For fast remote assistance with network security issues, businesses in Alexandria Virginia have access to expert troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to offer effective and low-cost assistance with security emergencies that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's security engineers are premier to support environments based on Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and major versions of UNIX. Progent can provide expert help for key cybersecurity and restoration technologies like AI-driven End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), complete system restore validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide array of services addresses firewall configuration, email security, secure system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security accreditations including CISM and CISSP.
Progent provides online security expertise on a per-minute model with no minimum minutes and without extra fees for sign-up or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses low and avoids scenarios where simple fixes result in big bills.
Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to work its way across a network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are commonly launched on weekends and at night, when IT staff are likely to take longer to recognize a breach and are less able to organize a quick and forceful response. The more lateral progress ransomware is able to manage within a victim's network, the longer it takes to restore basic operations and scrambled files and the more data can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to assist you to complete the time-critical first phase in responding to a ransomware assault by stopping the bleeding. Progent's online ransomware engineers can help you to locate and isolate infected servers and endpoints and protect clean assets from being penetrated. If your system has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.
Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do?
If you are now faced with a security emergency other than ransomware, visit Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to learn how to get immediate aid. Progent maintains a team of seasoned cybersecurity experts who offer remote and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.
For organizations who have planned beforehand for an attack, the formal incident handling model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of responding to a major security penetration.
Introduction to Security Support Services
Managing computer security and preparedness for recovering vital data and functions after an attack demands an on-going effort that entails a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's security consultants can support your business at whatever level in your attempt to protect your IT network, ranging from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Key areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Spam and Viruses.
Designing and Implementing Protected Networks
Every business ought to develop a carefully thought out security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive elements. The proactive strategy is a set of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to assist IT personnel to evaluate the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore business activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your company processes. Progent can set up auditing software, define and implement a safe computer architecture, and recommend processes and policies to maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to help you to set up a firewall, deploy secure remote access to email and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).
If your company is interested in an economical option for jobbing out your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options feature automated online server monitoring and fast response to emergencies.
Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with regulatory security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 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 consulting.)
System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in restoring networks and devices that have been hacked, are in question, or have ceased to function because of a security breach. Progent can show you how to determine the damage resulting from the attack, restore normal functions, and retrieve information lost as a result of the event. Progent's security specialists can also manage a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's background with security issues reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to recommend efficient strategies to avoid or contain new assaults.
Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an IT network damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware removal and recovery consulting.
Work-from-Home Cybersecurity Solutions
At-home workers commonly use their personal computers and usually work in a poorly secured physical space. This increases their susceptibility to malware attacks and requires judicious configuration of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the creation of security policies built on best practices. Progent's veteran team of Work-from-home solutions consultants can help you to plan, configure and maintain an effective cybersecurity solution that protects critical IT assets in environments that include telecommuters as well as hybrid workers.
Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of all sizes a flexible and affordable solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and tracking software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving information network. In addition to maximizing the security and functionality of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services free up time for your in-house IT team to focus on line-of-business initiatives and tasks that derive the highest business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.
Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centric threat defense stack that includes AI software and advanced services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's compact software agents can be loaded in minutes to protect endpoints against increasingly sophisticated assaults such as ransomware, known and brand-new malware, trojan viruses, hacking toolkits, memory exploits, script misuse, invasive macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and reseller and manages thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is invariably the first incident response software activated by Progent to provide control and visibility of a customer's network in the first stages of a ransomware recovery. For more details, see Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions.
Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, concurrent, programmable testing of your internal and perimeter network to help you expose, rank, remediate, and verify cybersecurity weaknesses before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent offers the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can help you to use NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to strengthen your existing network security and can assist you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To learn more details about Progent's vulnerability analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.
Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Assessment Services
Stealth penetration testing is an important part of any overall IT system security strategy. Progent's security experts can perform thorough intrusion tests without the awareness of your organization's in-house network support staff. Unannounced penetration testing uncovers whether current security defense tools such as intrusion detection warnings and event log analysis are properly set up and consistently monitored. Progent can provide continuous autonomous PEN testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, improper configurations, stolen credentials, overlooked patches, and unsound IT product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-vector attacks common to the latest strains of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth Penetration Evaluation Experts.
Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of network monitoring and management services is intended 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: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack lifecycle including protection, detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique needs and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that require urgent attention. Progent can also assist you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's
ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with leading backup/restore technology companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a family of offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS products automate and track your data backup operations and enable transparent backup and fast recovery of critical files, apps, system images, and VMs. ProSight DPS lets your business protect against data loss resulting from hardware failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, human error, malicious employees, or software bugs. Managed backup services in the ProSight DPS family include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to determine which of these managed backup services are best suited for your IT environment.
ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of top information security vendors to provide centralized management and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer 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 malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays within your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.
ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo authentication managed services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity verification on iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured application and give your password you are requested to verify who you are via a device that only you possess and that uses a different network channel. A wide selection of devices can be used as this second form of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can register several verification devices. For details about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for telecommuters.
ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. 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 makes it easy to capture, maintain, find and safeguard information about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time spent trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you're planning enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need as soon as you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.
Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants can provide world-class support in vital areas of IT security including:
Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive system tests to reveal potential security holes. Progent has broad skills with these tools and can assist you to understand assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's security consultants also provide web application validation and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important global security specifications such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances as well as mobile handsets. Learn additional information about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.
Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's entire family of security and VPN technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Read additional information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Expertise.
Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
In addition to being expert in a broad range of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size top-level engineering services for technologies from other popular firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:
Get additional information concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Assistance.
Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP status official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and models, connection control methodology, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.
Read more details about Progent's CISSP Consulting Expertise.
CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have earned ISSAP certification after rigorous examination and extensive experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth understanding of access management systems and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.
Read the details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected Network Infrastructure Engineering Services.
CISSP-ISSEP Certified 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 expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.
Find out the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting Services.
CISA Security Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a recognized achievement that represents mastery in information system security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has consultants pass an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security professional able to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology administration, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting data resources, and business continuity planning.
Learn the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise.
CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially auditing your IS management design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.
Read more information concerning Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Support.
Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security engineers. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited professional possesses the knowledge necessary to provide support in key areas of system, data, and application software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions throughout the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the expertise of certified consultants for all of the network security capabilities covered within GIAC certification programs including assessing IT infrastructure, incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.
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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your business is located in Alexandria Virginia and you're trying to find network security support services, call Progent at
Washington DC Metro Area Contact Information:
Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Greater Washington DC Metro Area including suburban Maryland and Virginia.
City | Address | Phone | Link |
Alexandria | 2800 Eisenhower Ave, Suite 220 Alexandria, VA 22314 United States |
(517) 302-7958 | Alexandria Network Support Services |
Baltimore | 300 E. Lombard St, Suite 840 Baltimore, MD 21202 United States |
(667) 771-9100 | Baltimore Network Support Services |
Reston | One Freedom Square, 11951 Freedom Drive, 13th Floor Reston, VA 20190 United States |
(571) 392-5565 | Reston Network Support Services |
Rockville | 1 Research Court, Suite 450 Rockville, MD 20850 United States |
(240) 454-0044 | Rockville Network Support Services |
Washington | 1629 K St NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 United States |
(202) 851-2383 | Washington Network Support Services |