Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get fast remote help with network security issues, companies in Montreal Québec have access to high-level support by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to offer fast and low-cost assistance with security problems that threaten the productivity of your IT 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 help for vital security and restoration solutions such as AI-based End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), complete system restore validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's broad array of services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the world's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager and CISSP.

Progent provides online security assistance on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum times and without extra charges for sign-up or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs low and avoids scenarios where simple solutions turn into major charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to work its way through a network. Because of this, ransomware attacks are typically launched on weekends and late at night, when IT personnel are likely to take longer to recognize a break-in and are less able to mount a quick and forceful defense. The more lateral movement ransomware can achieve within a target's system, the more time it takes to recover 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 organizations to complete the urgent first steps in mitigating a ransomware attack by putting out the fire. Progent's online ransomware experts can assist businesses to locate and isolate infected devices and protect clean resources from being penetrated. If your system has been breached by any version 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 experiencing a security emergency other than ransomware, go to Progent's Emergency Online Technical Support to learn how to receive fast assistance. Progent has a team of seasoned network security experts who offer remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For companies who have prepared beforehand for a security breach, the formal post-attack response procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's approved method of responding to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Managing data protection and preparedness for recovering critical information and systems following a security breach demands a continual effort that entails an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified security experts can help your organization at whatever level in your attempt to secure your IT network, from security assessments to designing a complete security plan. Key areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of Email-Based Attacks.

Designing and Building Protected Environments
Any organization should develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive elements. The proactive plan is a set of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The post-attack plan defines activities to help IT staff to evaluate the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the experience, and restore network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your company operations. Progent can set up scanning software, create and execute a safe IT infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to configure a firewall, design protected online and mobile connectivity to email and information, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options feature non-stop online system monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in restoring networks and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have ceased to function following a security breach. Progent can help evaluate the losses resulting from the assault, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve information compromised owing to the event. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough failure evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing other advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to recommend effective strategies to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct a network victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and restoration services.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Solutions
Work-from-Home staff members typically use their own computers and often work in a unsecured physical environment. This situation increases their susceptibility to cyber threats and calls for judicious configuration of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive end-user training, and the development of security policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned roster of at-home workforce support experts can help you to design, implement and maintain a compliant cybersecurity solution that guards vital information resources in networks that include at-home workers as well as hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of all sizes a flexible and affordable solution for assessing, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your dynamic IT system. In addition to optimizing the protection and functionality of your IT network, Progent's patch management services free up time for your in-house IT staff to concentrate on more strategic projects and tasks that deliver the highest business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centered cyberthreat defense stack that features computer learning software and advanced services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's compact software agents can be loaded in a few minutes to defend popular endpoints against increasingly sophisticated threats including ransomware, familiar and new malware, trojan viruses, hacking tool sets, RAM exploits, script misuse, destructive macros, and living-off-the-land abuse. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and manages thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne is always the initial incident response software activated by Progent to gain control and visibility of a customer's system in the first stages of a ransomware breach. For more details, see Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response (XDR) consulting.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that can deliver continuous, simultaneous, programmable testing of your internal and perimeter network so you can uncover, prioritize, fix, and verify cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can deploy decoys called tripwires like bogus files or credentials to detect when your system is under attack across proven attack paths. Tripwires generate sufficient detail to allow you to react quickly with your SIEM workflows before an assailant can compromise your environment. Progent offers the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out thorough penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your present security profile. Progent can also assist you to strengthen your existing network security and can assist you to plan and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and delivers optimum cyber defense for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more details about Progent's threat analysis services powered by on NodeZero's PEN test platform, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Stealth Penetration Security Testing Services
Stealth penetration testing is an important component of any overall network security plan. Progent's security professionals can perform thorough penetration tests without the awareness of your company's internal IT resources. Unannounced penetration checking uncovers whether existing security monitoring systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event history monitoring are correctly configured and actively observed. Progent can implement continuous autonomous PEN testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to identify ways that vulnerabilities, improper configurations, compromised credentials, uninstalled patches, and unsound product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-vector attacks common to modern variants of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth PEN Testing Experts.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the entire threat lifecycle including protection, detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alerts, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific needs and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection regulations. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent can also help you to install and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup product vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of subscription-based offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services automate and monitor your backup processes and allow non-disruptive backup and rapid restoration of vital files, applications, system images, and VMs. ProSight DPS lets your business recover from data loss resulting from equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, human mistakes, ill-intentioned employees, or software glitches. Managed services available in the ProSight Data Protection family include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent expert can assist you to determine which of these managed backup services are best suited for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading data security companies to provide centralized management and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. 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 inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a further level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo authentication managed services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, when you log into a secured online account and enter your password you are requested to verify who you are on a unit that only you have and that is accessed using a different network channel. A broad selection of out-of-band devices can be used as this second form of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can register multiple validation devices. To find out more about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for an at-home workforce.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and protect information about your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time spent searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you're planning improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require when you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security engineers offer unique support in key areas of IT security including:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of automatic system scans to identify possible security gaps. Progent has broad skills with these and similar tools and can assist your company to analyze audit results and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web software testing and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important worldwide security specifications such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless equipment as well as portable handsets. Learn more details concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical expertise for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Get more information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as supporting a broad array of protection solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size top-level consulting for security products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Consultants
• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Consulting
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Support
• Symantec Help

Read more details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security design and models, connection control methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn additional information concerning Progent's CISSP Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification after thorough examination and extensive experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Read more information about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected System Architecture Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises with the services associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient design strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a recognized achievement that indicates mastery in information system security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has candidates pass a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit process, information technology enforcement, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, safeguarding information assets, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn additional details concerning Progent's CISA Support Services.

CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and maintain information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation services are a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially auditing your IS management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for defining company-wide security policies.

Get more details about Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Expertise.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of computer security experts. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified security consultant has the skills appropriate to provide services in key categories of network, information, and software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified professionals for all of the network security services addressed within GIAC certification programs including assessing security systems, security incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your business is situated in Montreal Québec and you're trying to find cybersecurity help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.