Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate remote assistance with computer security problems, companies in Akron Ohio have access to expert troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service staff is available to provide fast and affordable help with security problems that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's security engineers are certified to provide help for systems based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad array of consulting services covers firewall technology, email security, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's top security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor and ISSAP.

Progent offers online security support services on a per-minute basis without minimum call duration and without extra fees for sign-up or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's pricing model keeps costs low and avoids scenarios where quick solutions entail big expenses.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do Now?
In case your network is now fighting a network security emergency, visit Progent's Emergency Online Technical Help to find out how to get fast help. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned cybersecurity experts who can provide online and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity posture to guard against future exploits.

For businesses that have planned beforehand for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of responding to a major security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Managing computer protection and preparedness for recovering critical data and systems after a security breach requires an on-going process involving an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified security experts can assist your business at whatever level in your attempt to secure your IT network, from security assessments to designing a comprehensive security program. Important areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Every organization ought to develop a carefully considered security strategy that includes both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of precautions that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy specifies activities to assist IT staff to evaluate the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive business activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your company processes. Progent can install auditing software, define and build a safe IT architecture, and propose procedures and policies to optimize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy safe online and mobile connectivity to email and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If you are looking for an economical option for jobbing out your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options include automated remote server monitoring and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud-based resources and that comply with government data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in restoring systems and computers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have failed as a result of a security breach. Progent can help evaluate the damage caused by the breach, restore normal business operations, and recover information compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's security specialists can also manage a thorough forensic evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing other proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your downtime and permits Progent to propose effective measures to prevent or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild a network damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Expertise
Work-from-Home (WFH) employees commonly utilize their personal computers and usually operate in a poorly secured physical environment. This increases their susceptibility to malware attacks and calls for judicious deployment of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the creation of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned team of telecommuter solutions consultants can assist your business to plan, configure and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that protects vital information resources in networks that include telecommuters.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of all sizes a flexible and affordable solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your dynamic information system. Besides optimizing the protection and functionality of your computer environment, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT team to focus on line-of-business projects and activities that deliver the highest business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets 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 is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire threat lifecycle including blocking, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry information security standards. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with leading backup technology companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a portfolio of offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services automate and track your data backup operations and allow non-disruptive backup and fast recovery of vital files, applications, system images, plus VMs. ProSight DPS lets your business protect against data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, human error, malicious insiders, or application bugs. Managed backup services available in the ProSight ProSight Data Protection product line include ProSight Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Total Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to determine which of these managed services are most appropriate for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound 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 vendors to provide centralized management and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Solutions
Progent's Duo authentication managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, whenever you log into a secured application and enter your password you are requested to verify who you are via a device that only you possess and that uses a separate network channel. A broad selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this added means of ID validation including a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register several verification devices. To find out more about Duo identity authentication services, see Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and safeguard data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time spent trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you're planning improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require as soon as you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers can provide unique support in vital areas of network security such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive system tests to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with testing tools and can assist you to understand audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's security consultants also can perform web application validation and can perform expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key worldwide security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Find out the details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class consulting support for Cisco's entire family of protection and VPN solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Get more information concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and VPN Technologies
As well as supporting a broad range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size expert support for technologies from other major firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic skills and international benchmarks of service that information security managers are required to master. It offers executive management the confidence that consultants who have earned their certification have the experience and skill to offer efficient security management and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM consultant to help your enterprise in critical security areas including data protection governance, risk assessment, information protection program management, and incident response support.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and models, access control methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Read more details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification following thorough examination and extensive experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the services associated with 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 expert to assist your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a recognized qualification that signifies mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has candidates pass an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant trained to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit services, IT administration, systems and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting information assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and execute a business continuity plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation services are complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively evaluating your IT management mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing company-wide security policies.

Get more information concerning Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Consulting.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the skill of computer security experts. GIAC's mission is to assure that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to provide support in key areas of network, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions all over the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified consultants for all of the security capabilities addressed under GIAC accreditation programs including auditing networks, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your company is situated in Akron Ohio and you're looking for network security consulting expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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