Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate online help with network security issues, businesses in Akron Ohio have access to expert support by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online support staff is ready to provide efficient and affordable assistance with security issues that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to provide help for environments powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services covers firewall configuration, email security, secure system architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support team has earned the world's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers remote security assistance on a per-minute basis with no minimum minutes and no extra charges for setup or off-hour support. By charging by the minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's pricing model keeps costs under control and eliminates scenarios where quick fixes result in major expenses.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Should We Do Now?
If your network is now experiencing a security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Online Computer Help to find out how to receive fast aid. Progent maintains a pool of certified cybersecurity specialists who can provide remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have prepared in advance for a security breech, the step-by-step post-attack response model outlined by GIAC is Progent's approved method of responding to a major security incident.

Overview of Security Expertise
Managing data security and staying ready for recovering vital information and functions following an attack demands an on-going effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified engineers can assist your organization at whatever level in your attempt to protect your IT system, from security assessments to creating a complete security program. Some technologies covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Every business ought to develop a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that works to minimize security gaps. The post-attack strategy 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 quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your business processes. Progent can install scanning utilities, create and execute a secure IT architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will maximize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to set up a firewall, deploy safe offsite access to email and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages feature non-stop remote system tracking and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with regulatory data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in recovering networks and servers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have ceased to function because of a security breach. Progent can help assess the losses caused by the assault, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve data lost as a result of the assault. Progent's security engineers can also perform a comprehensive forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and using other proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security problems reduces your downtime and permits Progent to propose effective ways to avoid or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore a network victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware removal and recovery services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete malware attack lifecycle including protection, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer economical in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent can also assist your company to install and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and allows rapid restoration of critical files, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted due to hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory standards like HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading data security companies to provide centralized control and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware environment without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure 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, find and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time wasted searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security engineers offer unique support in key facets of network security such as:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic system scans to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with testing utilities and can help you to analyze audit results and react appropriately. Progent's security consultants also can perform web software validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key worldwide security specifications such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless equipment plus portable devices. Find out the details about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class technical services for Cisco's entire family of security and VPN products including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Get additional information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a broad range of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes expert support for security products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Expertise
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the core skills and international standards of service that information security professionals are required to achieve. It offers executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM possess the experience and knowledge to provide effective security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM consultant to help your organization in key security disciplines such as information security governance, risk management, data protection process control, and crisis response management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP status through demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and models, access control methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out more details concerning Progent's CISSP Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants have earned ISSAP certification after rigorous testing and extensive experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Find out additional details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure System Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide large organizations with the services 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 expert to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that represents expertise in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit professional trained to help companies in the fields of information systems audit services, IT administration, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to verify a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk management expertise is complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially assessing your IS control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for defining company-wide security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security professionals. GIAC's goal is to ensure that an accredited security consultant possesses the skills needed to provide support in vital areas of system, information, and software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of certified security engineers for any of the security capabilities addressed under GIAC certification topics including auditing security systems, security incident response, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your business is located in Akron Ohio and you're looking for computer security consulting, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the state of Ohio.