Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote assistance with network security problems, businesses in Austin Texas can find expert support by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is available to provide effective and low-cost help with security problems that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security engineers are certified to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, secure system architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's top security credentials including Global Information Assurance Certification and CISSP.

Progent provides online security support services on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum call duration and no extra fees for sign-up or off-hour support. By billing per minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses under control and eliminates situations where quick solutions turn into major bills.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Can We Do Now?
If your network is now experiencing a security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Network Help to see how to receive fast assistance. Progent has a team of veteran network security experts who offer online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to guard against future exploits.

For organizations that have prepared beforehand for a security breech, the formal post-attack response procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of handling a serious security attack.

Overview of Security Expertise
Managing network security plus planning for recovering critical data and functions following a security breach requires an on-going program that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security consultants can assist your business at any level in your attempt to protect your IT network, ranging from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security plan. Important areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Environments
Any company should develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive steps. The proactive plan is a set of precautions that works to minimize security gaps. The post-attack plan defines activities to assist security personnel to inventory the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and revive business functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your business processes. Progent can configure scanning utilities, create and execute a secure IT infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to enhance the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to set up a firewall, design protected online and mobile connectivity to email and information, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an economical way for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages feature automated online network tracking and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that are compliant with government security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in recovering networks and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have stopped working as a result of a security attack. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage caused by the attack, return your company to normal business operations, and recover information lost owing to the assault. Progent's security specialists can also manage a comprehensive failure analysis by examining event logs and utilizing other proven forensics techniques. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to suggest effective strategies to prevent or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an information system that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight series of network monitoring and management 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. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the entire malware attack progression including blocking, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver economical in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also assist you to set up and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and allows rapid recovery of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve 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 storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Read 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 information security vendors to deliver web-based control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, see 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 key servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hosting environment without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more details 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 makes it easy to create, maintain, retrieve and protect information about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save up to half of time spent looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need the instant you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran engineers can provide unique expertise in key facets of computer security including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive system tests to identify possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with these utilities and can assist you to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web application testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major global security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment plus portable devices. Find out additional details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's entire range of protection and VPN products including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn more information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a broad range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes advanced consulting for solutions from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
CISM identifies the core skills and international standards of performance that information technology security professionals are required to master. CISM offers business management the assurance that those who have earned their accreditation possess the experience and skill to provide effective security management and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to assist your organization in key security areas including data security governance, vulnerability management, information security process control, and crisis handling management.

Find out more information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise.

CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through verified experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included within CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and models, connection control methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn additional information about Progent's CISSP Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have been awarded ISSAP certification as a result of rigorous examination and substantial experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Learn more details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected System Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 security analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The CISA credential is a globally recognized qualification that indicates expertise in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that candidates pass an extensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security audit professional trained to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit services, IT administration, systems and architecture lifecycle, IT support, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Get the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Expertise.

CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA to verify a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially assessing your IT management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

Read more information about Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Support.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of computer security professionals. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified professional has the knowledge needed to deliver support in vital areas of network, data, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the network security disciplines addressed under GIAC certification programs such as auditing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

Find out more details about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Support.

Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Support
If your business is located in Austin Texas and you want network security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout Central and South Texas.