Small business networks in Connecticut can now get fast and affordable remote help from Progent's accredited network security experts to resolve the toughest security problems. Rates are reasonable, charges are per minute, sign-up is fast, and service is unbeatable. Progent also provides help for complex engagements that requires the knowledge of seasoned security engineers with high-level industry credentials.

In case your Connecticut network is some distance from more populated urban neighborhoods including Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford, or Stamford, support from nearby accredited security support specialists is often problematic during an emergency. This can result in a loss of revenue for your company, upset customers, idle workers, and distracted executives. By calling Progent's remote support, you have access to a Premier security engineer ready to deliver expertise whenever you have to have it to keep your information system on line and recover your data.

Progent can assist you at any level in your efforts to defend your IT environment with support services ranging from network security audits to creating a company-wide security strategy. Progent offers economical service to help small and midsize companies to configure and maintain protected IT environments based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that can include servers and desktops running UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple Mac OS X platforms as well as mobile clients with Apple handhelds or Android or Windows Phone handsets.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to assist organizations to carry out the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware attack by stopping the bleeding. Progent's remote ransomware experts can assist businesses to identify and isolate breached servers and endpoints and guard undamaged assets from being penetrated.

If your network has been breached by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get help quickly by calling Progent's 24-hour Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Progent can assist you to outsource spam filtering and defense against e-mail-based attacks. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption solution that incorporates the technology of top data security companies to deliver centralized control and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and encryption. The local security gateway can also enable Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays inside your security perimeter.

Progent's security consultants are available remotely or on site to provide a range of urgent or project-based computer security services which include:

  • Perform thorough network security audits
  • Recuperate promptly after serious security breaches
  • Install firewalls from multiple vendors
  • Configure secure techniques for remote and mobile connectivity
  • Install advanced software for defense against spam and directory harvest attacks
  • Help create a company-wide security plan with proactive monitoring
  • Provide comprehensive Help Desk Call Center Services
  • Create a practical network backup and business continuity solution based on Data Protection Manager backup technology
If your network has an urgent need for IT security support, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Support.

Progent's engineers offer world-class services in vital facets of network security including security evaluation, firewall/VPN support, and advanced security planning.

System Assessment
Progent's certified security engineers can evaluate the vulnerability of your existing computer protection systems through comprehensive remote automated testing based on sophisticated utilities and tested procedures. Progent's skill in this service saves your company consulting fees and assures an accurate portrayal of gaps. The information your company is provided can form the basis of a security plan that can permit your network to run dependably and respond rapidly to future risks.

Automated Security Audits
Progent provides consulting in the application of security testing utilities including Microsoft's MBSA and GFI LANguard for economically performing a variety of programmed system auditing checks to identify possible security weaknesses. Progent has broad knowledge of other network auditing products including NMAP, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as utilities like Metasploit Framework, Netcat, and Nikto. Progent can help you to make sense of audit reports and respond appropriately.

Progent can help you design security into your business processes, install scanning software, define and implement a secure network architecture, and recommend procedures to optimize the security of your IT system. Progent's security professionals are available to help you configure a firewall, design secure remote access to email and data, and install virtual private network. Learn additional information concerning Progent's automated security audits.

Security Inventory Bundles for Small Businesses
Progent has put together two ultra-affordable security inventory scanning bundles intended to allow small businesses to get a professional network security assessment from a qualified security engineer. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, an engineer runs a comprehensive examination of your network from outside your company firewall to uncover possible weaknesses in the security posture you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert runs a network scan from an authorized computer inside your firewall to assess vulnerabilities to inside assaults. Both security inventory packages are configured and executed from a secured remote site. The process is overseen by an engineer with top security accreditations and who generates a document that summarizes and analyzes the data collected by the security scan and suggests cost-effective remediation if called for.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports continuous, concurrent, programmable assessment of your network so you can uncover, rank, fix, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent can help you to deploy NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your current security posture. Progent can also help you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and delivers optimum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To learn additional details about Progent's threat assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's penetration test platform, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Stealth Intrusion Testing Support Services
Stealth penetration checking is an important component of any comprehensive IT system security plan. Progent's security experts can perform extensive penetration checks without the knowledge of your organization's in-house network support resources. Stealth penetration checking shows whether current security monitoring systems such as intrusion detection alerts and event history monitoring are properly set up and consistently monitored. Find out additional information on Progent's stealth penetration testing consulting.

Firewalls and VPN Solutions
Progent's expertise in network security technology includes extensive familiarity with leading firewalls and VPN products offered by multiple vendors such as Cisco, Microsoft, CheckPoint and Fortinet. Progent offers the support of consultants who have earned key industry accreditations including Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft MCSE.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX Security Appliances Integration and Troubleshooting
The latest generation of ASA 5500-X Family Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services deliver significantly more value than Cisco's legacy PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX firewalls for all new deployments. Since Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the entire family of Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls can be provisioned to support Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the market's most deployed network intrusion protection system. Firepower services bring powerful new features including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can help you to maintain your existing PIX or ASA 5500 firewalls or migrate to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide remote and on-premises support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help you to design, configure, optimize, administer and troubleshoot firewall solutions based on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Read more information about ASA Firewalls with Firepower Services integration and debugging services.

