Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online help with network security problems, businesses in Atlanta Georgia have access to expert support by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service staff is ready to provide fast and affordable help with security crises that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to support environments based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services encompasses firewall technology, email security, secure system design, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's top security accreditations including Global Information Assurance Certification and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides remote security help on a by-the-minute model with no minimum times and without extra charges for sign-up or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions turn into big charges.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your business is now fighting a security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Help to see how to receive fast help. Progent has a pool of veteran network security specialists who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security posture to guard against future attacks.

For businesses who have prepared beforehand for being hacked, the formal post-attack response procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of handling a serious security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating computer protection and planning for restoring vital data and systems after an attack requires an on-going program that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's security professionals can help your business at any level in your attempt to protect your IT system, from security audits to creating a complete security strategy. Some technologies covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Any company should have a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy defines procedures to assist security personnel to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and revive business activity as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your business processes. Progent can install auditing software, define and execute a secure computer infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies that will maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to configure a firewall, design safe offsite connectivity to email and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an affordable way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages feature automated remote network tracking and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with regulatory security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 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 (GCP) planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in restoring systems and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working following a security breach. Progent can help evaluate the damage resulting from the attack, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover data lost as a result of the event. Progent's security engineers can also manage a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over event logs and using a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to suggest effective strategies to avoid or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild an environment damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

{Work-from-Home (WFH) Cybersecurity Solutions
{Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members commonly use their own computing devices and usually operate in a unsecured physical environment. This multiplies their vulnerability to malware attacks and requires careful configuration of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive user training, and the development of security policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned group of at-home workforce support experts can assist you to plan, configure and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that guards vital IT assets in environments that incorporate remote workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of all sizes a flexible and affordable solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic information network. Besides maximizing the security and reliability of your IT network, Progent's patch management services permit your IT team to focus on line-of-business initiatives and activities that derive the highest business value from your information network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight family of managed 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. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the entire malware attack progression including protection, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent can also assist you to install and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
Progent has worked with leading backup product vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of subscription-based offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services manage and track your data backup processes and enable non-disruptive backup and fast recovery of critical files/folders, applications, system images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps your business avoid data loss resulting from hardware breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware like ransomware, human error, ill-intentioned insiders, or software bugs. Managed backup services available in the ProSight DPS product line include ProSight DPS Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to determine which of these fully managed 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 technology of top data security vendors to deliver web-based management and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo MFA service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, when you log into a secured online account and give your password you are requested to confirm your identity via a device that only you have and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A wide selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this added means of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register multiple validation devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) 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 business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware solution without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure 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 information about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time spent trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you�re planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require when you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security engineers can provide world-class expertise in vital areas of network protection including:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of comprehensive system tests to uncover possible security problems. Progent has broad experience with these and similar tools and can help your company to understand audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also offer web application validation and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key worldwide security specifications such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment as well as portable devices. Get more information concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth technical support for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Get more details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
As well as being expert in a wide range of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes top-level support for technologies from other popular firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the basic competencies and international benchmarks of performance that information security managers are expected to achieve. CISM provides business management the confidence that those who have earned their accreditation have the background and skill to provide efficient security management and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to help your enterprise in critical security disciplines including data security governance, risk management, data protection process management, and incident handling management.

Find out additional details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services.

CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation through verified professional work, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included within CISSP include security administration practices, security design and test systems, connection control systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Find out additional information about Progent's CISSP Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have been awarded ISSAP status following rigorous testing and substantial experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity 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 can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your enterprise to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, develop effective design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is an important achievement that signifies expertise in information system security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has consultants pass a comprehensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant able to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, protecting information assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively evaluating your IS management mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM support professionals for defining security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited professional possesses the skills appropriate to provide support in critical categories of network, information, and application software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions throughout the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified consultants for any of the security capabilities covered within GIAC certification programs such as assessing security systems, security incident response, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Support
If your company is located in Atlanta Georgia and you're looking for network security consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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