Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate remote assistance with computer security problems, businesses in Augusta-Richmond County Georgia can find world-class troubleshooting from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support consultants are ready to provide effective and low-cost help with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to provide help for systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services covers firewall configuration, email security, protected network design, and business continuity planning. Progent's support team has earned the world's top security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides remote security assistance on a by-the-minute basis without minimum minutes and without additional charges for setup or after hours service. By billing per minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's pricing model keeps costs under control and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions entail big charges.

We've Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
In case your network is currently experiencing a security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Online Technical Support to see how to receive fast help. Progent has a pool of seasoned cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to protect against future exploits.

For organizations who have planned beforehand for an attack, the formal post-attack response model outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating computer security and preparedness for recovering vital data and functions after a security breach requires an on-going program that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified consultants can assist your organization at any level in your efforts to guard your information network, ranging from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Key areas supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Networks
Every organization should develop a thoroughly considered security plan that includes both proactive and reactive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy specifies activities to assist IT staff to evaluate the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and revive business functions as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can install auditing utilities, define and build a secure IT architecture, and recommend processes and policies to maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy protected remote connectivity to email and information, and configure an effective VPN.

If your company is looking for an affordable option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages feature continual online server tracking and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud hosted resources and that are compliant with government data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering networks and computers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have failed following a security penetration. Progent can help assess the damage resulting from the breach, return your company to normal functions, and retrieve data compromised owing to the event. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over activity logs and using other proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your downtime and permits Progent to recommend efficient ways to avoid or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore a network victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management offer organizations of all sizes a versatile and cost-effective alternative for assessing, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT network. In addition to maximizing the security and reliability of your IT network, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your in-house IT team to focus on line-of-business projects and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.

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

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to manage the entire threat lifecycle including protection, detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique needs and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also help your company to install and test a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and allows rapid recovery of vital data, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver centralized management and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting solution without a lengthy and difficult 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: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect data about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to 50% of time spent looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's veteran consultants can provide unique expertise in key areas of IT security including:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a set of automatic network scans to uncover possible security holes. Progent has broad experience with these utilities and can assist you to analyze audit results and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web application testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major global security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment plus portable devices. Learn more information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network technologies including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Read additional details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as supporting a wide array of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size top-level consulting for security products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

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

CISM Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the fundamental competencies and worldwide benchmarks of performance that computer security professionals are expected to master. It offers business management the confidence that consultants who have earned their accreditation have the experience and skill to provide effective security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to assist your enterprise in key security areas including data protection governance, risk management, information security process control, and crisis handling management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated experience, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include security management practices, security design and models, access control methodology, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts have been awarded ISSAP status after thorough testing and extensive experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth knowledge of access management systems and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your business with all phases of architecture security.

Get additional information concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected System Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the services associated with 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 cybersecurity consultant to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define efficient design strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

Learn the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is an important qualification that indicates expertise in information system security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that consultants pass a comprehensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer able to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit process, IT enforcement, network assets and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity preparedness.

Learn the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services.

CRISC-certified Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to plan, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and execute a business continuity strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively evaluating your IT management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for defining security policies.

Get more details concerning Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Support.

GIAC Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified professional possesses the skills needed to provide services in vital areas of network, information, and program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the help of certified security engineers for all of the network security services covered within GIAC certification programs including auditing IT infrastructure, incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

Find out additional information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Depend on Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Augusta-Richmond County Georgia and you want network security consulting expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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