Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote help with network security issues, companies in Stamford Connecticut can find world-class troubleshooting from Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote support staff is ready to provide fast and low-cost assistance with security crises that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for environments based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, and major versions of UNIX. Progent can deliver world-class help for critical security and recovery solutions such as AI-driven End Point Protection and Response, Managed Detection and Response, full system restoration validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide array of services covers firewall expertise, email security, secure system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's top security accreditations including GIAC and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers online security assistance on a per-minute model with no minimum minutes and no additional charges for setup or after hours support. By billing per minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps costs low and avoids situations where simple fixes entail big charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to steal its way through a network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are commonly launched on weekends and late at night, when support personnel may be slower to recognize a break-in and are less able to organize a quick and coordinated response. The more lateral progress ransomware is able to achieve inside a target's system, the more time it takes to restore basic IT services and damaged files and the more data can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to help you to take the time-critical first steps in mitigating a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware experts can assist businesses to identify and isolate infected servers and endpoints and protect undamaged assets from being penetrated. If your system has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your business is currently faced with a network security crisis other than ransomware, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Help to learn how to receive fast assistance. Progent has a pool of veteran cybersecurity experts who can provide remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future attacks.

For businesses who have planned in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of responding to a major security penetration.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Coordinating data protection plus planning for recovering critical information and functions following an attack requires a continual program that entails an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified professionals can help your business at any level in your efforts to safeguard your information system, ranging from security assessments to creating a complete security plan. Key technologies supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Secure Environments
Any organization should develop a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive activity. The proactive plan is a set of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies activities to help security staff to inventory the losses resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your business operations. Progent can install auditing software, create and execute a safe computer infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, design safe offsite access to e-mail and data, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages feature non-stop online system tracking and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in restoring networks and servers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have ceased to function as a result of a security penetration. Progent can help evaluate the damage resulting from the assault, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover data compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a comprehensive forensic evaluation by examining event logs and using other advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to propose efficient strategies to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an information system compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Work-from-Home Security Solutions
Work-from-Home employees commonly utilize their personal devices and usually operate in a poorly secured physical space. This multiplies their vulnerability to malware threats and requires judicious configuration of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive user training, and the creation of policies based on best practices. Progent's veteran roster of at-home workforce support consultants can help your business to plan, configure and manage a compliant security solution that protects critical IT resources in environments that incorporate an at-home workforce as well as hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of all sizes a versatile and cost-effective solution for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your dynamic IT system. In addition to maximizing the protection and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services free up time for your in-house IT team to focus on line-of-business initiatives and activities that derive maximum business value from your network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Extended Detection and Response Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centric threat defense stack that features AI algorithms and expert services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's compact software agents can be installed in a few minutes to protect popular endpoints against modern threats including ransomware, familiar and new malware, trojans, hacking tool sets, memory exploits, malicious scripts, destructive macros, and living-off-the-land abuse. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and dealer and oversees thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne is invariably the first endpoint response tool activated by Progent to provide control and visibility of a client's system in the first stages of a ransomware breach. For more information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response services.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, concurrent, automated assessment of your network to help you identify, prioritize, fix, and verify cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can deploy so-called tripwires such as bogus credentials to detect when your environment is currently being probed along proven attack paths. Tripwires provide sufficient information to allow you to take action promptly with your SIEM tools and procedures before an attacker can do serious damage. Progent can provide the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can help you to use NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your current security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to strengthen your network security and can assist you to plan and implement a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides optimum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional details about Progent's threat assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration Security Testing Services
Stealth penetration checking is a key part of any comprehensive network security strategy. Progent's security professionals can run thorough intrusion tests without the knowledge of your organization's in-house IT resources. Unannounced penetration testing uncovers whether existing security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event history analysis are properly configured and actively monitored. Progent can provide continuous automatic PEN testing to define your internal and external attack surface and to identify ways that vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, harvested credentials, overlooked patches, and dangerous IT product defaults can be combined by threat actors into the multi-vector attacks common to the latest strains of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth Penetration Intrusion Testing Consultants.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight 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 analysis technology to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the entire malware attack lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific needs and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
Progent has worked with leading backup/restore technology vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of subscription-based management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services automate and track your backup processes and enable transparent backup and rapid restoration of important files/folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps your business avoid data loss resulting from hardware breakdown, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, human mistakes, ill-intentioned employees, or software glitches. Managed backup services in the ProSight DPS family include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to determine which of these fully managed backup services are best suited for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top data security companies to provide centralized control and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo authentication services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity verification on iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured online account and give your password you are requested to confirm who you are on a unit that only you possess and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this added form of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate multiple verification devices. To learn more about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for teleworkers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Learn 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 create, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information about your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time spent looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you're planning improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need when you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer world-class expertise in key areas of computer security including:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive system scans to identify potential security problems. Progent has extensive experience with scanning utilities and can assist your company to understand audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web software testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key industry security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances as well as mobile handsets. Learn the details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class technical support for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Learn the details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
In addition to being expert in a wide range of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size top-level support for products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants 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 Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Support
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Learn more information about Progent's CISM Security Support Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security design and models, connection control systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Get more information about Progent's CISSP Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of rigorous testing and significant experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with 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 security analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define effective design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

Learn the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting.

CISA Security Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that signifies expertise in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security engineer able to help businesses in the fields of IS audit services, IT governance, network assets and architecture lifecycle, IT support, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Experts
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain IS controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively evaluating your IT control design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for defining security policies.

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GIAC Professional Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security professionals. GIAC's mission is to assure that an accredited professional possesses the skills needed to deliver services in important categories of network, information, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the help of certified professionals for any of the security disciplines addressed under GIAC accreditation programs such as assessing networks, security incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your company is situated in Stamford Connecticut and you need network security engineering help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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