Business IT networks in Rhode Island can now get prompt and economical remote access to Progent's qualified security support specialists to help with urgent security problems. The cost is affordable, charges are per minute, engagement is fast, and service is unbeatable. Progent also offers help for long-term engagements that demand the services of seasoned security consultants with top security credentials.

If your Rhode Island office is based away from major urban neighborhoods like Providence, Warwick, or Cranston, support from nearby certified security professionals is often limited during a security disaster. This can cause lost income for your company, upset clients, unproductive employees, and distracted executives. By utilizing Progent's remote support, you can get in touch with a Certified security engineer who can deliver expertise whenever you require it to keep your computer network running and restore your data.

Progent can assist you at any level in your initiatives to defend your IT environment with support services that can range from network security checks to creating a company-wide security plan. Progent provides affordable service to help small and midsize companies to set up and maintain protected networks based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco technology and that can include computers based on UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X platforms as well as mobile clients with Apple iOS iPhones and iPads or Google Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to assist you to take the urgent first steps in mitigating a ransomware assault by containing the malware. Progent's remote ransomware experts can help businesses to identify and isolate infected servers and endpoints and guard undamaged resources from being penetrated.

If your network has been breached by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's 24x7 Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Overview of Progent's IT Security Services
Progent can help you outsource spam blocking and defense against e-mail-based attacks. Email Guard is Progent's email security platform that incorporates the technology of leading information security vendors to deliver web-based management and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. ProSight Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall.

Progent's security professionals are accessible online or on premises to offer a variety of urgent or project-based IT security services including:

  • Run thorough network security audits
  • Recuperate promptly after serious security breaches
  • Configure hardware and software firewalls
  • Configure secure methods for offsite and mobile connectivity
  • Deploy effective solutions for protection against viruses, spam and directory harvest attacks
  • Help create a company-wide security plan with proactive monitoring
  • Provide comprehensive Help Desk Support
  • Help Create a practical network backup and disaster recovery solution centered on Microsoft DPM backup capability
If your company has an urgent requirement for computer security help, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Support.

Progent's consultants provide advanced services in key facets of system security including auditing, firewall and VPN solutions, and advanced security planning.

System Audits
Progent's certified security consultants can assess the effectiveness of your existing computer protection systems by performing exhaustive remote automated analysis based on sophisticated software tools and tested techniques. Progent's skill in this testing saves your company consulting fees and offers an objective portrayal of security holes. The knowledge your business gains can make up the basis of a network protection plan that will allow your information system to operate dependably and respond quickly to new risks.

Automated Network Security Evaluation
Progent offers consulting in the use of security testing utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and GFI LANguard NSS for economically running a set of programmed network testing scans to identify potential security weaknesses. Progent has broad knowledge of additional security analysis tools including NMAP, AMAP application mapper, eEye, plus utilities like Metasploit Framework, Netcat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to make sense of testing reports and react effectively.

Progent can show you how to build protection into your company operations, configure scanning software, plan and deploy a secure system environment, and suggest procedures to optimize the safety of your IT system. Progent's security professionals are able to show you how to set up a firewall, implement secure remote connectivity to email and business applications, and integrate VPN. Learn more concerning Progent's network security audits.

Security Inventory Service Bundles for Small Businesses
Progent has put together two ultra-affordable security inventory scanning packages designed to allow small companies to get an objective network security evaluation from a qualified security engineer. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer runs a comprehensive examination of your network from beyond your firewalled perimeter to uncover potential risks in the security posture you expose to the public. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer executes a network scan from a secure computer inside your company firewall to evaluate vulnerabilities to inside assaults. The two security inventory services are set up and executed from a protected external location. The process is managed by an engineer who has earned high-level security credentials and who generates a report that details and analyzes the data captured by the scan and proposes cost-effective improvements if appropriate.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Security Assessment Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports continuous, simultaneous, automated testing of your network so you can uncover, prioritize, remediate, and verify security weaknesses before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can determine your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides optimum protection for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To learn more information about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions powered by on NodeZero's penetration test products, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Network Penetration Analysis Support Services
Stealth intrusion testing is an important part of any comprehensive network security strategy. Progent's security experts can perform extensive intrusion checks without the awareness of your company's internal IT staff. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether current security defense systems such as intrusion detection alerts and event history analysis are properly configured and actively monitored. Learn additional information on Progent's stealth security penetration analysis support services.

Firewall/VPN Support
Progent's background in network security solutions encompasses in-depth familiarity with major firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products from a variety of vendors including Cisco, Microsoft, Juniper Netyworks and Fortinet. Progent can provide the support of consultants who have earned important industry accreditations such as CCIE and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX 500 Firewalls Configuration and Troubleshooting
The new ASA 5500-X Family of firewalls with Firepower Services deliver substantially more value than Cisco's previous firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for new deployments. After Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole family of Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls can be configured to enable Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the market's most popular intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services bring powerful new features such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can assist your company to manage your current PIX or ASA 5500 firewalls and upgrade to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer online and onsite support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your business to design, configure, tune, administer and troubleshoot firewall solutions based on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Find out additional details about ASA Firewalls with Firepower integration and troubleshooting support.

