Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate online help with network security problems, companies in Alexandria Virginia can find world-class support from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service staff is ready to offer efficient and low-cost assistance with security issues that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad array of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure network design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has earned the industry's most advanced security accreditations including GIAC and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers remote security support on a by-the-minute model with no minimum call duration and without extra fees for sign-up or after hours support. By billing per minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses under control and avoids scenarios where quick solutions entail major charges.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
If your network is currently faced with a security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Help to find out how to get fast aid. Progent has a pool of seasoned cybersecurity experts who can provide online and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future attacks.

For companies that have prepared beforehand for an attack, the formal incident handling procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of responding to a serious security penetration.

Overview of Security Services
Managing network protection and staying ready for recovering critical data and systems after an attack demands an on-going effort that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's security professionals can help your business at all levels in your attempt to guard your information system, ranging from security audits to designing a comprehensive security plan. Some areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Every business ought to have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy specifies procedures to assist IT staff to assess the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your company processes. Progent can set up scanning software, create and build a safe IT infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will enhance the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to help you to set up a firewall, deploy secure remote connectivity to email and data, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an economical option for jobbing out your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services feature continual remote network monitoring and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud resources and that are compliant with government and industry data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises installations of 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 systems and servers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have ceased to function following a security attack. Progent can help evaluate the damage resulting from the assault, restore ordinary functions, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the event. Progent's security engineers can also manage a comprehensive failure analysis by going over activity logs and using a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to propose effective strategies to avoid or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild an IT network compromised by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates next generation behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape traditional signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific needs and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and allows rapid restoration of vital files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged due to hardware failures, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS 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 a local device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of leading information security companies to provide web-based control and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more details, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and protect information 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 SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time spent searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers can provide world-class consulting support in key areas of computer protection such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with information risk evaluation tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of automatic network tests to identify potential security problems. Progent has extensive experience with these utilities and can assist you to understand audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web application testing and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major industry security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Find out additional information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class technical services for Cisco's entire range of protection and VPN products including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Read the details concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to being expert in a wide array of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size expert engineering services for solutions from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Consulting
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
CISM identifies the fundamental skills and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information security professionals are required to master. It provides executive management the assurance that those who have earned their accreditation possess the experience and skill to provide effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to help your organization in key security areas such as information protection governance, risk assessment, information security process control, and incident response support.

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CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP certification through verified experience, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security design and models, access permission systems, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have earned ISSAP status as a result of thorough examination and extensive hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your business with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations with the services expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important achievement that represents expertise in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, protecting data assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC IT Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to plan, implement, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially assessing your IS management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM support professionals for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of computer security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that an accredited security consultant has the skills appropriate to provide support in critical categories of system, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations all over the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the assistance of GIAC certified consultants for any of the security disciplines covered within GIAC certification programs such as assessing security systems, security incident response, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Help
If your organization is situated in Alexandria Virginia and you're trying to find cybersecurity expertise, 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.