Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get fast online assistance with network security problems, companies in Alexandria Virginia can find expert troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service staff is available to provide effective and low-cost help with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for systems based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of services addresses firewall expertise, email security, protected system design, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's top security credentials including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides remote security expertise on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum times and no extra charges for setup or off-hour support. By charging per minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where simple solutions result in big charges.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
If you are currently faced with a network security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to find out how to get immediate aid. Progent has a team of certified cybersecurity specialists who offer online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security posture to guard against future attacks.

For organizations that have prepared carefully for an attack, the formal post-attack response model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of handling a serious security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Managing network security as well as staying ready for recovering critical information and systems following a security breach demands a continual process that entails an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can support your business at whatever level in your attempt to guard your information system, from security assessments to creating a complete security plan. Important areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Threats.

Designing and Implementing Protected Networks
Every organization should develop a carefully thought out security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive elements. The proactive plan is a collection of precautions that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines procedures to assist IT personnel to inventory the losses resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, document the experience, and revive business functions as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your company operations. Progent can configure auditing software, define and implement a secure network architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will optimize the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design secure online and mobile access to e-mail and information, and configure an effective VPN.

If you are looking for an economical way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages feature automated remote system tracking and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has expertise in recovering systems and devices that have been hacked, are suspect, or have ceased to function as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage resulting from the assault, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve information lost as a result of the attack. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a thorough failure evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing other proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to propose efficient strategies to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting software and firmware updates to your dynamic information system. Besides optimizing the security and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your IT team to concentrate on more strategic initiatives and tasks that derive maximum business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's patch management services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to address the entire malware attack lifecycle including protection, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's unique needs and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and allows fast restoration of critical files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of leading data security companies to provide centralized management and world-class protection for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. 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 inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single 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 allows you to create, update, find and protect data about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time spent trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized 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 gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need the instant you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's veteran engineers offer world-class specialized help in key facets of computer protection including:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive system tests to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with scanning utilities and can help you to understand audit results and respond appropriately. Progent's security engineers also can perform web software testing and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important global security standards such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances plus mobile devices. Get more details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class consulting services for Cisco's complete family of security and VPN solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Get additional details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a broad array of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes expert consulting for products from other important firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the fundamental competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that information technology security managers are expected to master. It offers business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their certification possess the background and knowledge to offer effective security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to help your enterprise in critical security disciplines including information protection governance, vulnerability management, data protection process control, and crisis handling 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 accreditation as a result of demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and models, connection control methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Learn the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation following thorough examination and substantial hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise associated with 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 network security consultant to help your organization to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Services
The CISA credential is a prestigious qualification that indicates expertise in network security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security consultant able to help companies in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology governance, systems and architecture lifecycle, IT support, protecting data resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively auditing your IS control design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of network security experts. GIAC's goal is to ensure that an accredited professional has the knowledge necessary to deliver support in vital areas of system, data, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the network security capabilities addressed under GIAC accreditation topics including auditing IT infrastructure, security incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Alexandria Virginia and you're trying to find cybersecurity help, phone 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.