Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online assistance with network security issues, companies in Lawrence Massachusetts have access to world-class support from Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are available to offer fast and low-cost assistance with security crises that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to support systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, and major versions of UNIX. Progent can provide advanced support for critical cybersecurity and recovery solutions like AI-based EDR (End Point Protection and Response), Managed Detection and Response, complete system restore validation, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide array of consulting services encompasses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected system architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers online security help on a per-minute model without minimum minutes and without extra charges for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's billing policy keeps costs low and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes entail big bills.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to work its way across a network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are typically launched on weekends and late at night, when IT personnel are likely to take longer to become aware of a penetration and are least able to organize a rapid and coordinated defense. The more lateral progress ransomware can make inside a victim's network, the more time it takes to restore core operations and scrambled files and the more information can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to guide you to carry out the time-critical first steps in mitigating a ransomware attack by stopping the bleeding. Progent's remote ransomware experts can assist you to locate and isolate breached servers and endpoints and protect clean resources from being penetrated. If your network has been breached by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your business is currently fighting a security crisis other than ransomware, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Support to learn how to receive immediate aid. Progent maintains a team of certified network security specialists who offer remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity posture to guard against future attacks.

For businesses who have prepared carefully for an attack, the formal incident response model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of handling a serious security penetration.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Coordinating network protection as well as staying ready for restoring critical data and systems following a security breach demands a continual effort that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified professionals can support your organization at any level in your efforts to guard your IT network, ranging from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Some areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Networks
Every business ought to have a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive elements. The proactive plan is a set of steps that helps to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan defines procedures to assist IT staff to evaluate the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and revive business activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to build protection into your business processes. Progent can set up scanning software, create and build a safe IT architecture, and recommend processes and policies to enhance the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy safe offsite connectivity to email and information, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an affordable option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages feature automated online server monitoring and immediate resolution of emergencies.

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

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring systems and computers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have failed following a security breakdown. Progent can help determine the losses caused by the assault, restore normal functions, and retrieve data lost as a result of the assault. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a comprehensive forensic analysis by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced assessment techniques. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to propose efficient strategies to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct an information system victimized by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Work-from-Home Security Consulting
Work-from-Home staff members typically utilize their personal devices and often work in a unsecured physical area. This increases their vulnerability to cyber attacks and requires judicious deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, extensive user training, and the creation of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned group of telecommuter support experts can assist you to plan, implement and manage an effective security solution that protects critical IT resources in environments that incorporate remote workers as well as hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management provide businesses of all sizes a versatile and cost-effective alternative for assessing, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking updates to your ever-evolving information system. In addition to maximizing the protection and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services allow your in-house IT staff to focus on line-of-business initiatives and tasks that derive the highest business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's patch management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centric threat management platform that includes computer learning algorithms and expert services to provide comprehensive endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's low-profile software agents can be loaded in a few minutes to protect popular endpoints against increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats such as ransomware, familiar and brand-new malware, trojan viruses, hacking toolkits, memory exploits, malicious scripts, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) abuse. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and reseller and oversees thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne is always the first endpoint response tool deployed by Progent to gain control and visibility of a customer's network at the outset of a ransomware recovery emergency. For additional information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response solutions.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver continuous, simultaneous, programmable assessment of your internal and perimeter network to help you find, prioritize, fix, and verify cybersecurity weaknesses before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically plant so-called tripwires like fake credentials to find out when your network is currently being probed along proven attack vectors. Tripwires generate enough detail to make it possible to react promptly with your SIEM tools and procedures before an attacker can do serious damage. Progent offers the skills of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to use NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your present security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to strengthen your existing network security and can assist you to plan and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides optimum protection for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To learn additional information about Progent's vulnerability assessment services based on on NodeZero's pentest products, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Testing Services
Stealth intrusion checking is an important component of any comprehensive IT system security plan. Progent's security experts can run extensive penetration checks without the awareness of your company's internal network support staff. Stealth penetration testing shows whether current security defense tools such as intrusion incident alerts and event log analysis are properly configured and consistently monitored. Progent can implement ongoing autonomous penetration testing to define your internal and external attack surface and to detect ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, improper configurations, harvested credentials, overlooked patches, and unsound product defaults can be chained together by hackers into the multi-front attacks common to modern strains of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth PEN Testing Experts.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis technology to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to automate the entire malware attack lifecycle including blocking, detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent can also help you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with leading backup/restore product companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a family of offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services automate and monitor your data backup operations and allow transparent backup and rapid restoration of vital files, apps, images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you recover from data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, user error, malicious employees, or software glitches. Managed backup services available in the ProSight DPS portfolio include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can assist you to determine which of these managed services are best suited for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of top information security vendors to provide centralized management and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays within your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a protected online account and enter your password you are asked to verify who you are on a unit that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A wide range of devices can be utilized as this added form of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You can register multiple validation devices. For more information about Duo identity validation services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware environment without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, find and protect data about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time spent looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you're making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants offer world-class consulting support in key areas of network protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with security evaluation tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic system tests to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with these and similar utilities and can help your company to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also offer web software testing and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major industry security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile devices. Learn more details about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth consulting services for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network technologies including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Find out more information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
In addition to supporting a broad range of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes top-level consulting for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Support
• Check Point Consulting
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Support
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Configuration Help
• Symantec Engineering Services

Read more details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services.

CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in an international standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and models, access permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Get additional details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants have been awarded ISSAP certification after rigorous examination and significant experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth understanding of access control systems and methodologies, phone system and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your organization to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, define effective design strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a globally recognized qualification that signifies mastery in information system security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo an extensive test overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security professional able to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, information technology governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Find out more details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise.

CRISC Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and support IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management services are a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially auditing your IT management mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM support professionals for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Consulting Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills necessary to provide support in key categories of system, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the expertise of certified consultants for all of the security capabilities addressed within GIAC accreditation programs such as assessing perimeters, incident response, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your business is located in Lawrence Massachusetts and you need computer security support services, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout New England.