Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate online help with network security problems, companies in Arlington Texas have access to expert troubleshooting from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support staff is ready to provide efficient and affordable assistance with security problems that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to support systems based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services encompasses firewall configuration, email security, secure system design, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has earned the world's top security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides online security support services on a per-minute basis without minimum call duration and without additional fees for sign-up or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's billing model keeps costs low and avoids situations where quick solutions result in major bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do?
If you are currently fighting a network security crisis, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Help to learn how to receive immediate aid. Progent maintains a team of certified network security specialists who can provide remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For businesses who have planned beforehand for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of handling a serious security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating network protection as well as planning for restoring vital information and functions following an attack demands an on-going effort that entails a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security engineers can support your organization at all levels in your efforts to protect your information network, ranging from security audits to designing a complete security strategy. Important areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Any company should develop a carefully thought out security strategy that includes both preventive and reactive elements. The proactive strategy is a collection of precautions that helps to reduce security gaps. The reactive strategy specifies procedures to assist security staff to inventory the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and restore network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to design security into your company processes. Progent can install auditing software, define and implement a safe network architecture, and propose processes and policies that will optimize the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design safe online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and data, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an economical option for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services feature continual remote server tracking and fast response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud hosted resources and that comply with government data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 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 integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has expertise in restoring networks and servers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have ceased to function following a security penetration. Progent can help evaluate the damage caused by the breach, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover information lost owing to the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a thorough failure analysis by examining event logs and using other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest effective measures to prevent or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

{Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Solutions
At-home employees typically use their personal computers and often operate in a unsecured physical area. This increases their susceptibility to malware attacks and calls for careful configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, thorough end-user education, and the creation of policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned team of at-home workforce support consultants can assist your business to design, implement and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that guards critical IT resources in networks that incorporate an at-home workforce.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of any size a versatile and affordable alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving information network. In addition to maximizing the protection and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your in-house IT staff to focus on more strategic projects and activities that derive the highest business value from your network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to address the entire threat progression including filtering, detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's unique needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
Progent has partnered with leading backup/restore technology companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services manage and monitor your data backup operations and allow transparent backup and fast restoration of vital files/folders, applications, images, and virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets you recover from data loss resulting from equipment failures, natural calamities, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, human mistakes, ill-intentioned employees, or application bugs. Managed backup services in the ProSight ProSight Data Protection selection include ProSight Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Backup, ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to identify which of these managed backup services are most appropriate for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security companies to provide web-based control and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays within your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo MFA managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a protected online account and enter your password you are asked to confirm your identity on a unit that only you have and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad range of devices can be used for this second form of authentication including a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may designate multiple validation devices. To learn more about Duo identity validation services, visit Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult reinstallation process. 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: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, find and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time wasted looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for storing and sharing 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 associating IT data. Whether you�re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require when you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants offer world-class expertise in vital areas of IT security including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of automatic system tests to reveal possible security holes. Progent has broad experience with scanning utilities and can help you to understand assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web software validation and can conduct expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key worldwide security specifications such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment plus mobile handsets. Find out more information about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's entire family of protection and VPN technologies including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Get additional information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and VPN Solutions
As well as being expert in a wide array of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size expert support for technologies from other major firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic competencies and international benchmarks of performance that information technology security managers are required to achieve. It provides business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their accreditation possess the background and knowledge to offer efficient security administration and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to help your organization in vital security areas including data security governance, vulnerability assessment, data protection program control, and crisis handling support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP status as a result of verified experience, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and models, connection permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation after rigorous examination and extensive experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your company with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 cybersecurity consultant to assist your organization to utilize modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is an important achievement that signifies mastery in information system security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security engineer trained to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, IT administration, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology support, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to design, implement, and maintain IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and carry out a business continuity plan based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially assessing your IS control design and also with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for designing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that an accredited professional has the knowledge necessary to provide support in key categories of system, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified consultants for all of the security services addressed under GIAC accreditation programs such as auditing security systems, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your company is located in Arlington Texas and you need computer security engineering help, call 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.