Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote assistance with data security problems, companies in Akron Ohio have access to world-class support from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service staff is ready to provide fast and affordable assistance with security emergencies that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security engineers are certified to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of consulting services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected network design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides remote security expertise on a per-minute basis without minimum call duration and without additional charges for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses low and avoids scenarios where quick solutions result in big charges.

We've Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
If your network is now experiencing a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Support to see how to receive fast assistance. Progent has a pool of seasoned network security experts who offer online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies that have planned beforehand for being hacked, the step-by-step incident response procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Managing computer protection and staying ready for restoring vital data and systems after an attack requires a continual effort involving an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified professionals can assist your business at whatever level in your efforts to secure your information network, ranging from security audits to designing a comprehensive security program. Some areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Secure Networks
Every organization ought to have a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both proactive and reactive steps. The proactive plan is a collection of precautions that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies activities to assist IT staff to assess the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore network activity as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your company operations. Progent can configure auditing utilities, create and build a safe computer infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies that will optimize the safety of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, design protected remote connectivity to email and information, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an economical option for jobbing out your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages include automated online network tracking and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud hosted resources and that are compliant with government security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in recovering systems and computers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have failed as a result of a security penetration. Progent can help determine the damage resulting from the breach, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve data lost owing to the assault. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a thorough failure evaluation by examining event logs and using a variety of advanced assessment techniques. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to propose efficient measures to prevent or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an IT network damaged by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network monitoring and management 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 and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by traditional signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete threat progression including protection, identification, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and enables fast restoration of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can provide world-class expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can assist you to recover your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top data security companies to deliver web-based management and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks most threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware environment without a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and protect information about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time thrown away searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer unique support in vital areas of computer security such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of automatic network scans to identify potential security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with scanning tools and can assist your company to analyze assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also offer web application testing and can perform thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important industry security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment as well as portable handsets. Learn additional details about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class consulting support for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Read more information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
In addition to being expert in a wide range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size expert support for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
CISM defines the core skills and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information security professionals are expected to achieve. CISM provides business management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their CISM have the background and knowledge to offer effective security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to assist your organization in critical security disciplines including data security governance, vulnerability management, information security program control, and crisis response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have earned CISSP certification as a result of verified experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security architecture and models, connection control systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification after thorough examination and substantial experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth understanding of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Learn additional information concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure Network Infrastructure Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

Find out more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting Services.

CISA Security Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is an important qualification that represents expertise in IS security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that candidates pass an extensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional trained to help businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, IT enforcement, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Find out more information about Progent's CISA Consulting Expertise.

CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and support information system control mechanisms 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 plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially assessing your IT management design and with the services of Progent's CISM experts for implementing security policies.

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GIAC Professional Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified security consultant has the skills necessary to deliver services in important categories of system, information, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified consultants for any of the security capabilities addressed under GIAC certification programs including auditing security systems, incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Akron Ohio and you need network security support services, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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