Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate remote assistance with network security issues, companies in Augusta-Richmond County Georgia have access to world-class support from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support consultants are available to provide fast and affordable help with security crises that threaten the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure network infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support staff has earned the world's top security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides online security support services on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and no extra charges for setup or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's billing policy keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where simple solutions turn into big charges.

We've Been Attacked: What Do We Do Now?
In case you are currently experiencing a security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Network Support to see how to get fast help. Progent maintains a pool of veteran network security specialists who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future attacks.

For businesses who have prepared in advance for an attack, the formal incident response model promoted by GIAC is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating network security and planning for restoring vital data and functions following a security breach requires an on-going program that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's security consultants can support your organization at any level in your efforts to guard your IT system, from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security plan. Some areas supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Based Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Every business ought to have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that helps to minimize security gaps. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to assist IT staff to inventory the losses caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your business operations. Progent can install scanning utilities, define and implement a safe IT architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to enhance the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected online and mobile connectivity to email and data, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an affordable option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options include non-stop remote system monitoring and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and devices that have been hacked, are in question, or have stopped working following a security penetration. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the breach, restore normal functions, and retrieve information lost owing to the event. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a comprehensive forensic evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to recommend effective measures to avoid or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild a network damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

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 facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to manage the entire malware attack lifecycle including blocking, detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific needs and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and allows fast recovery of vital files, applications and VMs that have become lost or damaged due to component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to recover your business-critical data. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the technology of leading data security companies to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

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 critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time thrown away trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need as soon as you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security consultants can provide unique expertise in vital facets of computer protection including:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a set of automatic network tests to identify possible security gaps. Progent has broad skills with these and similar tools and can help your company to understand audit results and react efficiently. Progent's security consultants also can perform web application validation and can perform expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important industry security standards including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances as well as mobile devices. Read the details about Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class technical services for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network products such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Find out more information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a wide range of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes expert engineering services for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Engineering Services

CISM Security Consulting Services
CISM defines the fundamental competencies and international standards of performance that IT security professionals are expected to achieve. CISM provides business management the confidence that those who have earned their CISM have the experience and skill to provide effective security management and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM expert to assist your organization in critical security disciplines including data security governance, risk management, data protection process management, and incident handling management.

Read the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP status as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and test systems, access permission systems, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have been awarded ISSAP certification after rigorous examination and substantial hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected IT Infrastructure Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity 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 expected of 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 expert to assist your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that indicates mastery in IS security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo an extensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security consultant able to assist companies in the fields of IS audit services, information technology governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and execute a workplace continuity strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially evaluating your IS control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security engineers. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited security consultant possesses the skills necessary to deliver support in vital categories of system, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the support of certified consultants for any of the security services addressed within GIAC accreditation topics including assessing perimeters, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your organization is situated in Augusta-Richmond County Georgia and you're trying to find network security consulting expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Eastern Georgia and South Carolina.