Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote assistance with data security problems, businesses in Atlanta Georgia have access to world-class troubleshooting from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote service staff is available to provide effective and economical assistance with security crises that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's security engineers are certified to provide help for environments powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure network infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's top security credentials including Certified Information Security Manager and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides online security assistance on a per-minute basis without minimum times and no extra charges for sign-up or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where simple solutions turn into big bills.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your business is currently faced with a security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Help to see how to get immediate aid. Progent has a pool of certified cybersecurity specialists who offer online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies that have planned beforehand for an attack, the step-by-step incident response model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of responding to a serious security incident.

Overview of Security Services
Coordinating computer protection and planning for restoring vital data and functions following a security breach demands a continual process involving a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified security experts can help your business at all levels in your efforts to secure your IT system, from security audits to designing a complete security program. Some technologies covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Every organization ought to have a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive elements. The pre-attack plan is a collection of precautions that works to minimize security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to help IT personnel to evaluate the losses resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your company operations. Progent can install auditing utilities, define and execute a safe computer architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will enhance the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy protected remote access to email and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an economical option for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services feature non-stop remote system monitoring and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud resources and that comply with government and industry security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in recovering networks and servers that have been compromised, are in question, or have failed as a result of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to assess the losses caused by the assault, return your company to normal functions, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the assault. Progent's security specialists can also manage a thorough failure evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to suggest effective ways to prevent or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware removal and recovery services.

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

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates next generation behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including blocking, detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables fast restoration of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver advanced support to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your critical data. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound 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 leading data security companies to deliver centralized management and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, 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 business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting solution without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is 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 makes it easy to create, maintain, find and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save up to 50% of time thrown away searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information 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 seasoned consultants can provide unique support in key areas of computer security including:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic network scans to reveal potential security holes. Progent has extensive experience with these tools and can help your company to analyze audit reports and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web application validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key worldwide security specifications such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Get more information concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst switches. Read additional details concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and VPN Solutions
As well as being expert in a wide range of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes advanced support for products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Help
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the fundamental competencies and international benchmarks of performance that information technology security professionals are required to achieve. It offers business management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their certification possess the background and knowledge to provide effective security management and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM consultant to assist your enterprise in critical security areas such as data protection governance, vulnerability assessment, data protection process management, and incident response management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have earned CISSP certification as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and test systems, access control systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Read more information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP accreditation following rigorous testing and significant hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Find out more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure IT Infrastructure Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned 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 security 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 processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security features for all critical system functions, define effective design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Services
The CISA credential is a globally recognized achievement that represents mastery in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has consultants undergo an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit services, information technology governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology service delivery, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and maintain information system controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and execute a workplace continuity plan based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially assessing your IS control design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for implementing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that an accredited security consultant has the knowledge appropriate to deliver support in critical areas of system, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of certified security engineers for all of the security services covered within GIAC accreditation topics including auditing IT infrastructure, incident response, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your company is situated in Atlanta Georgia and you're looking for network security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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