Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast online help with data security problems, businesses in Allen Texas can find world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service staff is ready to offer fast and economical help with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's security consultants are premier to support environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services encompasses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure network design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's top security accreditations including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and ISSAP.

Progent provides remote security support services on a per-minute model with no minimum minutes and without extra charges for setup or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's billing model keeps expenses under control and avoids scenarios where simple solutions entail major charges.

We've Been Attacked: What Do We Do?
If you are currently experiencing a network security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Help to find out how to receive immediate assistance. Progent maintains a team of veteran cybersecurity experts who can provide online and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For organizations who have planned in advance for a security breech, the step-by-step incident response model outlined by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of responding to a major security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Managing network protection and preparation for recovering vital data and systems after a security breach requires an on-going effort involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's security engineers can support your business at whatever level in your efforts to protect your information system, from security evaluation to designing a complete security plan. Some technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Every organization should develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive steps. The proactive plan is a set of steps that helps to minimize security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to assist IT personnel to assess the losses caused by an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and restore network activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your business operations. Progent can configure auditing utilities, define and build a secure network architecture, and propose procedures and policies to enhance the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy safe remote access to email and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an economical way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages include automated remote server monitoring and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based resources and that comply with government and industry data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent offers skill in recovering systems and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have ceased to function because of a security penetration. Progent can help evaluate the losses resulting from the assault, restore normal functions, and recover information compromised as a result of the assault. Progent's security specialists can also manage a thorough forensic evaluation by examining activity logs and using other proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security issues reduces your downtime and permits Progent to recommend effective ways to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct an environment compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

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

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete malware attack lifecycle including filtering, detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and enables fast recovery of vital data, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged due to component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading data security vendors to provide web-based control and world-class security for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. 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 business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting solution without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, find and safeguard data about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time spent trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on 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 collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require as soon as you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants can provide world-class expertise in key facets of IT protection such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive system scans to identify possible security holes. Progent has broad experience with these tools and can assist your company to understand assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web application testing and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major worldwide security specifications including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Read the details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out more information concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
In addition to being expert in a broad array of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size advanced support for products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

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

CISM Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the basic skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that computer security managers are required to master. CISM provides business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM possess the experience and skill to provide effective security administration and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to assist your organization in key security disciplines including data security governance, vulnerability assessment, information security program control, and incident response support.

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CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security architecture and models, connection permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification following rigorous testing and substantial experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive understanding of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

Find out the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Services
The CISA credential is a recognized achievement that represents expertise in IS security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has candidates pass an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit professional able to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, information technology administration, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, protecting information resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively auditing your IT management design and with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Professional Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security engineers. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited professional has the skills appropriate to deliver support in critical areas of network, data, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the security disciplines covered under GIAC accreditation programs such as assessing IT infrastructure, incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Support
If your company is located in Allen Texas and you're looking for cybersecurity help, 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 Dallas Metro Area.