Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast online help with data security problems, companies in Baltimore Maryland can find world-class expertise from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online support consultants are ready to provide fast and affordable help with security crises that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to support systems based on Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad array of services encompasses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected network design, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's top security accreditations including Global Information Assurance Certification and ISSAP.

Progent provides remote security support services on a per-minute model with no minimum minutes and without additional charges for setup or after hours service. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps costs low and avoids situations where simple solutions entail big expenses.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
In case you are now experiencing a network security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Online Technical Help to see how to get fast help. Progent has a pool of veteran cybersecurity specialists who can provide online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For organizations that have prepared beforehand for being hacked, the formal incident handling model outlined by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Coordinating network protection and preparedness for restoring critical data and functions following an attack requires a continual effort involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's security engineers can help your organization at whatever level in your attempt to guard your information system, ranging from security evaluation to designing a complete security strategy. Important technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Attacks.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Every business should develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both preventive and reactive elements. The pre-attack plan is a collection of precautions that works to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to assist IT personnel to evaluate the damage caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the experience, and revive business functions as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning software, create and implement a safe IT infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to optimize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy protected online and mobile access to email and information, and configure an effective VPN.

If you are interested in an economical way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages include non-stop online system tracking and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud resources and that are compliant with government security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in restoring networks and devices that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have failed following a security breach. Progent can help determine the damage caused by the assault, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve data lost as a result of the event. Progent's certified specialists can also oversee a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over activity logs and using other advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest efficient measures to prevent or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware removal and recovery services.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective solution for assessing, validating, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving IT system. In addition to maximizing the security and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your in-house IT staff to concentrate on more strategic projects and activities that deliver maximum business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's patch management services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of network management outsourcing 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 (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior analysis tools to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to automate the entire threat progression including filtering, identification, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and allows fast restoration of vital data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to recover your critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading information security companies to deliver centralized control and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find 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 save up to 50% of time thrown away searching for 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 and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers can provide unique expertise in vital facets of network security including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with security evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic network scans to identify potential security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with these and similar tools and can help your company to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web application validation and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with key industry security specifications such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Find out more details about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class consulting support for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Read more information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a wide array of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size advanced engineering services for security products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

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

CISM Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the fundamental competencies and international standards of performance that information technology security professionals are required to master. CISM provides executive management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their certification have the background and skill to offer efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to assist your enterprise in vital security areas such as data security governance, risk assessment, data protection process management, and crisis response support.

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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 certification through verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and test systems, access permission systems, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation following rigorous testing and extensive experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can help your business with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a recognized achievement that represents mastery in information system security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that candidates pass an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit process, IT administration, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting information resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to plan, implement, and maintain information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively evaluating your IS management design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security experts. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge appropriate to deliver services in important areas of system, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the support of certified consultants for all of the network security capabilities addressed under GIAC certification programs such as assessing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Help
If your business is situated in Baltimore Maryland and you need cybersecurity engineering help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Greater Washington DC Metro Area including suburban Maryland and Virginia.