Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate remote assistance with network security problems, businesses in Alexandria Virginia have access to expert expertise from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are ready to offer effective and economical help with security emergencies that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's security engineers are premier to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services addresses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected system design, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including CISM and CISSP.

Progent offers online security assistance on a per-minute basis with no minimum minutes and without additional fees for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where quick solutions entail big bills.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
In case you are currently experiencing a network security emergency, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Support to learn how to get immediate help. Progent has a team of veteran network security specialists who can provide remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For companies who have planned in advance for being hacked, the formal incident handling model outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Coordinating network security plus staying ready for restoring critical information and systems after a security breach requires a continual program involving an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified consultants can support your business at whatever level in your efforts to secure your IT network, ranging from security assessments to designing a complete security program. Key areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Every company should develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and reactive steps. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that works to minimize security gaps. The post-attack strategy defines activities to assist security personnel to assess the damage caused by a breach, remediate the damage, document the event, and revive network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your business operations. Progent can set up scanning software, create and implement a safe network infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to set up a firewall, design safe remote connectivity to email and data, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services include non-stop remote system tracking and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and computers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function as a result of a security breach. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage caused by the breach, restore ordinary functions, and recover information lost owing to the breach. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing other advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to suggest efficient measures to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an information system victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and restoration services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior analysis technology to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to manage the entire malware attack progression including blocking, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer affordable in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent accessible from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, 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 solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and allows fast recovery of critical files, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading data security vendors to deliver web-based control and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays within your corporate firewall. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance 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 operating system platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting environment without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting provider. Find out more details 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 allows you to create, update, find and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time thrown away trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants offer unique support in vital facets of IT protection including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with information risk evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a set of comprehensive system tests to identify possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with these tools and can assist you to analyze assessment results and react appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web application testing and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major industry security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment as well as mobile devices. Learn more information concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class technical services for Cisco's complete range of security and VPN technologies such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Get the details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a broad range of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes top-level engineering services for solutions from other popular firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Engineering Services

CISM Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the core competencies and worldwide benchmarks of performance that computer security professionals are expected to achieve. CISM provides executive management the confidence that those who have earned their CISM have the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security administration and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM consultant to help your enterprise in vital security areas such as information security governance, risk assessment, data security program control, and incident response management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have earned CISSP status through verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security design and models, connection control methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants have been awarded ISSAP status after thorough examination and significant hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can help your company with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises with the services expected of 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 network security consultant to assist your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a globally recognized qualification that represents mastery in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that consultants pass a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security professional able to help businesses in the areas of IS audit services, IT enforcement, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, IT support, protecting data resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and execute a business continuity plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk management expertise is a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively assessing your IT management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security engineers. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified professional possesses the skills needed to provide services in critical areas of network, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations around the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the network security disciplines covered within GIAC certification topics including assessing perimeters, incident response, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Support
If your business is situated in Alexandria Virginia and you're looking for cybersecurity expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Greater Washington DC Metro Area including suburban Maryland and Virginia.