Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote help with computer security problems, companies in Alexandria Virginia have access to expert expertise from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are ready to offer effective and economical assistance with security crises that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's security consultants are certified to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure system architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager and CISSP.

Progent offers remote security support services on a by-the-minute model with no minimum times and no extra fees for sign-up or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where simple solutions result in big charges.

We've Been Hacked: What Do We Do?
In case your network is now experiencing a network security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Support to learn how to get immediate help. Progent maintains a team of certified network security experts who can provide remote and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For businesses who have prepared beforehand for a security breech, the step-by-step incident handling model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of responding to a major security attack.

Overview of Security Services
Managing computer protection and preparedness for restoring vital data and functions after a security breach requires a continual program involving an array of technologies and processes. Progent's security experts can support your organization at any level in your efforts to guard your IT system, ranging from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Some areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Environments
Every organization ought to develop a carefully thought out security strategy that includes both preventive and reactive elements. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies procedures to assist IT personnel to assess the losses resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, document the experience, and revive network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to build security into your company operations. Progent can install scanning software, create and execute a safe computer architecture, and propose processes and policies that will enhance the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to set up a firewall, design protected offsite connectivity to email and information, and configure an efficient VPN.

If you are interested in an economical way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services include automated remote system monitoring and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with government data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in restoring systems and servers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have ceased to function as a result of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to assess the losses caused by the attack, restore normal functions, and recover information compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a comprehensive forensic analysis by examining activity logs and using a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend efficient ways to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct a network victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight series 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 and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates next generation behavior analysis tools to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape legacy signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including blocking, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time network-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data protection regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to install and verify a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like 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
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and enables fast restoration of vital files, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to component breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can deliver advanced support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to recover your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of leading data security vendors to provide centralized management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit 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 or mid-size business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting solution without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, find and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time thrown away trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants offer unique expertise in vital facets of IT security such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a set of comprehensive system scans to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with these tools and can help your company to understand audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also can perform web application testing and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major worldwide security specifications such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Find out more details about Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical support for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network technologies such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Learn more details about Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and VPN Technologies
As well as supporting a broad array of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size advanced engineering services for solutions from other popular firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services
CISM defines the core skills and international standards of service that information technology security managers are expected to achieve. It offers business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their CISM have the experience and knowledge to provide effective security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to help your organization in key security disciplines including information protection governance, vulnerability management, information protection process control, and incident response management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and models, access control methodology, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of rigorous examination and significant experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Learn the details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected Network Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide large organizations 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 skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your enterprise to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a recognized qualification that signifies expertise in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has candidates pass a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant able to help companies in the fields of IS audit services, IT governance, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Management Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and maintain IS controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively assessing your IS management design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security engineers. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver support in vital areas of network, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified professionals for any of the network security capabilities addressed within GIAC accreditation programs including assessing IT infrastructure, security incident response, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your company is situated in Alexandria Virginia and you want cybersecurity help, 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.