Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote assistance with data security problems, businesses in Arlington Texas have access to expert support from Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is ready to provide fast and economical help with security issues that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited security engineers are certified to provide help for environments based on Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email security, secure network design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the industry's top security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and CISSP.

Progent provides online security expertise on a per-minute model with no minimum call duration and without extra fees for setup or off-hour support. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and avoids scenarios where simple fixes result in major expenses.

We've Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
In case your network is now fighting a network security crisis, visit Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to find out how to get fast help. Progent has a pool of seasoned cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security posture to protect against future exploits.

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

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating computer protection and preparedness for recovering vital information and functions after an attack requires an on-going effort that entails an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified professionals can help your organization at any level in your efforts to guard your IT network, ranging from security evaluation to creating a complete security plan. Some technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from Email-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Protected Environments
Any company ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both proactive and responsive steps. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that helps to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan defines procedures to assist security personnel to evaluate the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to build protection into your company processes. Progent can configure auditing utilities, define and implement a secure computer infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy safe online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an affordable way for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options feature non-stop remote network monitoring and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with regulatory security standards. (Find out 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 integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in restoring systems and computers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have failed as a result of a security penetration. Progent can help determine the losses resulting from the breach, restore ordinary functions, and retrieve data lost owing to the event. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining event logs and using other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to recommend effective strategies to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to rebuild an IT network damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of all sizes a versatile and affordable solution for assessing, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking updates to your dynamic information network. Besides maximizing the security and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your in-house IT staff to concentrate on line-of-business projects and activities that deliver maximum business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's patch management services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the entire malware attack progression including protection, detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and enables fast restoration of vital data, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, natural 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 Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can assist you to recover your critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top information security vendors to provide web-based control and world-class protection for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, find and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to 50% of time spent searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need when you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants can provide world-class expertise in key facets of network protection such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive network tests to reveal potential security holes. Progent has broad skills with these tools and can assist your company to analyze assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web application validation and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major industry security standards such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless appliances plus mobile devices. Read additional details concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class consulting support for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Find out additional information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
As well as supporting a wide array of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes top-level consulting for security products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the basic competencies and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information security professionals are required to master. It offers executive management the assurance that those who have been awarded their CISM possess the background and knowledge to offer efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM expert to help your organization in critical security areas such as data protection governance, risk assessment, information security program management, and incident handling management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP status as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and models, access permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants have been awarded ISSAP certification as a result of rigorous examination and substantial experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Learn more information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected IT Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

Find out the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that indicates expertise in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has consultants undergo an extensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit professional able to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, IT enforcement, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a business continuity plan based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management expertise is a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially evaluating your IS control design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for designing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC Professional Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of network security engineers. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified professional has the skills appropriate to provide support in key areas of network, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations around the world including U.S. NSA. Progent offers the assistance of GIAC certified consultants for all of the network security capabilities covered within GIAC accreditation programs including assessing perimeters, incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Support
If your business is located in Arlington Texas and you want computer security help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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