Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote help with computer security issues, companies in Allen Texas have access to world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are available to offer fast and affordable assistance with security crises that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to support systems based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services addresses firewall technology, email security, protected network architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has earned the world's top security certifications including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides remote security support services on a per-minute model with no minimum minutes and without additional fees for setup or after hours service. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's billing structure keeps costs under control and avoids situations where simple fixes turn into major expenses.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do Now?
If your network is now faced with a security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Help to learn how to receive fast aid. Progent maintains a team of certified network security experts who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future attacks.

For businesses that have prepared beforehand for an attack, the formal post-attack handling model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of handling a major security incident.

Overview of Security Expertise
Coordinating network security plus preparedness for restoring vital data and functions after a security breach requires a continual process involving a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified security consultants can help your business at all levels in your attempt to safeguard your IT system, from security assessments to designing a comprehensive security plan. Some areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Secure Networks
Any company should have a carefully considered security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive activity. The proactive plan is a set of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies activities to help security personnel to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the event, and restore network activity as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your business operations. Progent can configure scanning software, define and build a secure IT architecture, and propose processes and policies to enhance the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy protected offsite access to email and information, and install an efficient VPN.

If your company is interested in an affordable option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages include continual online server monitoring and immediate response to emergencies.

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

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in restoring systems and computers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have ceased to function as a result of a security breach. Progent can help evaluate the damage caused by the breach, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve information compromised owing to the assault. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a comprehensive forensic analysis by examining event logs and using other advanced assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to suggest efficient measures to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an information system that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware removal and recovery services.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to steal its way across a target network. Because of this, ransomware assaults are typically launched on weekends and at night, when IT staff are likely to take longer to become aware of a breach and are least able to mount a quick and forceful defense. The more lateral progress ransomware is able to manage inside a victim's system, the longer it will require to restore core IT services and damaged files and the more data can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to guide organizations to complete the urgent first phase in responding to a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's online ransomware experts can help you to identify and isolate breached devices and guard undamaged resources from being compromised. If your system has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Cybersecurity Solutions
Work-from-Home workers typically use their personal computing devices and often work in a unsecured physical area. This situation increases their vulnerability to cyber attacks and calls for judicious deployment of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the creation of security policies built on best practices. Progent's veteran team of telecommuter solutions experts can help your business to plan, deploy and manage a compliant cybersecurity solution that protects vital information assets in environments that include remote workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of any size a flexible and cost-effective solution for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your dynamic IT network. In addition to maximizing the security and functionality of your computer environment, Progent's patch management services free up time for your IT team to concentrate on line-of-business initiatives and activities that derive maximum business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also help you to install and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
Progent has partnered with leading backup/restore product vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a portfolio of management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services manage and monitor your backup processes and allow non-disruptive backup and fast recovery of important files, applications, system images, plus VMs. ProSight DPS lets your business avoid data loss resulting from hardware breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, human mistakes, malicious employees, or software glitches. Managed services in the ProSight DPS family include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to identify which of these managed backup services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: 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 top data security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class security for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, visit 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 technology to defend against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected online account and enter your password you are asked to confirm your identity on a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad selection of devices can be used for this added means of ID validation such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate several verification devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo identity validation services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time thrown away searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you're making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer world-class consulting support in vital areas of network security such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive network tests to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with scanning tools and can help you to analyze audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web application testing and can conduct expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important industry security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless appliances as well as mobile handsets. Find out more information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth consulting support for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Read the details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and VPN Solutions
As well as being expert in a broad array of protection solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size top-level support for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Help

CISM Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the fundamental skills and international standards of service that computer security managers are expected to achieve. CISM provides business management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their certification have the experience and skill to offer effective security management and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM expert to assist your organization in critical security areas such as data protection governance, risk management, information protection program management, and crisis handling management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include security administration practices, security design and models, connection control methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants have earned ISSAP accreditation following rigorous examination and extensive hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth knowledge of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise associated with 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 network security consultant to assist your organization to utilize modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The CISA credential is an important achievement that indicates expertise in IS security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo a comprehensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional trained to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, information technology administration, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, protecting information assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to design, implement, and support information system controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially evaluating your IT control design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for defining company-wide security policies.

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GIAC Professional Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills necessary to deliver services in important areas of system, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the assistance of certified consultants for all of the security disciplines addressed within GIAC accreditation programs including assessing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Support
If your business is located in Allen Texas and you need network security consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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