Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate online help with computer security issues, businesses in Arlington Texas have access to world-class support by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote support consultants are ready to provide effective and low-cost help with security problems that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure system design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the world's top security credentials including Global Information Assurance Certification and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides online security support on a per-minute model with no minimum times and without extra charges for setup or after hours support. By charging per minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses under control and eliminates situations where quick fixes result in big charges.

We've Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your network is currently experiencing a network security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Help to learn how to get immediate aid. Progent has a team of veteran network security specialists who can provide online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations that have prepared beforehand for being hacked, the step-by-step incident response procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of handling a serious security incident.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Coordinating network protection plus planning for recovering critical data and functions following an attack demands a continual process involving a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified security consultants can support your organization at all levels in your attempt to safeguard your information system, ranging from security audits to designing a complete security strategy. Key technologies supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Any business should have a thoroughly considered security plan that includes both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that works to reduce security gaps. The reactive strategy defines activities to assist security staff to evaluate the losses resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, document the experience, and restore network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to build protection into your business operations. Progent can set up scanning utilities, define and execute a safe computer architecture, and propose processes and policies that will optimize the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to set up a firewall, deploy protected remote access to email and information, and configure an efficient VPN.

If you are interested in an economical option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services include non-stop remote server monitoring and fast response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in restoring systems and devices that have been compromised, are suspect, or have stopped working following a security penetration. Progent can help assess the losses caused by the attack, restore normal business operations, and recover data compromised owing to the attack. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a comprehensive forensic analysis by going over event logs and utilizing other proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security issues reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to propose efficient measures to prevent or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Solutions
At-home employees typically utilize their personal devices and usually work in a unsecured physical environment. This increases their vulnerability to malware attacks and requires careful configuration of corporate firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, intensive user training, and the creation of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran team of telecommuter solutions experts can assist you to plan, configure and maintain an effective security solution that protects critical information assets in networks that include an at-home workforce.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of any size a flexible and affordable solution for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting software and firmware updates to your dynamic information network. In addition to maximizing the protection and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services allow your in-house IT team to focus on more strategic projects and tasks that derive the highest business value from your network. Read more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to manage the entire threat lifecycle including blocking, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
Progent has worked with advanced backup product vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of subscription-based offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS products manage and monitor your data backup processes and enable non-disruptive backup and fast restoration of vital files/folders, applications, system images, and VMs. ProSight DPS helps your business avoid data loss caused by hardware breakdown, natural calamities, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, user error, malicious insiders, or application bugs. Managed services in the ProSight Data Protection selection include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to determine which of these managed services are best suited for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading data security companies to provide centralized control and world-class protection for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, when you log into a protected online account and give your password you are asked to verify who you are via a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a different network channel. A wide selection of devices can be utilized as this second form of ID validation such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register several validation devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware environment without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, find and protect data about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you're making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require when you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers offer unique specialized help in key areas of computer protection such as:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with security auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a set of comprehensive system scans to uncover potential security problems. Progent has broad skills with these and similar utilities and can help you to understand audit reports and react appropriately. Progent's security engineers also provide web application testing and can perform thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key worldwide security specifications such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment as well as portable devices. Get additional information about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth consulting services for Cisco's complete range of protection and VPN solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Read additional details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and VPN Solutions
In addition to being expert in a broad array of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes expert engineering services for technologies from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Consulting
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Corp Help

CISM Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager defines the core competencies and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information security professionals are required to achieve. CISM provides executive management the confidence that consultants who have earned their accreditation have the background and skill to provide effective security administration and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to help your organization in critical security disciplines including information protection governance, vulnerability management, information security program management, and crisis response support.

Find out more details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated experience, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and models, access control methodology, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Learn the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP status as a result of thorough examination and substantial hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Learn more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure Network Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises 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 organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that signifies mastery in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an extensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant trained to assist companies in the areas of IS audit process, information technology governance, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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

CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively auditing your IS management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for implementing security policies.

Learn more details concerning Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Expertise.

GIAC Professional Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited professional has the skills needed to provide services in important areas of system, data, and program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the expertise of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the network security disciplines covered within GIAC certification programs including assessing networks, incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Support
If your organization is situated in Arlington Texas and you want computer security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Dallas Metro Area.