Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate online assistance with computer security problems, businesses in Atlanta Georgia can find world-class expertise from Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support consultants are available to offer effective and low-cost help with security crises that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to provide help for environments based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services encompasses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security accreditations including CISA and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides remote security support on a per-minute model with no minimum minutes and no additional charges for sign-up or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where simple solutions result in big expenses.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
In case your business is currently experiencing a network security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Help to learn how to get fast aid. Progent maintains a team of certified network security experts who can provide remote and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations who have prepared in advance for a security breech, the formal incident handling procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Coordinating network protection plus planning for recovering vital data and functions after an attack requires a continual program that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified security professionals can assist your business at all levels in your attempt to secure your information network, from security assessments to creating a complete security program. Key technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Any company ought to develop a thoroughly considered security plan that includes both proactive and responsive steps. The proactive plan is a set of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies activities to help IT personnel to assess the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and restore network functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your company processes. Progent can set up scanning software, define and execute a secure IT architecture, and propose processes and policies that will optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to set up a firewall, design safe remote connectivity to e-mail and information, and configure an effective virtual private network.

If you are interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services feature non-stop remote network tracking and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration 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 expertise.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering systems and devices that have been hacked, are suspect, or have failed because of a security breakdown. Progent can help determine the damage resulting from the assault, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve data lost owing to the assault. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a thorough forensic evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing other proven assessment techniques. Progent's background with security issues reduces your downtime and permits Progent to propose effective measures to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an information system compromised by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management provide businesses of all sizes a flexible and affordable solution for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your dynamic information system. In addition to maximizing the security and functionality of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services allow your in-house IT staff to concentrate on line-of-business projects and tasks that derive the highest business value from your network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight series of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete threat progression including blocking, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver affordable in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
Progent has worked with advanced backup technology vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services automate and monitor your data backup processes and enable non-disruptive backup and fast restoration of vital files/folders, apps, system images, and virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps your business protect against data loss resulting from equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, human error, malicious employees, or software glitches. Managed backup services available in the ProSight ProSight Data Protection product line include ProSight Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Total Backup, ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent expert can help you to determine which of these fully managed backup services are best suited for your IT environment.

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 technology of top data security companies to provide web-based management and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo MFA service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, when you sign into a protected online account and give your password you are asked to confirm who you are via a unit that only you possess and that uses a different network channel. A broad range of devices can be utilized as this added means of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate several verification devices. To learn more about Duo two-factor identity validation services, see Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.

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 applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting solution without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation process. 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: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, find and safeguard data related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time wasted trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers 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 need the instant you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants can provide world-class expertise in key areas of IT security such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk auditing tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a set of automatic network tests to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with these and similar tools and can help your company to analyze audit results and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web application validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major worldwide security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile devices. Learn more details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Read additional information about Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
As well as supporting a broad range of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of any size top-level engineering services for technologies from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Technical Assistance

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the fundamental skills and international benchmarks of performance that information security professionals are expected to master. It provides business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their CISM possess the background and skill to provide efficient security management and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to help your enterprise in vital security areas including data security governance, vulnerability assessment, information protection process management, and crisis handling management.

Read additional information concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise.

CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included within CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and test systems, access permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Get the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have earned ISSAP certification as a result of thorough testing and significant hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected System Architecture Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

Find out more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting Services.

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a globally recognized qualification that indicates mastery in IS security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to help companies in the areas of IS audit process, IT enforcement, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT support, protecting data assets, and business continuity planning.

Read more information concerning Progent's CISA Support Services.

CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's skills to plan, implement, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and carry out a business continuity strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially auditing your IT management design and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

Read the details concerning Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Expertise.

Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security experts. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills appropriate to provide services in important areas of network, data, and software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. NSA. Progent offers the support of GIAC certified professionals for any of the network security disciplines covered within GIAC accreditation topics such as assessing security systems, incident response, traffic analysis, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

Learn additional information concerning Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Contact Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your company is situated in Atlanta Georgia and you need network security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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