Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote assistance with network security problems, companies in New York City New York have access to high-level support by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are ready to provide fast and low-cost assistance with security crises that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to support systems based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent can provide world-class support for key security and recovery solutions including AI-based End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), full system restoration testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide selection of consulting services encompasses firewall configuration, email security, protected system architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has earned the industry's top security credentials including Global Information Assurance Certification and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides online security support on a per-minute basis with no minimum times and no additional charges for sign-up or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where quick fixes turn into big charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to work its way through a network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are commonly launched on weekends and late at night, when support personnel are likely to be slower to become aware of a breach and are less able to mount a rapid and coordinated response. The more lateral progress ransomware can achieve inside a victim's system, the longer it will require to recover basic IT services and scrambled files and the more data can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to help you to take the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware attack by stopping the bleeding. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can assist you to identify and quarantine infected devices and guard undamaged resources from being penetrated. If your network has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
In case your network is now experiencing a network security emergency other than ransomware, go to Progent's Emergency Online Technical Help to learn how to get immediate assistance. Progent has a pool of veteran network security specialists who offer remote and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future attacks.

For companies who have prepared beforehand for being hacked, the step-by-step incident handling procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security penetration.

Overview of Security Support Services
Coordinating network protection as well as staying ready for recovering vital information and functions following a security breach requires a continual program involving an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's security experts can assist your business at any level in your attempt to guard your information system, ranging from security assessments to designing a complete security program. Key technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Protected Networks
Every organization ought to develop a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both proactive and reactive steps. The proactive plan is a set of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies procedures to help IT staff to assess the losses resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your business operations. Progent can set up scanning utilities, define and implement a safe network architecture, and propose processes and policies that will enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy secure remote access to email and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If you are looking for an affordable option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options feature non-stop remote network monitoring and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) 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 hacked, are suspect, or have ceased to function as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses resulting from the attack, return your company to normal functions, and retrieve data lost owing to the attack. Progent's security engineers can also manage a thorough failure evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing a variety of proven assessment tools. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to suggest efficient strategies to avoid or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to rebuild an information system victimized by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Expertise
At-home employees commonly utilize their own computing devices and often operate in a unsecured physical space. This multiplies their susceptibility to cyber attacks and calls for judicious configuration of firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, extensive user education, and the development of policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned group of telecommuter solutions experts can help you to plan, implement and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that protects critical information assets in environments that include an at-home workforce and hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management provide businesses of all sizes a flexible and affordable alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving information system. In addition to maximizing the security and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your IT team to concentrate on line-of-business projects and activities that deliver maximum business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centered threat management platform that features computer learning software and advanced services to provide comprehensive endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's compact agents can be loaded in minutes to guard popular endpoints against modern assaults such as ransomware, familiar and new malware, trojan viruses, hacking tool sets, RAM exploits, malicious scripts, destructive macros, and living-off-the-land abuse. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and oversees thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is invariably the first EDR 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 additional information, see Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response services.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, simultaneous, programmable assessment of your internal and perimeter network so you can expose, rank, fix, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can plant so-called tripwires like bogus credentials to find out when your environment is being targeted across high-risk attack vectors. Tripwires generate sufficient information to allow you to react promptly with your incident response workflows before an assailant can do serious damage. Progent can provide the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your present security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to plan and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and provides maximum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional details about Progent's threat analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's PEN test products, visit Consulting Support for NodeZero's Pentest Products.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Testing Services
Stealth penetration checking is a key component of any overall IT system security strategy. Progent's security experts can run extensive intrusion tests without the awareness of your organization's in-house network support resources. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether current security defense systems such as intrusion detection warnings and event log analysis are properly configured and consistently monitored. Progent can provide continuous automatic PEN testing to map your internal/external attack surface and to identify ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, compromised credentials, overlooked patches, and dangerous product defaults can be combined by hackers into the multi-vector attacks typical of modern versions of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth PEN Testing Services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of network monitoring and 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. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis technology to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by legacy signature-based AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with leading backup technology vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a family of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS products automate and track your data backup processes and enable transparent backup and rapid restoration of critical files, apps, images, plus virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps your business protect against data loss resulting from hardware failures, natural disasters, fire, malware like ransomware, human mistakes, malicious employees, or application bugs. Managed services in the ProSight Data Protection portfolio include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent service representative can help you to determine which of these fully managed backup services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

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 leading data security companies to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo MFA service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, whenever you log into a protected application and enter your password you are asked to confirm your identity on a device that only you have and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this added form of authentication including a smartphone or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may register multiple validation devices. For details about Duo two-factor identity validation services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware solution without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, find and safeguard data related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or domains and warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time spent looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you're planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require when you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers offer world-class specialized help in vital facets of computer security such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with security evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive system tests to identify potential security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with scanning tools and can assist your company to understand audit reports and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web software testing and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major worldwide security specifications such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances plus mobile devices. Get more information concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class consulting support for Cisco's complete range of security and VPN technologies including PIX Series 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 Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Get additional information about Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and VPN Technologies
As well as being expert in a broad range of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size expert support for security products from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

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

Find out the details concerning Progent's CISM Security Support Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security design and models, access control systems, applications development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Learn the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have earned ISSAP accreditation following thorough examination and substantial experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, 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.

Find out additional details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure Network Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the services expected of 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 consultant to help your organization to follow modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Expertise
The CISA accreditation is an important qualification that represents expertise in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has consultants undergo an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security engineer able to assist companies in the areas of IS audit services, information technology governance, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology support, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively assessing your IT management design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for designing security policies and procedures.

Get more information about Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Consulting.

Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security professionals. GIAC's mission is to assure that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge appropriate to deliver support in important areas of system, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the help of certified security engineers for all of the network security disciplines covered under GIAC certification topics including auditing IT infrastructure, security incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Support
If your business is located in New York City New York and you're trying to find computer security help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.