Cisco Security and VPN Engineering Expertise
Cisco's network security and remote connection technology provide a comprehensive range of easy-to-administer security products to help safeguard your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's VPN line includes switches, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN concentrators. Progent's professional consulting staff includes experienced specialists with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and CCNP certifications who can assist your company to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that fit most closely with your company goals. Read more information about Progent's Engineering Services for Cisco Security Technology and VPN Appliances.

Engineering Services for Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
Progent offers small and mid-size organizations professional support for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN technology from leading firewall and VPN security vendors including Check Point Software, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to design a detailed security strategy and choose the right technologies from a variety of vendors to support your security objectives while staying within your spending limits.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations 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 (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to manage the entire threat progression including blocking, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require urgent action. Progent can also help you to set up and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and enables fast restoration of critical files, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-premises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the technology of leading data security companies to deliver centralized management and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, find and protect data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to half of time spent looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you're making improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Network Security Design
Every company should have a carefully thought out security strategy that includes both preventive procedures and reaction plans. The pre-attack strategy is a set of mechanisms intended to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan helps your security engineers to assess the damage caused by a security penetration, fix the network, record the experience, and get business functions operational as quickly as feasible.

Progent's certified IT security engineers are available to help your company to perform a complete risk assessment and define a computer security strategy to implement security processes and controls to minimize ongoing attacks and dangers.

CISM Qualified System Security Engineering Assistance
The CISM committee describes the basic capabilities and worldwide standards of performance that IT security professionals are required to master. CISM gives business management the confidence that those who have earned their CISM certification have the experience and capability to provide effective security management and consulting services. Progent can provide the services of CISM Certified security professionals to assist businesses with:

  • Information Security Strategies
  • Risk Analysis
  • Information Security Program Management
  • Information Security Management
  • Recovery Planning
Find out additional information about Progent's CISM Qualified Security Consulting Services.

CISSP Qualified Security Engineering Expertise
The CISSP credential denotes mastery of a worldwide standard for network security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of data security under ISO 17024. Progent can provide access to of security experts who have qualified for CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified professional to help your organization in a broad range of security fields such as:

  • Security Administration Procedures
  • Security Architecture and Paradigms
  • Access Control Solutions and Methodology
  • Software Development Security
  • Operations Security
  • Physical Security
  • Cryptography Mechanisms
  • Telecommunications, Network and Internet Security
  • Business Continuity Preparedness
Learn additional details about Progent's CISSP Cybersecurity Support Professionals.

CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure System Architecture Engineering Services
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified information system architecture engineers are consultants who have been awarded ISSAP status through rigorous examination and extensive experience with network security design. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) certification indicates proven skill in the more in-depth demands of IS security architecture within the broader scope of information system security knowledge required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture such as.

  • Access Management Mechanisms and Methodologies
  • Phone System and System Infrastructure Security
  • Cryptography Solutions
  • Needs Evaluation and Security Standards
  • Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
  • Hardware Security
Learn more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Support Professionals.

CISA Qualified Network Security Auditing Engineering Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a recognized qualification that indicates expertise in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has candidates pass an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent's CISA security audit engineers can assist your business with:

  • Information Systems Audit Services
  • Information Technology Governance
  • Systems and Infrastructure Planned Useful Life
  • IT Service Delivery
  • Protecting Information Assets
  • Disaster Recovery Preparedness
Learn additional details concerning Progent's CISA Certified Network Security Auditing Consulting Support.

CRISC Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and execute a business continuity strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC-qualified IT risk mitigation specialists can provide a range of risk evaluation services including:

  • Collect data and review documentation to evaluate major risk scenarios
  • Inventory legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements and company policies associated with your network to assess their potential influence on your strategic objectives
  • Identify possible vulnerabilities for your operational workflows to help in analyzing your enterprise risk
  • Develop a risk awareness program and provide seminars to make sure your organization understand IS risk so they can contribute to your risk control process
  • Connect identified risk scenarios to your associated operational procedures to help determine risk ownership
  • Determine risk appetite with your senior management and major stakeholders to ensure they align
Learn the details about Progent's CRISC Risk Management Consultants.

GIAC Qualified Security Consulting Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security professionals. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified professional possesses the knowledge needed to provide support in critical areas of system, data, and software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and government organizations all over the world including and the United States NSA. Progent's GIAC information security audit experts are available to help your IT organization with:

Read more details concerning Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Contact a Security Specialist
To learn how you can get in touch with a Progent security engineer for online or on-premises expertise in Connecticut, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Online Computer Support.

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