For fast online assistance with computer security problems, companies in Akron, OH, can find expert troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support staff is available to offer fast and low-cost help with security issues that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of services covers firewall configuration, email security, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security accreditations including GIAC and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides online security support services on a per-minute basis without minimum times and without additional charges for setup or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses low and avoids situations where simple solutions turn into major charges.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do Now?
Cybersecurity ConsultantsIn case your network is now fighting a network security crisis, go to Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to see how to receive immediate help. Progent maintains a team of certified cybersecurity experts who offer online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to protect against future attacks.

For businesses that have prepared in advance for a security breech, the formal post-attack handling model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Managing data protection plus planning for restoring critical data and functions after a security breach requires an on-going process involving an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified security experts can help your business at whatever level in your efforts to guard your information network, from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Key areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Threats.

Planning and Implementing Protected Environments
Every organization ought to develop a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to help security staff to evaluate the losses caused by an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and revive network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your company operations. Progent can install scanning utilities, define and implement a safe network architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to maximize the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to set up a firewall, design protected offsite access to e-mail and information, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an affordable option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages include automated remote network tracking and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud resources and that are compliant with government and industry security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in recovering networks and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have failed as a result of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses resulting from the attack, restore ordinary functions, and recover information lost as a result of the breach. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a comprehensive failure analysis by going over event logs and using other advanced assessment techniques. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to propose efficient strategies to prevent or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to rebuild an environment victimized by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations 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 Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to automate the entire threat progression including blocking, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and allows fast recovery of critical files, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged as a result of component failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FINRA, and PCI and, when necessary, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of top information security companies to provide web-based control and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

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 organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as half of time wasted trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need when you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants can provide unique consulting support in vital areas of IT protection including:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive system scans to identify potential security holes. Progent has broad experience with these and similar utilities and can help you to analyze audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also can perform web software validation and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major industry security specifications such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless equipment as well as portable devices. Read more details concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and IS routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn additional details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
As well as being expert in a broad array of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes advanced consulting for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

Unannounced Penetration Checking Services
Stealth penetration testing is a vital method for helping companies to understand how vulnerable their networks are to real-world threats by testing how effectively network security procedures and technologies hold up against planned but unannounced intrusion attempts instigated by veteran security engineers using the latest hacking methods. Get additional information concerning Progent's Penetration Testing Services.

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Consultants for Akron, OhioCertified Information Security Manager defines the basic competencies and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information security managers are required to achieve. CISM provides business management the confidence that consultants who have earned their CISM have the experience and knowledge to offer efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to assist your organization in key security disciplines including data security governance, vulnerability management, data security process control, and incident response support.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
CISSP Premier System Security Consultants for Akron, OhioProgent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated experience, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include security management practices, security design and test systems, access control systems, software development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Read more information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
CISSP Information Systems Security Architecture Professionals for Akron, OhioProgent's ISSAP Certified security experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP status as a result of thorough testing and extensive hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Find out additional details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
CISSP-ISSEP certified Network Security ConsultantsCybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your organization to utilize modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Systems Auditor Engineers for Akron, OhioThe Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is an important achievement that represents mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass an extensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, IT enforcement, systems and architecture planned useful life, information technology service delivery, protecting information resources, and business continuity planning.

Find out additional information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise.

CRISC IT Risk Management Specialists
CRISC-certified Network Risk Experts for Akron, OhioThe CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and maintain IS controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially assessing your IT control design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for implementing security policies.

Find out more information about Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Support.

GIAC Professional Expertise
Network Security Engineers with GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) for Akron, OhioGIAC was established in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security engineers. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited security consultant has the knowledge necessary to deliver support in vital areas of system, information, and program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the security disciplines covered under GIAC certification topics such as auditing networks, security incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Support
If your organization is located in Akron or elsewhere in the state of Ohio and you want computer security support services, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.