Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast remote help with computer security issues, companies in Appleton Wisconsin can find world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote support staff is ready to provide effective and affordable assistance with security crises that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to support environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure system architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's top security certifications including Global Information Assurance Certification and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent offers online security help on a per-minute model with no minimum call duration and no additional fees for setup or off-hour support. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses low and avoids situations where quick solutions result in major expenses.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
In case you are now faced with a network security emergency, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Network Help to find out how to receive fast help. Progent has a pool of certified cybersecurity experts who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations that have prepared beforehand for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack response model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a serious security attack.

Overview of Security Services
Coordinating computer protection as well as preparation for recovering vital information and functions following a security breach requires a continual process involving an array of tools and processes. Progent's security professionals can help your organization at any level in your efforts to safeguard your information network, ranging from security evaluation to designing a complete security plan. Key technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Secure Networks
Any organization ought to develop a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive elements. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines procedures to help IT personnel to assess the losses resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your company processes. Progent can install scanning utilities, define and implement a secure computer infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to enhance the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design safe online and mobile connectivity to email and data, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages include automated remote network monitoring and fast response to emergencies.

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

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in recovering systems and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working as a result of a security penetration. Progent can help assess the damage resulting from the breach, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the breach. Progent's security engineers can also manage a thorough forensic evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest efficient measures to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an IT network damaged by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight line of outsourced network management 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 available from 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 (EPP) service that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the entire threat progression including blocking, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's specific needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and enables fast restoration of vital data, applications and VMs that have become lost or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can help you to restore your critical data. 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 filtering service that uses the technology of leading data security companies to provide centralized control and world-class protection for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises 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 blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more details, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware environment without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, update, retrieve and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save as much as half of time spent searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified engineers offer unique support in vital facets of computer protection such as:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with information risk auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive network tests to reveal potential security holes. Progent has broad skills with these and similar tools and can assist your company to understand assessment results and react appropriately. Progent's security engineers also provide web software validation and can perform expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major worldwide security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless appliances plus mobile devices. Learn additional details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and 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 (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst switches. Find out the details concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to being expert in a wide array of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes top-level support for products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Technical Assistance

CISM Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic skills and international standards of service that IT security professionals are expected to achieve. CISM offers executive management the confidence that those who have been awarded their CISM have the experience and knowledge to offer efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to help your enterprise in key security disciplines such as information security governance, risk assessment, information protection program control, and crisis response management.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP status through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security design and models, connection permission methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP status as a result of rigorous examination and extensive hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive understanding of access control systems and methodologies, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Read more details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure Network Architecture 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 offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your organization to utilize modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs according to security engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a globally recognized achievement that indicates mastery in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has consultants pass a comprehensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit services, IT enforcement, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding data assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and support information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management expertise is a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially auditing your IT management design and with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing company-wide security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver services in key categories of system, information, and application security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified consultants for any of the network security capabilities addressed under GIAC accreditation topics including assessing security systems, incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your business is situated in Appleton Wisconsin and you need cybersecurity consulting, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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