Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate remote assistance with network security issues, businesses in Allen Texas can find world-class support by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are ready to provide efficient and low-cost help with security issues that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services addresses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, secure system architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support team has earned the world's top security accreditations including GIAC and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent offers remote security support services on a per-minute model without minimum minutes and no extra charges for setup or off-hour support. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where quick fixes result in major expenses.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Can We Do?
If your business is now faced with a network security emergency, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Help to learn how to get fast assistance. Progent has a pool of veteran cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security posture to guard against future attacks.

For companies that have planned carefully for an attack, the formal incident response model outlined by GIAC is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security penetration.

Overview of Security Support Services
Coordinating data security plus preparation for restoring vital data and functions after a security breach requires a continual process involving a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified consultants can help your organization at whatever level in your efforts to secure your IT system, ranging from security audits to creating a comprehensive security program. Key areas supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Every business should have a carefully thought out security plan that includes both preventive and responsive steps. The pre-attack plan is a collection of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan defines activities to help security staff to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and revive business activity as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can set up scanning utilities, create and build a safe network architecture, and propose processes and policies that will maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, deploy protected remote connectivity to email and data, and configure an efficient VPN.

If your company is looking for an affordable option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages include non-stop remote server tracking and fast response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that are compliant with government security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has expertise in restoring networks and devices that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have stopped working as a result of a security attack. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage caused by the attack, restore ordinary functions, and recover data lost owing to the assault. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a comprehensive failure analysis by examining activity logs and using other advanced assessment techniques. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to recommend efficient measures to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an IT network compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of any size a flexible and cost-effective solution for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking updates to your dynamic information network. Besides optimizing the security and reliability of your computer network, Progent's patch management services allow your IT staff to focus on line-of-business initiatives and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes next generation behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including blocking, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive security attack such as 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
Progent has worked with leading backup product companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services automate and monitor your backup operations and enable transparent backup and fast recovery of vital files/folders, apps, images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you recover from data loss caused by equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, human error, ill-intentioned employees, or software bugs. Managed services available in the ProSight ProSight Data Protection portfolio include ProSight DPS Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent service representative can help you to determine which of these managed backup services are best suited for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of top information security companies to deliver centralized control and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The powerful architecture 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-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, when you sign into a secured application and enter your password you are asked to verify your identity on a device that only you possess and that uses a different network channel. A wide range of devices can be used as this added means of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate multiple validation devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo identity validation services, visit 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 organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Learn 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, retrieve and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can save up to 50% of time spent trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran engineers offer unique specialized help in key facets of IT protection including:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive system scans to reveal possible security problems. Progent has extensive skills with testing tools and can help you to analyze assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web application testing and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major industry security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances as well as portable devices. Find out more details about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Learn additional details concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and VPN Solutions
In addition to supporting a broad array of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes expert consulting for security products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager defines the basic skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that information security professionals are expected to master. CISM provides business management the confidence that those who have been awarded their accreditation have the experience and skill to offer effective security management and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to assist your enterprise in key security disciplines such as information security governance, vulnerability management, data security process control, and incident response management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security architecture and test systems, access control methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification as a result of rigorous testing and significant hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your organization to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, define efficient design strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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CISA Security Auditor Support Services
The CISA accreditation is a prestigious qualification that signifies mastery in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that candidates pass an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer able to help companies in the fields of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology service delivery, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and carry out a business continuity plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management expertise is a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially assessing your IS management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Support Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited security consultant has the skills needed to provide services in important categories of network, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the assistance of certified security engineers for all of the security disciplines covered under GIAC certification programs such as assessing perimeters, incident response, traffic analysis, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your business is situated in Allen Texas and you want cybersecurity consulting, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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