Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote assistance with data security issues, companies in Akron Ohio have access to world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online service staff is available to offer effective and low-cost assistance with security problems that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for environments based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services covers firewall expertise, email security, secure system infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the world's top security certifications including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides remote security expertise on a by-the-minute model with no minimum times and without extra fees for setup or after hours support. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs under control and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions result in major bills.

We've Been Hacked: What Can We Do Now?
If your network is currently faced with a network security emergency, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Support to find out how to get fast assistance. Progent maintains a pool of certified network security specialists who offer online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies who have planned carefully for an attack, the formal post-attack handling procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a serious security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Managing data security plus preparation for restoring vital data and functions following a security breach requires a continual process involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can support your business at whatever level in your attempt to secure your information system, ranging from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security program. Important areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Any organization ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both proactive and reactive elements. The proactive strategy is a set of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines activities to assist IT staff to assess the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and restore network activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your business processes. Progent can install auditing software, create and implement a secure IT infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies that will optimize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to set up a firewall, design secure online and mobile access to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient VPN.

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

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud hosted resources and that are compliant with government and industry data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in recovering systems and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have ceased to function following a security breakdown. Progent can help determine the losses resulting from the assault, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover information lost owing to the breach. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough forensic evaluation by going over event logs and using a variety of proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to recommend effective strategies to avoid or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to manage the entire malware attack lifecycle including blocking, detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent can also help you to install and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and allows rapid recovery of vital data, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your business-critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

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 provide web-based control and comprehensive protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, find and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time thrown away looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re making 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 veteran consultants offer unique support in vital areas of network security including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a set of automatic network tests to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with testing tools and can help your company to understand audit reports and respond appropriately. Progent's security consultants also can perform web software validation and can conduct expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major worldwide security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Find out the details about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth technical services for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out the details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to supporting a broad range of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size top-level engineering services for technologies from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services
CISM defines the core skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that information security managers are expected to master. It provides executive management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their accreditation possess the background and knowledge to provide effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM consultant to help your enterprise in critical security disciplines including information protection governance, risk management, data protection process control, and crisis response management.

Learn the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and models, connection permission methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP status following rigorous testing and significant experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts have in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise associated with 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 organization to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, define efficient design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

Find out the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a recognized qualification that represents expertise in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has candidates undergo a comprehensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security consultant able to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, IT administration, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology support, protecting data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and support information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and execute a business continuity plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially auditing your IS control mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for designing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Professional Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of computer security professionals. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified professional possesses the skills needed to deliver services in critical categories of system, information, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified consultants for any of the security services addressed under GIAC accreditation programs including assessing IT infrastructure, incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your business is located in Akron Ohio and you're looking for computer security support services, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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