Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast online assistance with network security issues, companies in Austin Texas have access to world-class support by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are ready to offer efficient and low-cost assistance with security issues that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to support systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of services addresses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, secure system architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including CISM and ISSAP.

Progent provides online security support on a by-the-minute model without minimum call duration and no additional fees for setup or after hours support. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs low and avoids situations where quick fixes entail major bills.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
If you are currently experiencing a network security emergency, visit Progent's Emergency Online Technical Support to find out how to receive fast aid. Progent has a pool of seasoned network security specialists who offer remote and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations that have prepared in advance for being hacked, the formal incident handling model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of responding to a serious security incident.

Overview of Security Services
Managing computer security as well as staying ready for restoring critical data and systems after an attack demands an on-going process that entails an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's security consultants can help your organization at all levels in your attempt to protect your information system, ranging from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security plan. Some areas covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.

Designing and Building Protected Environments
Every company ought to develop a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and responsive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that works to minimize security gaps. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to assist IT personnel to evaluate the damage caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the event, and revive network functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning software, create and implement a safe IT architecture, and propose procedures and policies to enhance the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to help you to set up a firewall, deploy protected offsite connectivity to email and information, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an affordable way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages feature non-stop remote server monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud-based resources and that comply with government security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and computers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have ceased to function as a result of a security attack. Progent can show you how to determine the losses resulting from the assault, restore ordinary functions, and retrieve information lost owing to the breach. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a thorough forensic evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing other proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to propose efficient measures to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild an IT network victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration 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 businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete malware attack lifecycle including protection, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific needs and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and enables fast recovery of vital data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to restore your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed 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 incorporates the technology of top data security vendors to provide web-based management and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. 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 network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting environment without a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, find and protect information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers can provide world-class support in key areas of network protection including:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic system scans to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these tools and can assist you to analyze audit results and react appropriately. Progent's security consultants also provide web application validation and can perform thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important worldwide security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Learn more information about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class technical support for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network products including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Learn more details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
As well as being expert in a wide array of protection solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size advanced consulting for technologies from other popular firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services
CISM defines the core skills and international benchmarks of performance that IT security managers are expected to achieve. It offers business management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their certification have the background and knowledge to provide effective security administration and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM expert to help your enterprise in vital security areas such as data security governance, risk management, information protection program management, and crisis handling management.

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CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have earned CISSP status as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered within CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security architecture and test systems, connection control systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Find out more information about Progent's CISSP Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough examination and extensive hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Find out the details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected Network Infrastructure Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
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 expert to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define effective design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Services
The CISA credential is an important qualification that indicates expertise in network security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants pass an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer able to help companies in the areas of information systems audit process, IT governance, systems and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity plan based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively assessing your IT control mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for implementing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of network security engineers. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited professional has the skills needed to deliver support in key areas of system, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the help of certified security engineers for any of the network security services covered under GIAC certification programs such as assessing security systems, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Help
If your company is situated in Austin Texas and you're trying to find cybersecurity support services, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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