Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast online help with data security issues, companies in Allen Texas have access to world-class expertise by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are available to provide fast and economical help with security problems that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to provide help for systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of consulting services covers firewall technology, email security, secure system infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support team has earned the industry's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers remote security assistance on a by-the-minute model without minimum call duration and without extra fees for setup or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses low and avoids scenarios where simple solutions entail major bills.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Should We Do?
If your business is currently fighting a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to learn how to receive fast assistance. Progent maintains a team of certified cybersecurity experts who can provide remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future attacks.

For organizations who have planned in advance for an attack, the formal incident response model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of handling a major security incident.

Introduction to Security Services
Coordinating computer protection plus preparedness for restoring vital data and systems following an attack demands a continual program that entails an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security consultants can help your business at whatever level in your efforts to secure your information network, from security assessments to creating a complete security program. Some areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Threats.

Designing and Building Secure Networks
Every business ought to have a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and responsive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a set of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan specifies activities to assist security personnel to assess the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and revive network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to build protection into your business processes. Progent can install auditing software, create and implement a safe computer architecture, and propose procedures and policies to maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected online and mobile connectivity to email and information, and install an efficient VPN.

If your company is interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages include non-stop remote system monitoring and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with government security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in recovering systems and servers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have failed because of a security breakdown. Progent can help evaluate the losses caused by the attack, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover data lost as a result of the breach. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a comprehensive forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and using other advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to recommend efficient measures to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild an IT network victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

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

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the complete threat progression including filtering, detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive 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 alarms, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security standards. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and allows rapid restoration of vital files, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted due to hardware breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malware 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 backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide world-class support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound 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 top information security companies to provide web-based management and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV 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 stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time wasted looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants offer unique consulting support in key facets of network protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of comprehensive network scans to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with scanning tools and can assist your company to analyze assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also offer web software validation and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major global security specifications such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Get additional details concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Learn the details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as supporting a wide range of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes expert engineering services for products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
CISM identifies the fundamental skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that IT security managers are expected to master. CISM offers executive management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their CISM possess the background and knowledge to provide efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to help your organization in vital security areas such as data protection governance, risk management, information security program management, and incident handling support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include security management practices, security design and models, connection control methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP status as a result of rigorous testing and significant hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security 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 cybersecurity consultant to assist your organization to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic security solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important achievement that represents expertise in information system security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an extensive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security professional trained to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, information technology administration, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT support, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and support information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively auditing your IS control mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified professional has the knowledge necessary to deliver support in critical categories of network, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified consultants for all of the network security services covered within GIAC accreditation programs including assessing networks, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Support
If your organization is located in Allen Texas and you're looking for cybersecurity support services, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Dallas Metro Area.