Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate online help with computer security problems, companies in Appleton Wisconsin can find world-class support by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are available to offer fast and economical help with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to support environments based on Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services addresses firewall technology, email security, protected system architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security certifications including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent offers remote security expertise on a per-minute basis with no minimum call duration and without additional charges for setup or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's pricing model keeps costs low and eliminates situations where simple solutions result in major charges.

We've Been Attacked: What Should We Do Now?
If you are currently fighting a security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Online Computer Support to learn how to receive fast assistance. Progent maintains a team of seasoned network security specialists who offer online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to guard against future attacks.

For businesses who have planned in advance for an attack, the formal post-attack response model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security penetration.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Managing data protection plus preparedness for restoring vital information and functions following an attack requires a continual process that entails a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's security engineers can support your organization at whatever level in your attempt to secure your information system, ranging from security assessments to creating a complete security strategy. Key areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Protected Networks
Every business should develop a carefully considered security plan that includes both proactive and responsive activity. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines activities to assist IT personnel to inventory the damage caused by an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and revive business activity as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can configure auditing software, create and implement a safe IT architecture, and propose processes and policies to optimize the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy safe offsite connectivity to e-mail and data, and install an effective VPN.

If your company is looking for an economical option for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages feature non-stop remote network monitoring and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in recovering systems and computers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function following a security attack. Progent can show you how to determine the losses resulting from the attack, return your company to ordinary business operations, and retrieve information lost owing to the assault. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a thorough forensic analysis by going over activity logs and using other proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to propose efficient strategies to prevent or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the services of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an IT network victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management provide businesses of all sizes a versatile and affordable alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and documenting software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving IT system. In addition to maximizing the protection and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services allow your IT team to concentrate on line-of-business initiatives and activities that derive the highest business value from your information network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of network monitoring and management 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): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete threat progression including blocking, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique needs and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables rapid recovery of vital data, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can help you to recover your critical information. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top information security companies to provide centralized management and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. 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 protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Learn more 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 makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time wasted trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need when you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's security engineers offer unique consulting support in key areas of network protection including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a set of automatic system tests to identify potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with scanning tools and can help you to understand audit results and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also offer web software validation and can perform thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key industry security specifications such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Read additional information concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class technical support for Cisco's entire family of protection and VPN solutions such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Read additional information concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to supporting a wide range of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes advanced consulting for products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

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

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the fundamental skills and international standards of performance that information security managers are expected to master. It provides executive management the assurance that those who have been awarded their certification have the background and knowledge to provide effective security administration and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to assist your organization in key security areas including data protection governance, risk assessment, data security process management, and crisis response management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP status through demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT 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 under CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and models, access permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Get more information concerning Progent's CISSP Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough testing and extensive experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.

Read additional information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure System Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide large organizations with the services associated with 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 network security consultant to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all critical system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

Learn more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The CISA accreditation is an important qualification that indicates mastery in information system security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer able to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, systems and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, protecting data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation services are a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively assessing your IT management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for implementing security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills necessary to deliver services in critical areas of network, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified professionals for any of the network security services addressed under GIAC certification topics such as auditing IT infrastructure, security incident response, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your company is situated in Appleton Wisconsin and you want cybersecurity support services, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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