Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote assistance with data security issues, companies in Appleton Wisconsin can find world-class support from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote support staff is ready to offer effective and affordable help with security issues that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's security engineers are certified to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's top security accreditations including CISA and CISSP.

Progent provides remote security assistance on a per-minute model without minimum minutes and no extra fees for setup or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes result in big charges.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do Now?
In case your network is currently fighting a security crisis, visit Progent's Urgent Online Technical Help to find out how to get fast help. Progent has a pool of seasoned network security experts who can provide online and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies that have planned beforehand for being hacked, the formal incident handling procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating data protection plus preparedness for restoring critical information and systems after an attack demands a continual process involving an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified professionals can assist your organization at all levels in your efforts to safeguard your IT network, ranging from security audits to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Important areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Any business ought to develop a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and responsive elements. The proactive plan is a collection of precautions that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to help IT personnel to inventory the losses caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to build security into your company processes. Progent can set up auditing utilities, define and execute a secure computer architecture, and propose processes and policies that will maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected offsite access to email and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If you are looking for an economical way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services include continual online network monitoring and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government and industry security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has expertise in recovering systems and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have failed as a result of a security breach. Progent can help determine the damage caused by the assault, return your company to normal business operations, and recover data compromised owing to the attack. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a comprehensive forensic evaluation by examining event logs and using other advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest efficient strategies to prevent or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct an information system damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior analysis technology to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire malware attack lifecycle including blocking, detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device management, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent can also assist you to set up and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and allows rapid restoration of critical data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can provide world-class expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your business-critical data. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

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 leading data security companies to provide centralized control and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs 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 protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, retrieve and protect data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to 50% of time wasted searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer unique expertise in vital facets of computer protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with information risk auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive network tests to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with scanning tools and can assist you to understand assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web software validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major worldwide security standards including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Find out additional details about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical support for Cisco's entire range of protection and VPN solutions including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Get more information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and VPN Technologies
In addition to supporting a wide range of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes advanced consulting for security products from other major firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Expertise
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

CISM Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the core competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that IT security managers are required to achieve. CISM provides executive management the assurance that those who have earned their accreditation possess the experience and knowledge to provide effective security administration and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified expert to help your enterprise in key security areas such as data protection governance, vulnerability assessment, data protection process management, and crisis handling support.

Find out more information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise.

CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security architecture and models, access permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn additional information concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP status as a result of rigorous examination and substantial hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth knowledge of access control systems and methodologies, phone system and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

Read the details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a prestigious qualification that indicates expertise in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer able to help companies in the fields of information systems audit services, IT governance, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery planning.

Get more details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services.

CRISC Network Risk Management Consultants
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to create and execute a business continuity strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially auditing your IT control design and also with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing company-wide security policies.

Learn additional information about Progent's CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Services.

Global Information Assurance Certification Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the skill of network security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that an accredited professional has the knowledge necessary to deliver services in key categories of system, information, and application security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations all over the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the support of GIAC certified consultants for all of the network security services covered under GIAC accreditation programs including assessing security systems, security incident response, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Help
If your organization is situated in Appleton Wisconsin and you're looking for cybersecurity engineering help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the state of Wisconsin.