Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate remote help with network security problems, companies in Toronto Ontario can find expert support by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to provide effective and affordable assistance with security issues that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's security consultants are premier to support environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services covers firewall configuration, email security, secure system design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers remote security support on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum times and no extra charges for setup or after hours service. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where quick fixes result in big charges.

We've Been Attacked: What Should We Do?
In case your network is now experiencing a network security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Computer Help to find out how to get fast aid. Progent has a team of seasoned network security experts who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies who have prepared in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step incident handling model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of responding to a major security penetration.

Overview of Security Services
Managing network security as well as staying ready for recovering vital information and functions after a security breach requires an on-going program that entails an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified security engineers can support your business at whatever level in your attempt to safeguard your IT system, ranging from security audits to creating a comprehensive security plan. Some technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Threats.

Designing and Implementing Protected Networks
Any business should develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack plan is a set of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies procedures to assist IT staff to evaluate the damage caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your business processes. Progent can set up auditing utilities, define and build a safe IT architecture, and propose procedures and policies to optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, design safe offsite access to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If you are interested in an economical way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options feature continual online network tracking and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with regulatory security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and devices that have been hacked, are suspect, or have failed as a result of a security attack. Progent can show you how to determine the damage resulting from the attack, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover information lost owing to the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a comprehensive failure analysis by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of proven assessment techniques. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to recommend effective strategies to prevent or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight line of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates next generation behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to address the complete threat progression including protection, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent can also help your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and enables fast recovery of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to component failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can help you to recover your business-critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of top information security vendors to provide centralized management and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, retrieve and protect data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time wasted looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants offer world-class support in vital areas of IT security such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of comprehensive network tests to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these tools and can assist you to understand audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web software testing and can conduct expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important global security specifications such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Read additional details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth technical services for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Find out more details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
As well as supporting a broad range of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes expert engineering services for products from other popular firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the core competencies and worldwide standards of service that information technology security professionals are required to master. CISM provides executive management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their CISM possess the background and skill to provide efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM consultant to assist your organization in key security areas such as information protection governance, vulnerability management, data security process management, and incident response support.

Find out the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security design and test systems, connection control systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Read more details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification as a result of rigorous testing and extensive experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth understanding of access management systems and methodologies, phone system and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Read additional information concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Architecture Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide large organizations with the services expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your organization to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

Find out more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services
The CISA credential is a globally recognized achievement that represents mastery in information system security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant able to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT support, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and support information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and execute a business continuity strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially assessing your IS management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for defining company-wide security policies.

Learn more information about Progent's CRISC Network Risk Management Consulting.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security engineers. GIAC's mission is to assure that an accredited professional possesses the skills needed to deliver support in important categories of system, information, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the assistance of certified professionals for any of the network security services covered within GIAC certification programs including assessing security systems, incident response, traffic analysis, web 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 business is located in Toronto Ontario and you need network security consulting expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.