Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate remote help with computer security issues, companies in Allentown Pennsylvania can find expert support from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support staff is ready to offer fast and economical assistance with security crises that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to support systems powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of consulting services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure system design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including Global Information Assurance Certification and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides online security support on a by-the-minute model with no minimum minutes and without additional charges for sign-up or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses under control and eliminates situations where quick fixes entail major charges.

We've Been Hacked: What Do We Do?
If your business is currently experiencing a security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Online Technical Support to learn how to get immediate aid. Progent maintains a team of veteran cybersecurity specialists who offer online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security posture to guard against future attacks.

For organizations who have prepared carefully for being hacked, the formal incident handling procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of responding to a major security penetration.

Introduction to Security Services
Coordinating network protection and planning for recovering vital information and functions after a security breach demands an on-going program that entails an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified experts can assist your organization at any level in your efforts to safeguard your information system, from security audits to designing a comprehensive security plan. Important technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Any company should have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive steps. The pre-attack plan is a set of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies activities to help security personnel to assess the losses caused by an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and revive network functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to build security into your company processes. Progent can configure auditing software, create and execute a secure computer architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to maximize the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to configure a firewall, design secure offsite connectivity to email and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an affordable way for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages feature non-stop online server monitoring and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government 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 integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in recovering systems and servers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can help evaluate the damage caused by the assault, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover information compromised as a result of the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also oversee a comprehensive forensic analysis by going over event logs and using a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's background with security issues reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to propose effective measures to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct a network compromised by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management provide businesses of any size a flexible and cost-effective solution for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving information network. In addition to optimizing the security and functionality of your computer network, Progent's patch management services permit your IT staff to focus on line-of-business projects and tasks that derive the highest business value from your information network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight line of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by legacy signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to manage the entire threat lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan 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 data security standards. Progent will help you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent can also assist your company to install and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of vital data, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft 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 provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can help you to restore your critical information. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

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 leading data security companies to deliver web-based management and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

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 applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware environment without a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Learn 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 makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time spent searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require when you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants offer world-class specialized help in key areas of network protection such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a set of comprehensive network tests to reveal possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with testing tools and can help your company to analyze audit results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web software testing and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major global security specifications including FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Get more information concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class consulting support for Cisco's entire family of security and VPN solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst switches. Find out additional information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and VPN Solutions
In addition to being expert in a broad array of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of any size expert support for technologies from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the fundamental skills and international standards of performance that IT security professionals are expected to achieve. CISM offers business management the confidence that those who have earned their accreditation have the background and skill to provide efficient security administration and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to help your enterprise in vital security areas including information protection governance, risk management, data protection process management, and crisis response management.

Read the details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included within CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and test systems, connection permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Read additional information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP status after thorough testing and substantial hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP consultants have in-depth knowledge of access management systems and techniques, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Learn additional details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected System Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity 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 can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that indicates expertise in network security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants pass an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant trained to help companies in the fields of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, systems and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and support IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and execute a workplace continuity plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively evaluating your IT management design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for designing security policies and procedures.

Get more information about Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Expertise.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the skill of network security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that an accredited professional possesses the skills appropriate to provide support in vital areas of system, information, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions around the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the support of certified professionals for any of the network security disciplines addressed under GIAC accreditation programs including auditing IT infrastructure, security incident response, traffic analysis, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Help
If your company is situated in Allentown Pennsylvania and you're looking for network security consulting, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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