Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote help with computer security problems, companies in Baltimore Maryland can find world-class support by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service staff is available to provide efficient and low-cost help with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security engineers are certified to support systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email security, protected network infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides remote security support on a per-minute model without minimum call duration and no additional fees for setup or off-hour support. By charging per minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's billing model keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where quick fixes turn into big expenses.

We've Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
If you are now experiencing a network security emergency, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Technical Support to learn how to get immediate assistance. Progent has a team of veteran network security specialists who offer online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future attacks.

For companies who have prepared beforehand for a security breech, the formal post-attack response procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Managing data protection and preparation for restoring critical data and systems following a security breach demands a continual program involving an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified security engineers can assist your business at any level in your attempt to secure your information network, ranging from security audits to creating a complete security program. Key technologies covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Any business should develop a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both proactive and responsive activity. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that works to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to assist security staff to inventory the losses caused by an attack, remediate the damage, document the experience, and revive business functions as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your business processes. Progent can set up scanning utilities, create and implement a safe IT architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy secure offsite connectivity to e-mail and data, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If you are interested in an economical way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options feature automated online system monitoring and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in recovering networks and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working because of a security attack. Progent can show you how to determine the damage caused by the assault, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover information lost as a result of the event. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a thorough forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and utilizing other proven forensics techniques. Progent's background with security issues reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to propose efficient ways to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to rebuild a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Consulting
Work-from-Home employees typically use their personal devices and often work in a poorly secured physical environment. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to cyber attacks and calls for judicious deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, thorough end-user training, and the development of security policies based on best practices. Progent's seasoned group of Work-from-home solutions consultants can help your business to plan, deploy and maintain a compliant cybersecurity solution that guards vital IT assets in networks that include remote workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management offer organizations of any size a versatile and affordable alternative for assessing, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving IT system. In addition to optimizing the protection and functionality of your IT network, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT staff to concentrate on line-of-business projects and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis tools to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require urgent action. Progent can also help you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
Progent has worked with advanced backup technology vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of subscription-based offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services automate and monitor your backup operations and enable transparent backup and rapid recovery of important files, apps, images, and VMs. ProSight DPS helps your business recover from data loss caused by equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, user mistakes, ill-intentioned insiders, or application bugs. Managed services available in the ProSight Data Protection product line include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent expert can help you to determine which of these fully managed backup services are best suited for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading information security companies to deliver web-based management and comprehensive protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo authentication service plans utilize Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected online account and give your password you are requested to verify who you are via a device that only you possess and that uses a different network channel. A broad selection of devices can be used as this added means of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate several validation devices. For more information about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for teleworkers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III 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 high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's IT support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hosting environment without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Learn 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, maintain, find and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can save up to 50% of time thrown away looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you're planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants offer world-class consulting support in key facets of network security such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive network scans to uncover potential security problems. Progent has broad skills with these and similar utilities and can help your company to analyze audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web software validation and can perform expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major worldwide security standards including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering in-place wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Get 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 Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class technical expertise for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn the details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
In addition to supporting a wide range of network security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes top-level support for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Consulting
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Engineering Services

CISM Security Consulting Services
CISM defines the core skills and international standards of performance that IT security professionals are required to master. It offers business management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their accreditation possess the background and skill to provide effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM expert to assist your enterprise in critical security disciplines such as information protection governance, risk management, information protection program management, and incident handling management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have earned CISSP status as a result of demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security design and models, connection permission systems, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification after rigorous testing and extensive hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth understanding of access control systems and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your business with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned 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 can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all critical system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a recognized qualification that represents mastery in network security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that candidates pass an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security consultant able to help businesses in the fields of IS audit services, IT governance, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a business continuity strategy 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 expertise is complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively auditing your IS management design and with the services of Progent's CISM experts for designing security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of computer security professionals. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited professional possesses the skills needed to provide services in important categories of network, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified consultants for all of the security services addressed under GIAC certification programs including assessing networks, 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 company is situated in Baltimore Maryland and you're trying to find cybersecurity support services, 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.