Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online assistance with computer security problems, businesses in Yonkers New York can find world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote support staff is available to offer effective and low-cost assistance with security problems that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's security engineers are certified to support environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent can deliver advanced guidance for critical security and recovery technologies including AI-based EDR (End Point Protection and Response), Managed Detection and Response, complete system restoration testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's broad array of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure system design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's top security credentials including GIAC and CISSP.

Progent offers remote security support on a by-the-minute basis without minimum times and no additional fees for setup or after hours support. By charging per minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's billing model keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where quick fixes result in major expenses.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to steal its way across a target network. Because of this, ransomware attacks are typically unleashed on weekends and at night, when support staff are likely to be slower to become aware of a breach and are least able to mount a rapid and forceful response. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to manage within a target's network, the longer it takes to restore basic IT services and scrambled files and the more data can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to guide you to complete the time-critical first phase in responding to a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware experts can help businesses to locate and quarantine breached servers and endpoints and protect clean assets from being compromised. If your network has been breached by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
If your network is currently fighting a security crisis other than ransomware, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Support to see how to receive fast aid. Progent maintains a pool of veteran cybersecurity experts who can provide remote and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations who have planned in advance for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a major security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Managing data security plus staying ready for restoring critical data and functions after an attack demands a continual effort that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's security experts can help your organization at whatever level in your efforts to guard your information network, ranging from security evaluation to creating a complete security program. Some areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Attacks.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Every business ought to have a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive elements. The proactive strategy is a collection of precautions that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies procedures to assist security staff to assess the losses caused by an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and revive business functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to design security into your company processes. Progent can configure scanning utilities, define and execute a safe computer infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to optimize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, design safe online and mobile connectivity to email and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an economical way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options include non-stop remote system monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that are compliant with regulatory security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in recovering systems and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have failed as a result of a security breach. Progent can help assess the damage caused by the breach, restore ordinary functions, and recover information lost owing to the event. Progent's security specialists can also manage a thorough failure evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing other advanced assessment techniques. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to propose effective ways to avoid or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an information system compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Expertise
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members commonly use their own devices and often operate in a unsecured physical area. This increases their susceptibility to cyber attacks and requires careful deployment of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive user training, and the development of policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran roster of Work-from-home support experts can assist your business to design, configure and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that guards vital information assets in environments that incorporate telecommuters as well as hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of all sizes a versatile and cost-effective solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving information network. In addition to optimizing the security and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT team to concentrate on more strategic initiatives and activities that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centric threat management platform that includes AI algorithms and professional services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's low-profile agents can be installed in a few minutes to protect endpoints against increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats including ransomware, familiar and brand-new malware, trojan viruses, hacking toolkits, memory exploits, malicious scripts, invasive macros, and living-off-the-land abuse. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and manages thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is invariably the initial incident response tool deployed by Progent to provide control and visibility of a client's network in the first stages of a ransomware recovery. For more information, see Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response expertise.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports continuous, simultaneous, programmable testing of your network to help you expose, prioritize, fix, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can plant so-called tripwires such as fake credentials to find out when your environment is being probed along high-risk attack paths. Tripwires generate sufficient information to make it possible to take action promptly with your incident response tools and procedures before an assailant can do serious damage. Progent can provide the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can assist you to use NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can determine your present security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your network security and can assist you to plan and deploy a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides maximum protection for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To learn additional information about Progent's threat analysis services powered by on NodeZero's PEN test platform, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Products.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Testing Services
Stealth penetration checking is a key component of any comprehensive IT system security strategy. Progent's security professionals can run extensive penetration checks without the knowledge of your company's internal IT resources. Stealth penetration checking uncovers whether current security monitoring tools such as intrusion detection warnings and event log analysis are correctly configured and actively monitored. Progent can provide ongoing automatic PEN testing to map your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, improper configurations, stolen credentials, missing patches, and unsound product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-vector attacks common to the latest strains of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth PEN Evaluation Consultants.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to manage the entire threat progression including protection, detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also assist 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 destructive security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup product vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of subscription-based management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services manage and monitor your backup processes and enable transparent backup and rapid restoration of critical files/folders, apps, system images, plus virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets you avoid data loss caused by equipment failures, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, human error, ill-intentioned 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 based on Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent expert can assist you to determine which of these managed services are most appropriate for your network.

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 leading information security companies to deliver web-based management and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo authentication service plans utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables one-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, when you log into a secured online account and give your password you are requested to confirm who you are via a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A wide range of devices can be used as this second means of authentication such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can register several verification devices. For more information about Duo identity validation services, visit Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware solution without a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time spent trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you're planning enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified engineers offer world-class expertise in vital areas of IT protection including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic system tests to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with these and similar tools and can assist you to analyze audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web software validation and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important global security specifications such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment plus mobile handsets. Learn additional details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's entire family of protection and VPN technologies including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Read more information concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
In addition to supporting a broad array of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes expert consulting for products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

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

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through verified experience, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and models, access control systems, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have been awarded ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough examination and substantial experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your organization to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all critical system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a prestigious qualification that represents mastery in IS security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant able to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, IT governance, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Consultants
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and support information system controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to create and carry out a business continuity plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management expertise is a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively assessing your IS control mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM experts for designing security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security professionals. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified security consultant has the skills appropriate to provide services in vital categories of system, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the support of certified security engineers for any of the security capabilities addressed within GIAC certification programs such as auditing security systems, incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Help
If your company is situated in Yonkers New York and you need computer security expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer 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.