Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote assistance with data security issues, businesses in Manchester New Hampshire have access to world-class support by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support staff is available to provide efficient and low-cost assistance with security crises that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's security consultants are premier to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent can provide advanced support for vital cybersecurity and restoration solutions including AI-driven EDR (End Point Protection and Response), MDR (Managed Detection and Response), complete system restoration validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide range of services covers firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure system design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and ISSAP.

Progent provides remote security assistance on a per-minute model without minimum minutes and no additional charges for setup or after hours service. By charging by the minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's billing model keeps expenses under control and eliminates situations where simple fixes turn into big bills.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way across a network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are commonly unleashed on weekends and at night, when support personnel are likely to be slower to become aware of a break-in and are least able to mount a quick and forceful response. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to manage inside a victim's system, the longer it takes to restore basic operations and scrambled files and the more information can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to help you to carry out the time-critical first phase in responding to a ransomware assault by stopping the bleeding. Progent's online ransomware engineers can assist businesses to locate and isolate breached servers and endpoints and guard clean resources from being compromised. If your system has been breached by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

We've Been Hacked: What Should We Do?
In case your network is now faced with a security emergency other than ransomware, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Support to learn how to receive immediate aid. Progent has a pool of seasoned cybersecurity experts who can provide remote and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity posture to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have planned in advance for an attack, the formal incident response model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Managing network protection plus planning for restoring vital information and functions following a security breach requires an on-going effort that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified engineers can assist your business at all levels in your attempt to secure your information system, ranging from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security program. Key areas supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Any company should develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and reactive elements. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that helps to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan specifies activities to help IT personnel to evaluate the losses resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore business activity as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your company operations. Progent can install auditing utilities, create and execute a safe network infrastructure, and propose processes and policies to enhance the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, deploy secure remote connectivity to email and data, and configure an efficient VPN.

If you are looking for an affordable option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services feature continual remote network tracking and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have ceased to function following a security penetration. Progent can help assess the losses resulting from the attack, restore normal business operations, and recover data lost as a result of the event. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a comprehensive failure analysis by going over event logs and using other proven assessment techniques. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to recommend efficient strategies to prevent or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Work-from-Home Cybersecurity Expertise
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members commonly use their own devices and often work in a poorly secured physical space. This multiplies their vulnerability to malware threats and requires careful deployment of corporate firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, extensive end-user education, and the development of policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran group of Work-from-home solutions consultants can help you to design, deploy and manage a compliant security solution that guards critical IT resources in networks that include remote workers as well as hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of any size a versatile and affordable solution for assessing, validating, scheduling, implementing, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic information network. In addition to optimizing the protection and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's patch management services allow your in-house IT team to concentrate on line-of-business initiatives and tasks that deliver the highest business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centered threat defense platform that includes computer learning software and expert services to provide comprehensive endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's small-footprint agents can be installed in minutes to defend popular endpoints against modern threats including ransomware, known and brand-new malware, trojan viruses, hacking tool sets, memory exploits, malicious scripts, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) abuse. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and reseller and manages thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is always the initial endpoint response tool deployed by Progent to provide control and visibility of a customer's system in the first stages of a ransomware emergency. For more details, see 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) platform that supports repeated, concurrent, programmable testing of your network to help you uncover, rank, remediate, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically plant decoys called tripwires like fake files or credentials to detect whether your system is being probed across key attack vectors. Tripwires provide sufficient information to allow you to take action promptly with your SIEM workflows before an assailant can do serious damage. Progent can provide the support of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can help you to use NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your network perimeter and your internal network so you can determine your present security profile. Progent can also help you to strengthen your network security and can help you to plan and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To learn more details about Progent's vulnerability assessment services based on on NodeZero's PEN test products, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.

Stealth Penetration Security Assessment Services
Stealth penetration checking is a key part of any comprehensive network security plan. Progent's security experts can run extensive penetration checks without the knowledge of your company's in-house network support resources. Stealth penetration checking uncovers whether current security monitoring systems such as intrusion detection warnings and event log monitoring are properly set up and actively monitored. Progent can implement continuous automatic PEN testing to define your internal and external attack surface and to identify ways that vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, compromised credentials, overlooked patches, and ill-advised IT product defaults can be combined by hackers into the multi-vector attacks common to the latest versions of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth Penetration Intrusion Evaluation Consultants.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. 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 (EPP) service that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior analysis tools to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to address the complete threat progression including filtering, detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with advanced backup/restore product companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS products automate and track your backup processes and allow transparent backup and rapid restoration of vital files/folders, applications, images, plus VMs. ProSight DPS lets your business avoid data loss caused by equipment failures, natural calamities, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, user mistakes, malicious employees, or application bugs. Managed services available in the ProSight DPS portfolio include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent service representative can assist you to determine which of these managed services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

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 infrastructure of top information security vendors to provide centralized control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Solutions
Progent's Duo authentication managed services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to defend against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected application and give your password you are asked to confirm who you are on a device that only you have and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad range of devices can be used as this second form of ID validation including a smartphone or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register multiple validation devices. To learn more about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, visit Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting service. 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 capture, update, retrieve and safeguard data related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time wasted looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you're making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need as soon as you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants offer unique consulting support in vital areas of IT protection such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with security evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of automatic system scans to uncover possible security holes. Progent has broad experience with these tools and can help your company to analyze assessment results and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also provide web software validation and can perform expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key global security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances plus portable handsets. Get more information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class technical expertise for Cisco's entire range of protection and VPN products such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Learn the details about Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
As well as being expert in a broad range of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size expert engineering services for security products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Deployment and Support
• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consultants
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Support
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Help

Get more information concerning Progent's CISM Security Support Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security architecture and models, connection control methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants have been awarded ISSAP accreditation as a result of rigorous examination and substantial hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth knowledge of access control systems and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.

Get more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected IT Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

Learn more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a recognized achievement that signifies mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant trained to help businesses in the fields of IS audit process, IT governance, systems and architecture planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding data assets, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out additional details concerning Progent's CISA Consulting Services.

CRISC Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and support IS controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and execute a business continuity plan based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively auditing your IT management mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for designing company-wide security policies.

Read more information about Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Expertise.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the skill of computer security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited professional has the knowledge appropriate to provide support in vital areas of system, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and institutions throughout the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the security disciplines addressed under GIAC accreditation topics such as assessing security systems, incident response, traffic analysis, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is situated in Manchester New Hampshire and you need computer security consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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