Small business IT networks in Massachusetts can have fast and economical remote access to Progent's certified network security consultants to fix complex security problems. The cost is affordable, charges are per minute, engagement is immediate, and service is unbeatable. Progent also offers help for complex engagements that requires the expertise of seasoned security consultants with top security certifications.

If your Massachusetts office is located far from larger urban areas such as Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Lowell, or Cambridge, help from local certified network security consultants is often limited when you have a security disaster. This can result in lost productivity for your business, angry clients, idle workers, and defocused management. By utilizing Progent's remote support, you can get in touch with a Premier security professional ready to deliver expertise whenever you need it to get your computer network on line and restore your information.

Progent can help you in all your initiatives to defend your network with support services that ranges from security audits to developing a company-wide security plan. Progent offers affordable service to help small and midsize companies to set up and maintain protected networks based on Windows and Cisco products and that can include computers based on UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple Mac OS X operating systems as well as BYOD clients with Apple iPhones and iPads or Google Android or Windows Phone handsets.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to assist organizations to complete the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware attack by putting out the fire. Progent's online ransomware engineers can help businesses to locate and quarantine infected servers and endpoints and protect clean assets from being penetrated.

If your network has been breached by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's 24x7 Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Overview of Progent's IT Security Expertise
Progent can show you how to outsource spam filtering and protection from e-mail-based security threats. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption solution that incorporates the technology of top data security companies to deliver centralized management and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises 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 filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter.

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

  • Run extensive security audits
  • Clean up rapidly after serious security breaches
  • Configure effective firewalls
  • Implement secure techniques for offsite and mobile connectivity
  • Deploy effective utilities for protection against viruses, spam and directory harvest attacks
  • Develop a company-wide security strategy with 24x7 network monitoring
  • Offer comprehensive Help Desk Call Center Services
  • Develop an effective data backup and business continuity strategy built around Data Protection Manager automated backup capability
If your company has an immediate need for computer security support, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Help.

Progent's security experts provide advanced services in vital fields of network security including analysis, firewall/VPN support, and advanced security consulting.

System Assessment
Progent's expert security engineers can evaluate the strength of your existing computer protection systems through comprehensive remote automated testing via sophisticated software tools and tested techniques. Progent's experience in this service saves your company money and offers a detailed portrayal of security holes. The knowledge your business gains can make up the foundation of a network protection strategy that can permit your information system to operate safely and react rapidly to new threats.

Automated Network Vulnerability Analysis
Progent provides consulting in the use of security evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and GFI LANguard NSS for economically running a set of automatic network testing checks to identify possible security weaknesses. Progent has extensive experience with additional network analysis utilities such as NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye, plus tools like SolarWinds, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to make sense of audit reports and respond effectively.

Progent can show you how to build security into your company operations, install auditing applications, plan and implement a protected system architecture, and suggest procedures to maximize the security of your IT system. Progent's security engineers are able to help you set up a firewall, design secure remote connectivity to email and data, and install virtual private network. Find out additional information on Progent's network security assessment.

Security Inventory Service Bundles for Small Businesses
Progent offers two low-cost security inventory and evaluation bundles intended to enable small businesses to get an impartial network security assessment from a qualified security consultant. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer administers an extensive examination of your IT infrastructure from beyond your company firewall to uncover potential weaknesses in the security profile you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer executes a system scan from an authorized computer within your company firewall to evaluate your exposure to inside assaults. The two security inventory services are set up and run from a protected external location. The project is directed by an engineer with top security credentials and who generates a report that details and analyzes the data captured by the security scan and suggests practical improvements if appropriate.

Consulting Services for 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, rank, remediate, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to use NodeZero to perform comprehensive penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can determine your current security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your network security and can help you to plan and implement a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides optimum cyber defense for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To learn additional information about Progent's vulnerability assessment services based on on NodeZero's PEN test platform, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Network Penetration Testing Support Services
Stealth intrusion checking is an important component of any comprehensive network security strategy. Progent's security professionals can perform thorough penetration checks without the knowledge of your organization's internal network support resources. Stealth penetration checking uncovers whether existing security defense tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event log analysis are properly configured and consistently monitored. Find out more on Progent's network security penetration testing support services.

Firewall And Virtual Private Network (VPN) Expertise
Progent's background in network security technology encompasses in-depth familiarity with major firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products from multiple companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks and Watch Guard. Progent can provide the support of engineers with important networking certifications such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft MCSE.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX 500 Security Appliances Configuration and Troubleshooting
The latest generation of Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services deliver substantially more value than Cisco's previous PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX security appliances for new installations. After Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole line of ASA 5500-X devices can be provisioned to enable Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the world's most popular network intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services bring enhanced features including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can assist you to maintain your legacy PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls or upgrade efficiently to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide online and on-premises help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help you to plan, integrate, tune, administer and debug firewall solutions built on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Read additional details about Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower integration and debugging support.

Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Support Expertise
Cisco's security and offsite access technology represent a complete range of manageable security solutions to help protect your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's Virtual Private Network line features switches, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and Virtual Private Network appliances. Progent's expert consulting staff includes field-proven specialists with Cisco CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who are able to assist your company to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security technologies that fit best with your business objectives. Find out more details about Progent's Engineering Expertise for Cisco Security Technology and Virtual Private Network Products.

Support Services for Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Products
Progent provides small and mid-size companies expert consulting for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN solutions from major firewall and VPN security vendors including WatchGuard, Juniper, and SonicWall. Progent can show you how to design a comprehensive security plan and choose the right technologies from multiple suppliers to support your security goals while sticking within your spending limits.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of managed 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. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the entire malware attack lifecycle including filtering, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and enables fast recovery of vital data, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of 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, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can assist you to recover your business-critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top information security companies to deliver centralized management and world-class protection for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more information, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, find and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as half of time wasted looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you're making enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need when you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Network Security Design
Any business ought to have a thoroughly considered security program that includes both proactive procedures and response plans. The proactive plan is a collection of steps intended to reduce security weaknesses. The post-attack strategy helps your IT security engineers to assess the damage caused by an attack, repair the system, document the experience, and get the IT network restored as soon as possible.

Progent's expert information security consultants can to help you to perform a full vulnerability assessment and define a network security plan to establish security policies and controls to minimize ongoing assaults and dangers.

CISM Accredited Information Security Consulting Services
The CISM organization describes the basic capabilities and global standards of performance that IT security professionals are required to learn. It gives executive management the confidence that consultants who have qualified for their CISM credential have the experience and capability to deliver efficient security management and support consulting. Progent can provide the support of CISM Certified security professionals to help companies with:

  • IS Security Governance
  • Risk Analysis
  • Information Security Implementation Management
  • IS Security Management
  • Response Planning
Read more information concerning Progent's CISM Accredited Information Security Support Expertise.

CISSP Certified Security Consulting Support
CISSP denotes mastery of an international standard for network security. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) has awarded the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of data security defined by ISO/IEC 17024. Progent offers the services of security experts who have earned CISSP certification. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified professional to help your company in a broad range of security areas such as:

  • Security Management Practices
  • Security Architecture and Models
  • Access Management Systems and Methodology
  • Software Development Security
  • Secure Operations
  • Site Security
  • Encryption/Decryption Technology
  • Telecommunications, Network and Internet Security
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
Learn additional information about Progent's CISSP Qualified Cybersecurity Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure IT Architecture Engineering Support
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified system architecture engineers are experts who have earned ISSAP status as a result of rigorous examination and significant experience with information security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) credential indicates proven competence in the most in-depth requirements of information system security architecture bounded by the wider field of information security knowledge required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture such as.

  • Access Control Systems and Techniques
  • Phone System and System Infrastructure Security
  • Cryptography Options
  • Requirements Evaluation and Security Criteria
  • BCP and DRP
  • Hardware Security
Find out additional details about Progent's ISSAP Qualified Secure Network Architecture Consulting Services.

CISA Accredited Information System Security Auditing Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious qualification that signifies expertise in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has candidates undergo a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent's CISA IS security audit engineers are available to help your business in the areas of:

  • Information Systems Audit Process
  • Information Technology Governance
  • Network Assets and Architecture Planned Useful Life
  • IT Service Delivery
  • Safeguarding Data Assets
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
Find out more details about Progent's CISA Accredited Network Security Auditing Engineering Services.

CRISC Experts
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC-certified network risk management experts offer a range of risk identification services including:

  • Collect data and review documentation to evaluate significant risk scenarios
  • Identify legal, regulatory, and business mandates and organizational policies related to your network to assess their potential impact on your strategic objectives
  • Identify potential vulnerabilities for your business workflows to assist in analyzing your corporate risk
  • Create a risk awareness initiative and provide training to make sure your stakeholders understand IS risk so they can contribute to your risk management process
  • Connect key risk scenarios to your associated operational procedures to help determine risk ownership
  • Determine risk tolerance with your senior leadership and key stakeholders to ensure they are in agreement
Find out additional information about Progent's CRISC Risk Management Experts.

GIAC Qualified Network Security Consulting Support
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited professional possesses the skills needed to provide services in important categories of network, data, and program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions throughout the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC-certified IS security audit consultants are available to help your IT organization with:

  • Assessing Security Systems
  • Security Incident Handling
  • Traffic Analysis
  • Web-based Application Security
  • SIEM solutions
Read more information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Support.

Get in Touch with a Security Engineer
To learn how to contact a certified security engineer for remote or onsite assistance in Massachusetts, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Online Network Help.

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