To get immediate online help with computer security issues, businesses in Alexandria, VA, have access to world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote support staff is available to provide effective and low-cost assistance with security crises that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's security consultants are certified to support environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services covers firewall expertise, email security, secure system design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's top security credentials including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides online security support on a by-the-minute basis without minimum times and no additional charges for sign-up or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where quick fixes result in big bills.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Should We Do Now?
Network Security ConsultantsIf your business is now faced with a network security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Network Support to learn how to receive fast aid. Progent maintains a team of seasoned cybersecurity specialists who offer online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future attacks.

For businesses who have planned carefully for a security breech, the formal incident handling procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of handling a major security incident.

Overview of Security Services
Coordinating network protection and preparation for restoring critical data and systems following a security breach demands a continual effort that entails a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security professionals can assist your organization at any level in your efforts to safeguard your information system, ranging from security audits to designing a complete security program. Important technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from Email-Borne Threats.

Planning and Implementing Protected Networks
Every business ought to have a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive steps. The proactive strategy is a set of steps that helps to minimize security gaps. The post-attack plan defines activities to help IT staff to assess the damage caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can configure scanning utilities, create and implement a safe network architecture, and propose procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design protected online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an economical option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages feature automated remote server monitoring and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with regulatory data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in recovering networks and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have ceased to function as a result of a security penetration. Progent can help determine the damage caused by the attack, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a thorough failure analysis by examining event logs and utilizing other advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to propose effective ways to prevent or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to rebuild a network victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of managed 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. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates next generation behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete malware attack lifecycle including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer economical multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for immediate attention. Progent can also help your company to install and test a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and enables fast recovery of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware failures, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards such as HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your business-critical data. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services 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 uses the technology of leading data security companies to provide web-based control and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting solution without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to 50% of time spent searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require when you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

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

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of automatic network scans to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with these and similar utilities and can help you to understand assessment results and react appropriately. Progent's security consultants also can perform web software validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important worldwide security specifications such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances plus mobile devices. Find out additional details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical support for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Read the details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
As well as supporting a wide range of protection solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size top-level support for products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

Unannounced Intrusion Checking Services
Unannounced penetration testing is a key method for allowing companies to find out how vulnerable their IT systems are to potential threats by revealing how thoroughly network security policies and technologies stand up to authorized but unannounced penetration efforts launched by seasoned security engineers utilizing advanced hacking techniques. Read additional details about Progent's Penetration Testing Services.

CISM Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager Consultants for Alexandria, VirginiaCISM identifies the basic skills and international benchmarks of performance that computer security managers are expected to achieve. CISM offers executive management the confidence that consultants who have earned their accreditation have the background and knowledge to offer efficient security administration and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to assist your enterprise in key security areas including information security governance, risk assessment, data security process control, and crisis response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
CISSP Premier Network Security Experts for Alexandria, VirginiaProgent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation through verified experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included within CISSP include security management procedures, security design and models, connection control methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
CISSP Information Systems Security Architecture Professionals (ISSAP) for Alexandria, VirginiaProgent's ISSAP Premier security consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation after rigorous examination and extensive experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Learn additional information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected IT Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
CISSP-ISSEP certified Network Security ExpertsCybersecurity 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your organization to utilize modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Support Expertise
Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Engineers for Alexandria, VirginiaThe Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is an important qualification that indicates expertise in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has candidates undergo an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security professional trained to assist companies in the fields of IS audit services, information technology governance, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT support, protecting data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Experts
CRISC-certified Network Risk Engineers for Alexandria, VirginiaThe Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially assessing your IT management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for designing security policies.

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GIAC Professional Expertise
Network Security Engineers with Global Information Assurance Certification for Alexandria, VirginiaGIAC was established in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver services in critical categories of network, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and institutions all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the help of certified consultants for all of the security services addressed within GIAC accreditation topics including auditing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your business is located in Alexandria or elsewhere in the state of Virginia and you need computer security consulting, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see 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.

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Progent locations in the Greater Washington DC Metro Area

City Street Address Contact Information
Alexandria 2800 Eisenhower Ave
Suite 220
Alexandria, Virginia 22314		 Sales Phone: 571-302-7958

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Reston One Freedom Square
11951 Freedom Drive
13th Floor
Reston, Virginia 20190		 Sales Phone: 571-392-5565

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Baltimore 300 E. Lombard St
Suite 840
Baltimore, Maryland 21202		 Sales Phone: 571-392-5565

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Rockville 9841 Washingtonian Blvd
Suite 200
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878		 Sales Phone: 240-454-0044

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Washington, DC Metro Center
1629 K St NW
Suite 300
Washington, District of Columbia 20006		 Sales Phone: 202-851-2383

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