Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate online help with network security problems, companies in Newark New Jersey can find high-level support from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is ready to provide efficient and affordable help with security problems that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent can provide world-class guidance for critical security and restoration solutions like AI-driven EDR (End Point Protection and Response), MDR (Managed Detection and Response), complete system restoration validation, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's broad range of services covers firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has earned the industry's top security accreditations including CISM and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers remote security support services on a per-minute basis with no minimum times and without additional charges for setup or after hours service. By billing per minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's billing model keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where simple fixes turn into major charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to work its way across a target network. Because of this, ransomware assaults are typically unleashed on weekends and at night, when IT personnel may take longer to become aware of a penetration and are less able to organize a quick and forceful response. The more lateral progress ransomware can make inside a target's system, the more time it will require to recover core IT services and scrambled files and the more data can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to help you to take the time-critical first steps in responding to a ransomware assault by containing the malware. Progent's online ransomware experts can help businesses to locate and isolate breached devices and guard undamaged assets from being penetrated. If your system has been breached by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
If your business is now experiencing a security emergency other than ransomware, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Support to find out how to receive immediate assistance. Progent has a pool of veteran network security experts who can provide online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security posture to guard against future attacks.

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

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Coordinating computer protection and preparedness for restoring critical data and systems following an attack demands a continual program involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security experts can help your business at all levels in your efforts to protect your information system, ranging from security assessments to creating a complete security strategy. Key areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Protected Networks
Every company ought to develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both proactive and responsive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a set of precautions that works to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy defines activities to help IT personnel to inventory the losses resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, document the experience, and revive network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your business processes. Progent can install scanning software, create and execute a secure network architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will enhance the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy secure offsite access to e-mail and information, and install an effective VPN.

If you are interested in an economical option for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages feature automated online server tracking and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with regulatory data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in recovering networks and devices that have been compromised, are suspect, or have stopped working as a result of a security breach. Progent can help assess the damage caused by the assault, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a thorough failure analysis by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's background with security issues reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to recommend efficient measures to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct an environment damaged by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Work-from-Home Security Expertise
At-home staff members commonly utilize their personal computing devices and often work in a poorly secured physical space. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to cyber attacks and requires judicious deployment of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive user education, and the creation of policies based on leading practices. Progent's veteran team of telecommuter solutions experts can assist your business to plan, configure and manage an effective security solution that protects vital IT resources in environments that include telecommuters and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management offer businesses of any size a flexible and affordable alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT system. Besides optimizing the protection and reliability of your computer network, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your in-house IT staff to focus on more strategic initiatives and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's patch management services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centric cyberthreat defense stack that includes computer learning algorithms and advanced services to deliver comprehensive endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's small-footprint agents can be loaded in minutes to guard popular endpoints against increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats such as ransomware, familiar and zero-day malware, trojan viruses, hacking tools, memory exploits, malicious scripts, invasive macros, and living-off-the-land attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and dealer and manages thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne Singularity is always the first incident response tool activated by Progent to gain control and visibility of a customer's system in the first stages of a ransomware emergency. For additional information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response (XDR) services.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports repeated, concurrent, programmable testing of your network so you can identify, rank, fix, and confirm security weaknesses before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can plant decoys called tripwires like bogus files or credentials to find out when your system is being probed along common attack vectors. Tripwires provide sufficient information to make it possible to take action quickly with your incident response workflows before an attacker can compromise your environment. Progent offers the skills of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can assist you to use NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can determine your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your network security and can assist you to plan and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides optimum cyber defense for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To learn more details about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions powered by on NodeZero's PEN test platform, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.

Stealth Penetration Security Evaluation Services
Stealth penetration testing is an important component of any comprehensive IT system security strategy. Progent's security professionals can run extensive penetration checks without the awareness of your company's in-house IT staff. Stealth penetration testing uncovers whether current security monitoring systems such as intrusion detection alerts and event history analysis are correctly set up and actively observed. Progent can implement continuous automatic PEN testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to identify ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, harvested credentials, overlooked patches, and unsound product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-vector attacks common to the latest versions of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth Penetration Intrusion Evaluation Consultants.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to manage the entire threat lifecycle including protection, detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to install and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with leading backup/restore product vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a selection of management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services automate and track your data backup processes and allow non-disruptive backup and fast recovery of vital files/folders, apps, images, and virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you recover from data loss caused by equipment failures, natural calamities, fire, malware like ransomware, human error, malicious employees, or application glitches. Managed backup services available in the ProSight Data Protection portfolio include ProSight 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 DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can assist you to determine which of these fully managed services are best suited for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the infrastructure of top data security vendors to provide centralized control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA service plans utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity verification with iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, when you log into a secured application and give your password you are requested to verify your identity via a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of devices can be used as this second means of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can register several verification devices. For details about ProSight Duo identity validation services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for an at-home workforce.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save up to half of time thrown away trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you're making improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need the instant you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants offer world-class consulting support in vital facets of network security including:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic system tests to identify potential security holes. Progent has broad skills with scanning tools and can help you to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web application validation and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major global security specifications such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment as well as portable handsets. Find out more information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network products including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Find out the details about Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a wide array of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size advanced consulting for products from other popular firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Deployment and Support
• Check Point Consulting
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Experts
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Support
• Symantec Help

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

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and test systems, connection control methodology, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants have earned ISSAP accreditation following thorough examination and substantial experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth knowledge of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Find out additional information about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected Network Architecture Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a recognized achievement that indicates expertise in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has consultants pass a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security professional able to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit services, IT administration, network assets and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity planning.

Find out the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services.

CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and execute a workplace continuity plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively assessing your IT control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for designing security policies.

Learn the details concerning Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Consulting.

GIAC Professional Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified professional has the skills appropriate to deliver services in important categories of network, information, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the network security capabilities covered within GIAC certification programs including assessing security systems, incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Contact Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your business is situated in Newark New Jersey and you need computer security engineering help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go 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.