Cisco Security and VPN Engineering Services
Cisco's security and remote access products provide a comprehensive line of manageable security solutions to help protect your wired and wireless information system. Cisco's VPN product family features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN appliances. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes experienced engineers with Cisco's Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who are able to help your business to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that fit best with your business objectives. Find out additional information about Progent's Support Expertise for Cisco Security Solutions and Virtual Private Network Appliances.

Engineering Services for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technology
Progent offers small and mid-size businesses professional support for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN technology from major firewall and VPN security companies such as WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, and SonicWall. Progent can show you how to create a comprehensive security strategy and choose the right technologies from a variety of suppliers to achieve your security objectives while sticking within your spending restraints.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the entire threat lifecycle including blocking, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and enables fast recovery of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component failures, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to recover your critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading information security vendors to provide centralized control and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

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 key servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time thrown away looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you're planning improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require the instant you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Network Security Design
Every business should have a carefully considered security strategy that includes both pre-attack procedures and response plans. The proactive strategy is a set of steps intended to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy helps your IT security personnel to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, repair the system, record the event, and get business functions operational as rapidly as feasible.

Progent's certified information security consultants can to help your business to perform a complete risk evaluation and define a computer security strategy to implement security policies and mechanisms to reduce ongoing assaults and threats.

CISM Qualified Information Security Engineering Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee describes the basic competencies and international standards of skill that information security managers are expected to learn. It gives business management the assurance that consultants who have qualified for their CISM certification possess the background and knowledge to deliver efficient security management and support services. Progent offers the support of CISM Premier security professionals to help businesses with:

  • IS Security Governance
  • Risk Analysis
  • Information Security Implementation Management
  • Information Security Management
  • Recovery Management
Read additional details concerning Progent's CISM Accredited IS Security Engineering Professionals.

CISSP Qualified Security Consulting Assistance
The CISSP credential recognizes mastery of a global standard for network security. ANSI has granted certification recognition in the area of information security defined by ISO/IEC 17024. Progent offers the services of security consultants who have qualified for CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified professional to help your company in a variety security areas including:

  • Security Administration Procedures
  • Security Infrastructure and Paradigms
  • Access Control Systems and Methodology
  • Applications Development Security
  • Secure Operations
  • Physical Security
  • Encryption/Decryption Technology
  • Telecom, Network and Internet Security
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
Learn more information concerning Progent's CISSP-certified Cybersecurity Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure IT Architecture Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified information system architecture professionals are consultants who have earned ISSAP status through thorough testing and extensive experience with information security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) certification indicates proven competence in the more complex requirements of information security architecture within the broader field of information system security knowledge required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security including.

  • Access Control Mechanisms and Methodologies
  • Telecommunications and Network Security
  • Data Encryption Options
  • Requirements Evaluation and Security Guidelines
  • Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
  • Hardware Security
Learn additional details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Consulting Services.

CISA Certified IS Security Auditing Engineering Support
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a globally recognized achievement that signifies expertise in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that candidates pass an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent's CISA IS security audit engineers can assist your company in the areas of:

  • IS Audit Process
  • IT Governance
  • Network Assets and Infrastructure Planned Useful Life
  • IT Service Delivery
  • Safeguarding Information Resources
  • Business Continuity Preparedness
Learn more information about Progent's CISA Qualified IS Security Auditing Engineering Assistance.

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Consultants
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, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC network risk management experts offer a variety of risk assessment services including:

  • Collect information and study documentation to evaluate major vulnerabilities
  • Identify statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements and organizational policies associated with your information system to determine their possible influence on your strategic objectives
  • Identify potential vulnerabilities for your business processes to help in analyzing your enterprise risk
  • Develop a risk awareness initiative and provide training to make sure your organization understand IS risk so they can contribute to your risk control process
  • Connect key risk scenarios to your associated operational processes to help assign risk responsibility
  • Validate risk appetite with your senior management and major stakeholders to make sure they align
Read additional details about Progent's Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Consultants.

GIAC Certified Security Engineering Assistance
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security professionals. GIAC's mission is to verify that a certified security consultant possesses the skills appropriate to deliver support in important areas of system, information, and application software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and institutions throughout the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC security audit specialists can help your IT organization in the areas of:

  • Assessing Networks
  • Incident Response
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Web Application Security
  • SIEM solutions
Find out additional details about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Contact a Security Specialist
To see how you can get in touch with a certified Progent security consultant for remote or onsite expertise in Rhode Island, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Remote Computer Support.


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