Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast remote assistance with network security issues, companies in Augusta-Richmond County Georgia have access to expert support by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are ready to provide efficient and low-cost assistance with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's security engineers are certified to support environments powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of consulting services encompasses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security certifications including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides online security support on a by-the-minute model with no minimum call duration and without additional fees for sign-up or after hours service. By charging per minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's pricing model keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where simple fixes entail big bills.

We've Been Hacked: What Should We Do Now?
In case you are currently faced with a security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Online Technical Help to see how to get immediate assistance. Progent maintains a pool of veteran cybersecurity experts who offer online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For businesses who have planned carefully for a security breech, the formal incident handling model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security penetration.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Coordinating data protection and preparedness for restoring vital information and systems after an attack requires a continual process that entails a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can help your business at any level in your attempt to safeguard your IT system, from security audits to creating a complete security plan. Some areas covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Threats.

Planning and Implementing Protected Environments
Any organization should develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both proactive and reactive elements. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that helps to minimize security gaps. The reactive strategy defines procedures to help security personnel to inventory the losses caused by an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and revive network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your business processes. Progent can install scanning software, create and implement a safe computer infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies that will enhance the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy safe offsite connectivity to email and data, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages feature non-stop remote server tracking and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud resources and that comply with regulatory security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides expertise in recovering systems and computers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have failed as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to determine the damage caused by the assault, restore ordinary business operations, and recover data compromised owing to the event. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by examining event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend effective measures to avoid or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an IT network victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware removal and restoration services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates next generation behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to address the complete malware attack lifecycle including protection, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and verify a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and allows fast restoration of critical data, applications and VMs that have become lost or corrupted as a result of component failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to recover your critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the technology of top information security companies to provide centralized management and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more information, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware solution without a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, retrieve and protect information related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save as much as half of time wasted trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need when you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants offer world-class consulting support in vital areas of network protection including:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive network scans to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with testing utilities and can assist your company to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web software testing and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key worldwide security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment plus portable devices. Read additional details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth technical support for Cisco's entire family of protection and VPN technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Learn more information about Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as supporting a wide array of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes expert support for products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

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

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
CISM defines the basic skills and international benchmarks of performance that information security professionals are expected to master. It provides executive management the confidence that those who have been awarded their accreditation possess the experience and knowledge to provide effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to assist your enterprise in vital security disciplines including data protection governance, vulnerability assessment, data protection process management, and crisis response management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have earned CISSP status through verified experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security design and models, connection control methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Read more information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP status after rigorous examination and significant experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Support Services
The CISA accreditation is an important qualification that signifies mastery in IS security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an extensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security engineer trained to help companies in the areas of information systems audit services, information technology administration, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding data assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to design, implement, and maintain IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively auditing your IS management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for designing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security engineers. GIAC's mission is to verify that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to provide services in key areas of network, data, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the expertise of certified security engineers for any of the security capabilities covered within GIAC certification topics such as auditing networks, incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is situated in Augusta-Richmond County Georgia and you want cybersecurity support services, phone 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.