Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote assistance with network security issues, businesses in Addison Texas have access to expert support from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are ready to provide effective and affordable assistance with security problems that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to support systems powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected network infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has earned the world's top security credentials including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides remote security support services on a per-minute model without minimum minutes and without extra charges for setup or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where quick solutions result in major expenses.

We've Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
If your business is currently faced with a security emergency, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Support to see how to receive immediate help. Progent has a team of certified network security specialists who can provide remote and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future attacks.

For businesses who have planned beforehand for a security breech, the step-by-step incident response procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of responding to a major security penetration.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Coordinating data security plus planning for restoring vital information and systems after an attack requires a continual process involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security professionals can assist your organization at whatever level in your attempt to protect your information network, from security audits to creating a complete security plan. Some technologies covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Borne Threats.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Every organization ought to develop a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive steps. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that works to minimize security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to help IT staff to evaluate the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your business processes. Progent can set up scanning software, define and build a safe computer architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy safe remote connectivity to email and data, and configure an effective VPN.

If you are looking for an affordable way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services feature non-stop remote network monitoring and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with government data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in recovering systems and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working following a security penetration. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage caused by the assault, restore ordinary functions, and recover data compromised as a result of the assault. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a thorough failure analysis by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your downtime and permits Progent to propose efficient measures to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore a network compromised by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight family of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including protection, detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent can also help your company to install and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-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 rapid restoration of critical files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can provide advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to recover your business-critical data. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

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 information security vendors to provide web-based management and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware solution without a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Find out more 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 create, maintain, find and protect data related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need when you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified engineers offer world-class specialized help in vital areas of IT security including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of comprehensive system tests to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with testing tools and can assist you to analyze audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web application testing and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with key worldwide security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Read more details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth consulting services for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Learn additional details concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
In addition to supporting a wide range of network security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size expert engineering services for technologies from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Consulting
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the fundamental competencies and international benchmarks of performance that IT security professionals are expected to achieve. CISM provides executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM have the experience and knowledge to provide effective security administration and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM support professional to assist your organization in vital security areas such as data protection governance, vulnerability management, data protection program control, and crisis response management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included within CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and test systems, connection control systems, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have been awarded ISSAP accreditation following thorough examination and extensive hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your enterprise to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all critical system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that signifies expertise in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo an extensive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security professional trained to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, information technology administration, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to design, implement, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively auditing your IT control mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for designing security policies.

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GIAC Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited security consultant possesses the skills necessary to deliver services in important categories of network, information, and software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the assistance of certified consultants for all of the network security services covered under GIAC accreditation programs including assessing perimeters, security incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Support
If your company is located in Addison Texas and you want computer security support services, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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