Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote help with data security problems, companies in Arlington Texas can find expert support by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support staff is available to offer effective and affordable assistance with security crises that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to support systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure system architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's top security credentials including CISA and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides remote security assistance on a by-the-minute model without minimum times and without extra charges for setup or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where quick fixes result in big bills.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
If your network is currently experiencing a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Technical Support to find out how to get immediate aid. Progent maintains a team of seasoned cybersecurity experts who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For businesses who have prepared carefully for a security breech, the step-by-step post-attack response model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of responding to a serious security attack.

Overview of Security Services
Managing data protection and preparation for restoring vital information and systems after a security breach requires a continual process that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security professionals can assist your business at whatever level in your attempt to protect your IT system, from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security program. Some areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Every company should have a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and responsive activity. The proactive strategy is a set of precautions that works to minimize security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies procedures to assist IT staff to inventory the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to design security into your company processes. Progent can set up auditing software, create and execute a secure computer infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy protected offsite access to e-mail and information, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an affordable way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services include non-stop online network tracking and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with government and industry security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in recovering networks and servers that have been compromised, are in question, or have ceased to function following a security attack. Progent can help evaluate the damage caused by the breach, restore normal functions, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the assault. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing other advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security problems reduces your downtime and allows Progent to recommend efficient strategies to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild an environment victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Work-from-Home Security Expertise
Work-from-Home (WFH) employees typically utilize their own computing devices and usually work in a unsecured physical space. This multiplies their vulnerability to malware attacks and calls for judicious deployment of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive end-user education, and the creation of security policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned team of Work-from-home solutions experts can assist your business to plan, configure and maintain an effective security solution that protects vital IT resources in networks that incorporate an at-home workforce.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of all sizes a versatile and cost-effective alternative for assessing, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking updates to your dynamic IT network. Besides maximizing the security and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your in-house IT staff to concentrate on more strategic projects and activities that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight family of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete malware attack lifecycle including filtering, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure security 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 help you to set up and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
Progent has worked with advanced backup/restore product companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of subscription-based management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services manage and track your data backup operations and enable non-disruptive backup and fast restoration of important files/folders, applications, images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you recover from data loss resulting from hardware failures, natural disasters, fire, malware like ransomware, user error, ill-intentioned employees, or application bugs. Managed services in the ProSight ProSight Data Protection portfolio include ProSight DPS Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Backup, ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can help you to determine which of these fully managed backup services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security vendors to provide centralized control and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo authentication service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, whenever you log into a protected online account and give your password you are asked to verify your identity via a unit that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A wide selection of devices can be used as this added means of authentication including an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may designate several verification devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo identity validation services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for teleworkers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hosting solution without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time thrown away looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure 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 enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need when you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer world-class support in vital areas of network protection such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with security auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a set of automatic network tests to uncover possible security holes. Progent has broad skills with these utilities and can assist you to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web application validation and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important worldwide security standards such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Get additional details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver in-depth consulting support for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Read additional information about Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
In addition to being expert in a broad range of protection solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size expert engineering services for products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic competencies and worldwide standards of performance that information technology security managers are required to achieve. CISM provides executive management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their accreditation possess the experience and skill to offer efficient security management and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to help your organization in vital security areas such as information security governance, vulnerability management, information protection process management, and incident response management.

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CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have earned CISSP status through demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and models, connection permission methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP certification as a result of thorough testing and extensive experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your company with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The CISA credential is a recognized achievement that indicates mastery in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has candidates pass an extensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security professional able to assist companies in the fields of IS audit process, information technology enforcement, network assets and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, protecting data resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to verify a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and support information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to develop and execute a workplace continuity strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively assessing your IT control design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security experts. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited professional has the knowledge necessary to deliver services in critical areas of network, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the network security disciplines addressed under GIAC accreditation programs including auditing perimeters, security incident response, traffic analysis, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your company is situated in Arlington Texas and you need cybersecurity expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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