Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate remote assistance with data security issues, businesses in Providence Rhode Island can find high-level expertise from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are available to provide efficient and economical assistance with security problems that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's security consultants are premier to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent can provide advanced guidance for key cybersecurity and restoration technologies such as AI-based End Point Protection and Response, Managed Detection and Response, complete system restoration validation, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide range of consulting services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected system infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers remote security support services on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum call duration and without additional fees for setup or after hours support. By charging per minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's pricing model keeps costs low and avoids situations where quick solutions turn into major expenses.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way through a network. Because of this, ransomware attacks are typically launched on weekends and late at night, when support staff may take longer to become aware of a break-in and are less able to organize a quick and coordinated defense. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to achieve inside a victim's network, the longer it takes to restore basic 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 help organizations to carry out the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware attack by containing the malware. Progent's online ransomware engineers can help you to identify and isolate infected servers and endpoints and protect clean assets from being compromised. 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 Are We Supposed to Do?
If your network is now faced with a network security emergency other than ransomware, go to Progent's Emergency Online Technical Support to find out how to get fast help. Progent has a team of veteran cybersecurity experts who offer online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For businesses who have prepared beforehand for an attack, the formal post-attack response model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating data protection plus preparedness for recovering critical information and functions following an attack requires an on-going process that entails an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified experts can assist your organization at any level in your efforts to guard your information system, ranging from security assessments to creating a complete security plan. Key technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Secure Environments
Every business should have a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive elements. The proactive plan is a collection of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy defines activities to help IT staff to assess the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and restore network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your business operations. Progent can set up scanning software, create and execute a secure IT architecture, and recommend processes and policies to maximize the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to configure a firewall, design safe remote access to e-mail and information, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options include non-stop online network tracking and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering systems and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have stopped working because of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to determine the damage caused by the breach, restore normal business operations, and recover information lost as a result of the event. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing other proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend effective ways to avoid or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the services of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Cybersecurity Consulting
At-home workers commonly utilize their personal computers and often work in a poorly secured physical area. This situation increases their susceptibility to malware attacks and requires judicious deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive user education, and the development of policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned group of telecommuter support experts can help you to design, implement and manage an effective security solution that protects critical IT assets in networks that incorporate an at-home workforce and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management provide businesses of any size a versatile and cost-effective alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your dynamic information system. Besides maximizing the security and reliability of your computer network, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your IT team to focus on more strategic projects and activities that derive maximum business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centered cyberthreat defense stack that features AI software and professional services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's compact agents can be installed in a few minutes to protect popular endpoints against increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats such as ransomware, familiar and zero-day malware, trojans, hacking toolkits, RAM exploits, script misuse, invasive macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) abuse. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and reseller and manages thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is always the first endpoint response software deployed by Progent to provide control and visibility of a client's network at the outset of a ransomware emergency. For more information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response (XDR) expertise.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports continuous, simultaneous, automated testing of your network to help you uncover, prioritize, remediate, and verify security vulnerabilities before threat actors can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can strategically deploy decoys called tripwires like fake files or credentials to find out when your environment is actively being probed across various attack vectors. Tripwires generate sufficient detail to make it possible to take action promptly with your incident response workflows before an attacker can wreak havoc. Progent offers the skills of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your network perimeter and your internal network so you can evaluate your current security posture. Progent can also help you to harden your network security and can help you to plan and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides optimum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To find out additional information about Progent's vulnerability analysis services powered by on NodeZero's pentest products, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Stealth Penetration Security Testing Services
Stealth penetration checking is a key component of any overall IT system security plan. Progent's security professionals can perform thorough intrusion tests without the knowledge of your organization's in-house network support resources. Unannounced penetration checking shows whether current security defense tools such as intrusion detection warnings and event history analysis are properly set up and actively observed. Progent can implement continuous automatic PEN testing to map your internal/external attack surface and to identify ways that vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, harvested credentials, missing patches, and unsound product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-vector attacks common to the latest variants of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth Penetration Assessment Experts.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the entire threat progression including protection, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent can also assist you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with leading backup/restore technology vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a selection of offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services automate and track your data backup processes and allow non-disruptive backup and rapid restoration of important files, apps, images, and VMs. ProSight DPS lets you protect against data loss resulting from equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, malware such as ransomware, user mistakes, malicious employees, or application glitches. Managed 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 ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent service representative can assist you to identify which of these fully managed backup 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 and email encryption service that uses the technology of top data security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class protection for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, 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 cloud technology to defend against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a secured online account and enter your password you are requested to verify who you are via a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different network channel. A broad range of devices can be used for this second form of authentication including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may designate multiple verification devices. For more information about Duo two-factor identity validation services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for an at-home workforce.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time thrown away looking for critical information about your 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 and self-service instructions. 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 a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need as soon as you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's veteran engineers can provide unique support in key areas of computer protection including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic network tests to reveal possible security holes. Progent has extensive skills with these utilities and can help you to understand assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also provide web software validation and can perform thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major global security specifications such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile devices. Find out more information about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class consulting support for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network technologies including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Find out the details concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
In addition to supporting a broad range of network security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size advanced consulting for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Configuration Help
• Check Point Software Technologies Consulting
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Experts
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Consulting
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Integration
• Symantec Corp Help

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP certification as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security design and test systems, access control methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have been awarded ISSAP accreditation after thorough examination and substantial hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth understanding of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can help your business with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your organization to follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, define effective design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is an important qualification that represents mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to help businesses in the areas of IS audit process, information technology enforcement, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology service delivery, protecting information assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and execute a business continuity plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management services are complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially evaluating your IT management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM support professionals for designing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills necessary to deliver services in critical areas of system, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the help of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the security capabilities addressed within GIAC certification topics including auditing security systems, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web application 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 company is located in Providence Rhode Island and you need network security engineering help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout New England.