Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online assistance with network security problems, businesses in Augusta-Richmond County, GA, can find expert troubleshooting from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote support staff is available to offer fast and affordable assistance with security issues that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to support systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services encompasses firewall technology, email security, secure network infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the industry's top security certifications including CISA and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides remote security support on a by-the-minute model without minimum times and no additional fees for setup or after hours service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions entail major bills.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your business is now experiencing a security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Support to see how to receive immediate aid. Progent has a team of veteran cybersecurity experts who offer online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations that have prepared in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step incident response procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of handling a serious security attack.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Coordinating computer security and planning for recovering vital information and functions following an attack requires a continual effort involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified experts can assist your business at any level in your efforts to protect your information network, ranging from security audits to designing a complete security program. Key areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Every organization should develop a carefully thought out security plan that includes both proactive and responsive steps. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies procedures to assist security personnel to assess the damage caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore business activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your business operations. Progent can configure scanning utilities, create and build a secure IT infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies that will maximize the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy safe offsite connectivity to e-mail and data, and install an effective VPN.

If your company is interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options include automated online network monitoring and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with regulatory security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in recovering networks and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have failed following a security attack. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses resulting from the attack, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover information compromised as a result of the breach. Progent's security specialists can also manage a thorough forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and using other proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to recommend effective measures to prevent or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and restoration services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of network management outsourcing 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): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to manage the complete threat lifecycle including blocking, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's unique needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent can also help you to set up and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid restoration of vital files, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can deliver world-class support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can help you to restore your critical information. 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 filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading data security companies to deliver centralized management and world-class 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 device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

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 key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, find and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time spent looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require as soon as you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's veteran engineers offer world-class expertise in vital areas of network security including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic system tests to reveal possible security holes. Progent has broad skills with these utilities and can help your company to analyze audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web application validation and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key worldwide security specifications such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including in-place wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Learn additional details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth technical support for Cisco's complete family of security and VPN solutions such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Find out more details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and VPN Technologies
In addition to being expert in a broad range of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size top-level engineering services for products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Consulting
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWALL Expertise
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the fundamental skills and worldwide benchmarks of performance that IT security professionals are required to achieve. It offers business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their accreditation have the experience and knowledge to provide effective security administration and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to assist your enterprise in critical security disciplines such as information protection governance, vulnerability assessment, information protection program control, and crisis handling support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP status as a result of demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security architecture and models, connection permission systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of thorough examination and extensive hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified 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 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 cybersecurity consultant to help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (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 requires that candidates undergo an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to help businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, information technology administration, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, safeguarding information assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Consultants
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and maintain information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially evaluating your IT control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of computer security experts. GIAC's goal is to ensure that an accredited professional has the knowledge needed to deliver support in critical categories of network, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and institutions around the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of certified consultants for any of the security services addressed under GIAC certification topics such as assessing security systems, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Support
If your business is located in Augusta-Richmond County or anywhere in Georgia and you're looking for network security consulting, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.