Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote assistance with computer security problems, companies in Austin Texas can find expert expertise by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support staff is ready to offer effective and affordable assistance with security emergencies that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to support environments based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure system infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides online security expertise on a per-minute basis with no minimum call duration and no extra fees for setup or after hours service. By charging per minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses under control and avoids scenarios where simple solutions result in big expenses.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do?
In case your network is currently faced with a security crisis, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Help to see how to receive immediate help. Progent maintains a team of veteran cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For businesses who have planned in advance for an attack, the step-by-step incident response 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 data protection and staying ready for restoring critical information and systems after a security breach demands a continual effort involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security professionals can support your organization at whatever level in your efforts to guard your IT network, ranging from security assessments to designing a comprehensive security plan. Key areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Borne Threats.

Designing and Building Secure Networks
Any company should develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to help security staff to assess the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your business processes. Progent can configure auditing software, define and build a secure IT architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will enhance the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design protected offsite access to e-mail and information, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an affordable way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options feature continual remote system tracking and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud hosted infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in restoring networks and computers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function because of a security attack. Progent can show you how to determine the damage caused by the attack, return your company to normal business operations, and recover data compromised as a result of the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also oversee a comprehensive failure analysis by examining event logs and using a variety of advanced assessment techniques. Progent's background with security problems reduces your downtime and permits Progent to propose efficient ways to prevent or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild an information system damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of managed 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. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire malware attack lifecycle including protection, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security standards. Progent will help you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and enables fast recovery of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory standards such as HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can help you to restore your business-critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the infrastructure of top information security vendors to deliver centralized management and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a further level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit 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 critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting solution without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting provider. 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 an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time wasted looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need the instant you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified consultants offer unique specialized help in vital areas of computer security including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a set of comprehensive network tests to reveal potential security holes. Progent has broad skills with these and similar utilities and can help you to understand audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also offer web software validation and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to determine 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 appliances as well as portable devices. Get more details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out additional details concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
As well as supporting a broad array of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes advanced consulting for solutions from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Expertise
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager defines the fundamental skills and international standards of service that computer security professionals are expected to master. CISM provides business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their certification have the background and skill to offer efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM support professional to assist your enterprise in key security areas such as information security governance, risk assessment, information security process management, and incident response management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and models, access control methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have been awarded ISSAP certification as a result of rigorous testing and significant experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth knowledge of access control systems and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your business with all aspects of architecture security.

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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 expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious achievement that signifies mastery in network security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants pass an extensive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit process, IT governance, network assets and architecture lifecycle, IT support, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and maintain IS controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management services are complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially assessing your IS management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security engineers. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified professional possesses the skills necessary to provide services in key areas of system, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations around the world including U.S. NSA. Progent offers the expertise of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the network security services addressed under GIAC accreditation programs such as auditing security systems, incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Austin Texas and you want cybersecurity consulting, phone 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.