Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote help with computer security problems, companies in Akron Ohio have access to world-class support from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online support staff is available to offer effective and low-cost help with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's security consultants are premier to support systems powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the world's top security certifications including CISM and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent offers remote security help on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum call duration and no additional charges for sign-up or off-hour support. By billing per minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses low and avoids situations where simple fixes turn into big expenses.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
If your network is currently experiencing a security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Computer Support to see how to get immediate assistance. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned network security experts who can provide remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For businesses that have prepared beforehand for a security breech, the formal incident response procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating computer security plus preparation for restoring vital data and systems following an attack requires an on-going program involving a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified security consultants can help your business at all levels in your efforts to guard your information system, from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security plan. Important areas supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Every organization ought to develop a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive activity. The proactive plan is a set of precautions that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies procedures to assist IT staff to inventory the losses resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, document the experience, and revive network activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your business operations. Progent can configure auditing utilities, define and implement a secure computer architecture, and recommend processes and policies to optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to configure a firewall, design safe offsite connectivity to email and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an economical way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services include continual online network tracking and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in recovering networks and servers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have stopped working following a security penetration. Progent can help assess the losses caused by the attack, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a thorough forensic analysis by examining event logs and using other proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest effective strategies to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is intended 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 Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to manage the entire malware attack lifecycle including protection, detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent can also help you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and allows rapid restoration of vital data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to restore your business-critical data. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver web-based management and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit 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 or mid-size business can have its key servers and apps 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 service model, the client owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, retrieve and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time thrown away searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require the instant you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers offer unique specialized help in vital facets of computer protection such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with security auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive network scans to identify possible security problems. Progent has broad experience with these utilities and can assist your company to analyze audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web application validation and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important worldwide security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless appliances as well as portable devices. Read the details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class consulting support for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network products such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and IS routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Find out additional information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a wide array of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size expert consulting for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

CISM Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the fundamental skills and international benchmarks of service that information technology security professionals are required to achieve. It offers business management the confidence that consultants who have earned their accreditation have the experience and skill to offer efficient security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to assist your enterprise in vital security areas such as information protection governance, vulnerability management, data security process management, and incident handling management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered within CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and models, access permission systems, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation after thorough examination and substantial hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Learn the details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected IT Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations 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 network security expert to help your organization to follow modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The CISA credential is a recognized qualification that signifies mastery in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has candidates pass an extensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant able to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, IT enforcement, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology support, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to design, implement, and maintain IS controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and execute a business continuity strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively assessing your IT management design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the skill of computer security engineers. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills appropriate to deliver support in critical areas of network, information, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the assistance of certified security engineers for all of the security disciplines covered within GIAC accreditation programs including auditing perimeters, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Support
If your organization is located in Akron Ohio and you're looking for computer security consulting, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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