent support follow-through or endpoints with out-of-date AVs. By identifying ticketing or network health problems clearly and in near-real time, ProSight Reporting enhances network value, reduces management hassle, and saves money. For more information, see ProSight Reporting for ticketing and network monitoring platforms.
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10 Benefits of Managed IT Services. (PDF - 710 KB)
ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits are a quick and low-cost alternative for small and mid-size organizations to get an unbiased assessment of the health of their IT system. Based on some of the leading remote monitoring and management tools available, and supervised by Progent's certified group of IT professionals, ProSight Network Audits help you see how closely the deployment of your core infrastructure devices adhere to best practices. The Basic and Advanced options for ProSight Network Audit services are available at a budget-friendly, one-time cost and provide instant ROI such as a more manageable Active Directory system. Both also include one year of advanced remote network monitoring and management (RMM). Advantages can include lower-cost network management, better compliance with information security regulations, more efficient utilization of network assets, faster troubleshooting, more reliable backup and restore, and less downtime. Learn more information about Progent's ProSight Network Audits IT infrastructure assessment.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report service is a low-cost service based on a brief interview with a Progent backup/recovery consultant. The fact-finding interview is designed to evaluate your company's ability to defend against ransomware or recover rapidly after an attack by a ransomware variant like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Conti or Egregor. Progent will consult with you directly to gather information about your existing antivirus tools and backup system, and Progent will then deliver a custom Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how you can follow industry best practices to build an efficient security and backup environment that reduces your exposure to ransomware and meets your business requirements. For details, refer to The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service.
The Progent Advantage
Progent's team of more than 100 consulting professionals includes certified experts in every aspect of information technology related to small and mid-size businesses. With this breadth of expertise, Progent can be your one-stop source for integrating a comprehensive security solution that delivers immediate business value. In addition to the endpoint protection provided by ProSight Active Security Monitoring, Progent offers other managed services and specially-priced service packages designed to help small and mid-size businesses to deploy, validate, and manage networks that feature enterprise-class information assurance and low total cost of ownership (TCO).
Besides the ProSight suite of ongoing network management services, Progent offers specially priced one-time service bundles to help organizations of any size to achieve and demonstrate compliance with regulatory and industry security standards. These value-priced services include security vulnerability assessment and stealth penetration testing. Progent also offers expert disaster recovery planning consulting and business continuity planning consulting to help ensure you can return to operations quickly in case of a catastrophic failure due to a natural disaster, fire, cyber attack, human error, equipment breakdown, or any other foreseeable disruptive event.
Progent has expertise in all the endpoints, servers and virtual machines that can be protected by ProSight Active Security Monitoring and offers services that include Windows 11 planning and migration consulting, Windows 10 integration, Linux support, Mac OS X and macOS consulting, iPhone and iPad configuration, Android integration, Windows Server 2022 integration expertise, Windows Server 2019 migration consulting, Hyper-V virtualization support, and VMware vSphere consulting. For single-click or manual rollback capability, Progent's Windows Server consultants can help you set up Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). Progent can also provide online and onsite access to certified Cisco CCIE consultants to help you plan, protect or troubleshoot your network infrastructure. If your network incorporates cloud resources, Progent offers the guidance of Microsoft Azure consultants, Amazon AWS experts, and Google Cloud integration consultants.
Contact Progent about ProSight Active Security Monitoring Services
To find out more about how Progent can help you set up an affordable, fully managed endpoint security solution with ProSight Active Security Monitoring, call
Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line: Call 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line is intended to assist you to carry out the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware attack by putting out the fire. Progent's online ransomware expert can assist you to locate and quarantine infected devices and protect undamaged resources from being compromised. If your system has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800. For more information, see Progent's Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line.
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Juniper SSG Series Firewall Consulting
Juniper SSG Firewall Security Consultancies
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Ransomware Recovery Preparedness Audit Consultancy
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Progent's ProSight Network Audits are a quick and affordable way for small and medium-size organizations to obtain an objective evaluation of the health of their information system. Based on a selection of the top remote monitoring and management tools available, and overseen by Progent's world-class group of information technology experts, ProSight Network Audits show you how closely the deployment of your core infrastructure devices adhere to industry leading practices. Both the Basic and Advanced options for ProSight Network Audit services are offered at a budget-friendly, one-time cost and deliver immediate benefits like a cleaner and safer Active Directory implementation. Both options also provide the ongoing advantages of state-of-the-art remote network monitoring and management (RMM) technology. These advantages can include simpler network management, improved compliance with information security requirements, higher utilization of IT resources, faster problem resolution, more dependable backup and recovery, and less downtime.
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