Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate online help with network security problems, businesses in Appleton Wisconsin have access to expert expertise from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online support staff is available to offer efficient and affordable help with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to provide help for systems based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad array of services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure system infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's top security credentials including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides remote security support on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum call duration and no additional fees for setup or after hours service. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses low and avoids scenarios where simple solutions turn into big expenses.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do?
If your network is now faced with a security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Support to see how to receive fast assistance. Progent maintains a team of seasoned cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future exploits.

For organizations who have planned carefully for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack response model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Managing network security plus preparedness for restoring vital data and functions after a security breach requires an on-going effort that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's security engineers can help your organization at whatever level in your attempt to protect your IT system, ranging from security audits to designing a complete security plan. Important areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Secure Networks
Any organization should have a carefully thought out security plan that includes both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack plan is a set of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The post-attack plan defines procedures to assist security staff to evaluate the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning utilities, create and execute a secure computer architecture, and propose processes and policies that will optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected online and mobile connectivity to email and information, and install an efficient VPN.

If you are looking for an affordable way for jobbing out your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options feature non-stop online system tracking and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud resources and that comply with government and industry data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring systems and servers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working because of a security breach. Progent can show you how to determine the damage caused by the attack, restore normal business operations, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the event. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a comprehensive forensic analysis by going over activity logs and using other advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to propose efficient strategies to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to rebuild an environment damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of outsourced network 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): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior analysis tools to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire malware attack progression including protection, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will help you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to install and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of critical files, apps and VMs that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

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 information security companies to deliver centralized control and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and difficult reinstallation 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
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, find and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to 50% of time wasted searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require as soon as you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security consultants can provide world-class consulting support in vital facets of IT security such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a set of automatic system tests to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with these and similar utilities and can help you to analyze assessment results and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web application testing and can perform expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key industry security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering in-place wireless appliances as well as mobile handsets. Get additional information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class consulting support for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn the details about Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as supporting a broad array of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes top-level engineering services for solutions from other popular firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

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

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager defines the core skills and international standards of service that information technology security managers are expected to master. CISM offers executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their certification possess the background and knowledge to provide efficient security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to help your enterprise in critical security areas such as information protection governance, vulnerability assessment, information protection process control, and crisis handling management.

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

CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification through verified experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security design and models, access permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn more details concerning Progent's CISSP Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have been awarded ISSAP certification as a result of thorough examination and substantial hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Read the details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure Network Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity 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 can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions 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 Consulting Services
The CISA credential is a prestigious qualification that represents mastery in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer able to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit services, IT enforcement, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT support, safeguarding information resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to design, implement, and support IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to create and execute a business continuity plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively evaluating your IT control mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing company-wide security policies.

Find out more information about Progent's CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Consulting.

GIAC Support Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to verify that a certified security consultant has the knowledge needed to provide support in vital areas of network, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the expertise of certified professionals for any of the network security services covered under GIAC certification programs such as assessing networks, security incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your organization is situated in Appleton Wisconsin and you want computer security help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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