Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate online help with data security issues, companies in Appleton Wisconsin can find expert support from Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to offer fast and affordable help with security crises that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services encompasses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, secure network infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has earned the industry's most advanced security accreditations including CISM and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides remote security support on a by-the-minute basis without minimum minutes and no additional charges for setup or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where quick fixes entail major charges.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do?
In case your network is now fighting a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Help to learn how to receive fast help. Progent has a team of certified network security experts who can provide online and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations who have prepared in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack handling model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating network protection and preparation for recovering vital information and functions after a security breach requires an on-going program that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified professionals can support your organization at all levels in your efforts to secure your IT network, ranging from security audits to creating a complete security plan. Important technologies covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Threats.

Designing and Building Protected Environments
Any business should develop a carefully thought out security strategy that includes both proactive and responsive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to help IT staff to assess the losses resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and revive business functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can set up auditing software, create and execute a safe IT infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies that will maximize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design secure online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an effective virtual private network.

If you are looking for an affordable way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services feature automated online server tracking and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud hosted resources and that are compliant with government data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and servers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have stopped working as a result of a security attack. Progent can show you how to assess the damage resulting from the attack, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve information lost as a result of the breach. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a comprehensive forensic analysis by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of proven assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to recommend efficient ways to prevent or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Cybersecurity Expertise
At-home staff members commonly use their own computing devices and often operate in a poorly secured physical space. This increases their susceptibility to malware threats and calls for judicious deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the development of security policies built on best practices. Progent's veteran team of Work-from-home support experts can assist you to design, configure and maintain a compliant cybersecurity solution that guards vital IT resources in networks that incorporate remote workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management offer businesses of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective solution for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic information system. Besides maximizing the security and functionality of your IT network, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT staff to concentrate on more strategic initiatives and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of network management outsourcing 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. ProSight managed services offered by 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 incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape legacy signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to manage the complete malware attack progression including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with leading backup/restore technology vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a selection of subscription-based offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services manage and track your data backup operations and enable non-disruptive backup and fast recovery of vital files, apps, system images, plus virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you protect against data loss resulting from hardware failures, natural calamities, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, user error, malicious insiders, or software glitches. Managed services in the ProSight DPS selection include ProSight DPS Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Backup, ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent service representative can assist you to determine which of these managed services are best suited for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top data security companies to provide web-based control and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo authentication service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a protected application and enter your password you are asked to confirm your identity via a unit that only you have and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad selection of devices can be used for this second form of ID validation including a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can register multiple validation devices. For details about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting environment without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, find and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains and warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time spent trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you�re making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified consultants can provide unique support in vital facets of IT protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security auditing utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive system scans to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these tools and can assist you to analyze assessment results and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also offer web software testing and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major industry security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless equipment as well as portable devices. Find out the details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Get additional information concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and VPN Technologies
As well as supporting a broad array of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes expert consulting for products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the core competencies and worldwide standards of performance that information security managers are expected to master. CISM provides executive management the confidence that those who have been awarded their certification possess the experience and skill to provide effective security management and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to help your organization in vital security areas such as information protection governance, vulnerability assessment, data protection program management, and incident handling support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP status through verified professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered within CISSP include security management practices, security design and models, connection control systems, applications development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Read the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification following rigorous examination and extensive experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive understanding of access control systems and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected Network Architecture Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security features for all critical system functions, define effective design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The CISA credential is a recognized achievement that signifies expertise in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer able to help businesses in the areas of IS audit services, IT enforcement, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management services are a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively evaluating your IS management design and with the services of Progent's CISM support professionals for implementing security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of computer security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited professional has the skills needed to provide support in critical areas of system, data, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and institutions throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the support of GIAC certified consultants for any of the network security services covered within GIAC accreditation programs such as assessing perimeters, incident response, traffic analysis, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your business is situated in Appleton Wisconsin and you want network security engineering help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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