Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online assistance with data security issues, businesses in Augusta-Richmond County, GA, can find world-class support by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote support staff is available to offer fast and economical help with security problems that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for systems based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services addresses firewall expertise, email security, protected network architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has earned the industry's top security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides online security support on a per-minute basis with no minimum minutes and no extra fees for sign-up or after hours service. By billing per minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses under control and avoids scenarios where simple solutions result in major expenses.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do?
In case you are currently experiencing a network security crisis, visit Progent's Urgent Online Computer Help to find out how to receive fast help. Progent maintains a team of certified network security experts who offer remote and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future attacks.

For companies who have prepared beforehand for a security breech, the step-by-step post-attack handling procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Coordinating computer security plus staying ready for recovering vital data and functions following an attack requires an on-going process that entails an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can assist your business at whatever level in your efforts to safeguard your information system, ranging from security assessments to creating a complete security strategy. Some technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Threats.

Designing and Implementing Protected Networks
Any company ought to develop a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and responsive steps. The proactive strategy is a collection of precautions that helps to reduce security gaps. The reactive strategy defines activities to assist security personnel to assess the damage resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore network functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your business operations. Progent can configure scanning utilities, create and implement a secure IT architecture, and propose processes and policies that will optimize the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to configure a firewall, design secure offsite connectivity to e-mail and information, and configure an effective virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an affordable way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services include automated remote network tracking and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud hosted resources and that comply with government and industry security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers skill in restoring systems and servers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function as a result of a security attack. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses resulting from the assault, return your company to ordinary business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the attack. Progent's security engineers can also manage a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining event logs and using a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to recommend efficient measures to avoid or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. 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 service that incorporates next generation behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete threat progression including blocking, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn 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 managed services deliver economical in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and allows fast recovery of critical files, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images/, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver world-class expertise to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can help you to recover 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 filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of top data security vendors to provide centralized control and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more details, visit 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 business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting provider. Learn more details 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 allows you to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time thrown away looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require the instant you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security consultants offer unique specialized help in key facets of IT security such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with information risk auditing tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of automatic system tests to identify possible security holes. Progent has extensive skills with these utilities and can help you to understand assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web application testing and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important global security specifications such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment plus mobile handsets. Find out additional information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth technical support for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network technologies such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out the details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a broad array of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size top-level support for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWALL Support
• Symantec Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the fundamental competencies and worldwide standards of service that computer security managers are expected to master. CISM provides executive management the confidence that consultants who have earned their accreditation possess the experience and skill to offer effective security administration and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to help your organization in key security disciplines including data protection governance, risk management, data protection program control, and incident handling management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification through verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP status official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security design and test systems, access control methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Find out more details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP qualified cybersecurity consultants have earned ISSAP status after rigorous testing and extensive experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Qualified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations 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 help your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a prestigious qualification that represents expertise in IS security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has consultants pass an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-qualified security audit engineer trained to help companies in the areas of IS audit process, IT administration, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC Risk Management Experts
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's skills to plan, implement, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-certified security engineers for impartially evaluating your IT control design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for designing security policies.

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GIAC Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified security consultant has the skills appropriate to provide services in important categories of network, information, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations around the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the network security services covered under GIAC certification programs such as auditing perimeters, incident response, traffic analysis, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your business is located in Augusta-Richmond County or anywhere in Georgia and you're looking for cybersecurity consulting, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.