Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote help with network security problems, companies in Alexandria Virginia have access to expert expertise by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are available to offer effective and affordable assistance with security crises that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to support environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide range of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email security, protected system infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the industry's most advanced security certifications including CISA and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers online security support on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum minutes and no extra charges for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions entail major charges.

We've Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
In case you are currently fighting a network security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Online Technical Help to find out how to get immediate assistance. Progent has a pool of certified network security specialists who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies who have prepared in advance for a security breech, the step-by-step incident handling model promoted by GIAC is Progent's approved method of responding to a major security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Coordinating computer protection as well as staying ready for recovering critical information and functions after a security breach demands a continual program that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified engineers can assist your business at whatever level in your attempt to protect your IT system, ranging from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Some areas supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Protected Networks
Any business ought to have a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive elements. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to help security staff to evaluate the losses caused by a breach, repair the damage, record the experience, and revive network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning software, create and execute a safe computer architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will enhance the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy secure online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an economical way for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages feature automated online server tracking and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that are compliant with government security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in recovering systems and servers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have failed as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to assess the damage caused by the breach, restore normal functions, and retrieve information compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a thorough failure analysis by going over event logs and utilizing other proven assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your downtime and allows Progent to suggest efficient strategies to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an information system damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Work-from-Home Security Solutions
Work-from-Home employees typically use their personal computing devices and often operate in a unsecured physical space. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to malware attacks and requires judicious configuration of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, intensive user education, and the creation of security policies based on best practices. Progent's veteran team of Work-from-home support consultants can assist your business to plan, deploy and manage a compliant security solution that protects critical information resources in environments that incorporate telecommuters.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management provide businesses of any size a flexible and affordable alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving IT system. Besides maximizing the protection and functionality of your IT network, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your in-house IT team to focus on line-of-business initiatives and activities that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.

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

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior analysis tools to defend endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to manage the complete threat progression including blocking, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
Progent has worked with advanced backup product companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a portfolio of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services manage and track your backup operations and enable transparent backup and fast restoration of critical files, apps, images, and virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets your business protect against data loss resulting from equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, malware like ransomware, user error, malicious employees, or application glitches. Managed backup services in the ProSight DPS selection include ProSight Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Backup, ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent expert can help you to determine which of these managed services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading information security vendors to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and blocks most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity verification with iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected online account and give your password you are requested to verify your identity via a device that only you have and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A wide range of devices can be used for this added form of ID validation such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register several verification devices. For details about Duo two-factor identity validation services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for an at-home workforce.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and protect data about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains and warranties. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time thrown away searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you�re planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require as soon as you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants can provide world-class support in vital areas of network security such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a set of automatic system tests to uncover possible security problems. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar utilities and can assist you to understand assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's security consultants also provide web application validation and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important global security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless appliances plus portable devices. Get additional details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth technical support for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Get more information concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
As well as supporting a broad array of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size advanced consulting for security products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Help

CISM Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the basic competencies and international benchmarks of performance that information technology security professionals are required to achieve. CISM offers business management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their accreditation possess the background and skill to provide efficient security administration and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to assist your enterprise in vital security disciplines including information protection governance, risk management, information protection program control, and crisis handling management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have earned CISSP certification through verified experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and models, connection permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out more details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough testing and extensive experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a recognized qualification that indicates mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security consultant able to help companies in the areas of information systems audit process, information technology administration, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk management expertise is a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively assessing your IS 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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GIAC Support Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified professional possesses the knowledge appropriate to provide services in key areas of system, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified consultants for all of the security capabilities covered under GIAC certification topics including auditing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Help
If your company is situated in Alexandria Virginia and you're trying to find computer security expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit 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.