Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast remote assistance with data security issues, businesses in Allentown Pennsylvania have access to world-class troubleshooting from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote support consultants are available to provide efficient and low-cost assistance with security emergencies that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to support environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of consulting services encompasses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure system architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's top security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides online security help on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and no extra fees for sign-up or after hours service. By charging per minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs low and avoids scenarios where simple solutions entail major expenses.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do?
In case your business is now experiencing a network security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Online Computer Support to learn how to get immediate assistance. Progent maintains a team of veteran network security experts who can provide remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For businesses that have prepared in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step incident handling model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of responding to a major security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating computer security as well as staying ready for restoring vital data and systems following a security breach requires a continual process involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's security consultants can assist your business at whatever level in your efforts to safeguard your information network, from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Important technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Borne Threats.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Every company ought to develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and reactive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a set of precautions that works to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to help security staff to evaluate the losses resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and revive network functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your business processes. Progent can configure auditing software, create and execute a safe computer infrastructure, and propose processes and policies to enhance the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy secure remote connectivity to email and information, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an affordable way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages feature continual remote network monitoring and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have stopped working following a security breach. Progent can help evaluate the losses caused by the assault, return your company to normal functions, and retrieve data lost as a result of the breach. Progent's security specialists can also manage a thorough failure evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing other advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to recommend effective strategies to avoid or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of all sizes a versatile and affordable solution for assessing, validating, scheduling, applying, and documenting software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT system. Besides optimizing the security and functionality of your IT network, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your IT staff to focus on line-of-business initiatives and tasks that derive maximum business value from your network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. 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 solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including protection, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific needs and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent can also assist your company to install and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid restoration of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the technology of leading data security companies to deliver centralized control and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save up to half of time spent searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require the instant you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified consultants offer world-class support in key areas of network security including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with security auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive network scans to uncover potential security problems. Progent has extensive experience with testing utilities and can help your company to understand audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web software testing and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important worldwide security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Learn more information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical services for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst switches. Read more details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
In addition to supporting a wide array of protection solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size advanced engineering services for solutions from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic skills and international standards of service that IT security managers are required to achieve. It provides executive management the confidence that consultants who have earned their certification have the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security administration and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to assist your enterprise in critical security areas including information security governance, risk assessment, information security program management, and incident response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have earned CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in a worldwide 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. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and test systems, connection permission systems, applications development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts have been awarded ISSAP accreditation after rigorous examination and substantial hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth understanding of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The CISA credential is a recognized achievement that signifies expertise in network security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that candidates pass an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security audit professional able to help businesses in the areas of IS audit process, information technology administration, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding data assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC Risk Management Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management services are complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially auditing your IT management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified professional possesses the knowledge appropriate to deliver services in key areas of network, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the support of certified security engineers for all of the security disciplines addressed under GIAC accreditation programs including auditing networks, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your organization is located in Allentown Pennsylvania and you need cybersecurity expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware.