Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate remote assistance with network security issues, businesses in Midtown Manhattan New York have access to high-level support by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is ready to provide efficient and affordable help with security issues that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's security engineers are premier to support systems based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent can deliver advanced guidance for key security and recovery technologies such as AI-driven End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), full system restoration testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's broad range of services covers firewall configuration, email security, secure network design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the world's top security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides remote security support on a per-minute basis with no minimum call duration and no additional fees for setup or after hours support. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where quick fixes entail major bills.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to work its way across a network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are typically unleashed on weekends and at night, when support personnel may take longer to recognize a breach and are less able to organize a rapid and coordinated defense. The more lateral progress ransomware can manage inside a target'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 intended to guide organizations to take the urgent first steps in mitigating a ransomware attack by containing the malware. Progent's remote ransomware experts can assist businesses to identify and isolate infected devices and guard clean resources from being penetrated. If your system has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Should We Do?
If your network is currently faced with a security crisis other than ransomware, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Help to learn how to get fast help. Progent has a pool of seasoned network security specialists who offer remote and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to protect against future attacks.

For businesses that have planned beforehand for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating computer security and planning for restoring critical data and systems following a security breach requires a continual effort involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's security professionals can help your organization at whatever level in your efforts to protect your IT system, ranging from security assessments to creating a complete security strategy. Key areas covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Borne Threats.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Any business should develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to assist IT personnel to inventory the losses caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the event, and revive network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to design security into your company processes. Progent can install scanning software, define and execute a safe IT infrastructure, and propose processes and policies to maximize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy safe online and mobile access to email and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If you are looking for an affordable option for jobbing out your security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages include automated online server tracking and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud-based resources and that comply with regulatory security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in recovering systems and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working following a security attack. Progent can help assess the losses resulting from the attack, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve data lost owing to the event. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a thorough forensic analysis by examining activity logs and using other advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to recommend effective measures to prevent or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an environment victimized by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Consulting
At-home workers commonly use their own computing devices and usually work in a poorly secured physical space. This increases their vulnerability to cyber threats and calls for careful deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive user training, and the creation of policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran roster of Work-from-home solutions experts can help you to plan, deploy and maintain a compliant security solution that protects vital information assets in environments that incorporate at-home workers as well as hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of all sizes a flexible and affordable alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT system. Besides maximizing the security and functionality of your computer environment, Progent's patch management services free up time for your IT team to concentrate on more strategic projects and activities that derive the highest business value from your information network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Extended Detection and Response Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centered cyberthreat management platform that includes AI algorithms and advanced services to deliver enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's low-profile agents can be installed in minutes to guard popular endpoints against modern cyberthreats including ransomware, familiar and brand-new malware, trojans, hacking tools, memory exploits, script misuse, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and dealer and oversees thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne Singularity is invariably the first incident response tool deployed by Progent to gain control and visibility of a customer's network in the first stages of a ransomware recovery emergency. For more information, see Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response expertise.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports repeated, simultaneous, automated testing of your network to help you find, prioritize, remediate, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before threat actors can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can strategically plant so-called tripwires such as bogus files or credentials to detect whether your network is actively being probed along high-risk attack vectors. Tripwires generate sufficient information to allow you to take action quickly with your incident response tools and procedures before an attacker can wreak havoc. Progent offers the support of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can assist you to deploy NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your current 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 delivers maximum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more details about Progent's vulnerability assessment services powered by on NodeZero's PEN test platform, visit Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Evaluation Services
Stealth intrusion checking is a key part of any comprehensive network security strategy. Progent's security experts can run thorough penetration checks without the awareness of your company's internal network support resources. Stealth penetration checking uncovers whether existing security defense tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event history monitoring are properly set up and consistently observed. Progent can provide continuous automatic PEN testing to map your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, improper configurations, compromised credentials, overlooked patches, and dangerous product defaults can be chained together by hackers into the multi-vector attacks common to the latest strains of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth PEN Testing Consultants.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis technology to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete threat progression including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require immediate action. Progent can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
Progent has partnered with advanced backup/restore product companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of subscription-based offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS products automate and track your backup processes and enable non-disruptive backup and rapid restoration of important files/folders, apps, system images, plus virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets your business protect against data loss caused by equipment failures, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, human error, ill-intentioned insiders, or software bugs. Managed backup services in the ProSight DPS family include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to identify which of these managed backup services are most appropriate for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the technology of leading information security companies to provide centralized control and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more information, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Solutions
Progent's Duo authentication services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a protected online account and give your password you are asked to verify your identity via a unit that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A wide range of devices can be used for this added form of ID validation such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate multiple verification devices. To learn more about Duo identity validation services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware solution without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, retrieve and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time spent trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you're planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's security consultants offer world-class support in key areas of computer protection including:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security auditing utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic network scans to identify potential security problems. Progent has broad experience with scanning utilities and can assist you to analyze assessment results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web application validation and can perform thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with key industry security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances plus portable devices. Get more details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth consulting services for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Find out additional details about Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a broad range of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes expert support for solutions from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Integration
• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consultants
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Learn more details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included under CISSP include security management practices, security design and test systems, connection permission systems, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have earned ISSAP status as a result of thorough examination and substantial hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Find out additional details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure IT Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the services associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, define efficient design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that represents mastery in information system security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo an extensive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit professional trained to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology enforcement, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT support, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and execute a business continuity plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively assessing your IT control design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security experts. GIAC's goal is to ensure that an accredited professional has the knowledge needed to provide support in vital categories of system, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions all over the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the expertise of certified security engineers for any of the security services addressed within GIAC accreditation programs including assessing security systems, security incident response, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Midtown Manhattan New York and you're looking for network security consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support in the Greater New York City Metro Area including Stamford, and all of New Jersey.