Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote assistance with network security problems, companies in Baltimore, MD, can find expert expertise by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support staff is ready to provide fast and low-cost help with security issues that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to provide help for environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services encompasses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected system architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security accreditations including CISA and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides remote security support on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum call duration and without extra charges for setup or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps costs low and eliminates situations where quick solutions turn into major bills.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Should We Do Now?
In case you are currently faced with a security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Online Network Help to learn how to get immediate aid. Progent maintains a team of certified network security experts who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future exploits.

For companies that have planned carefully for a security breech, the formal post-attack handling procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Managing data security plus preparation for restoring critical data and systems following an attack requires an on-going process that entails an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's security experts can support your business at all levels in your efforts to safeguard your IT network, ranging from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security program. Important areas covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Every company should have a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and responsive steps. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that helps to minimize security gaps. The post-attack plan specifies activities to help security personnel to assess the losses caused by an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and revive network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your business processes. Progent can configure scanning utilities, create and build a secure computer architecture, and propose processes and policies that will optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy safe offsite connectivity to email and information, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services feature continual remote system tracking and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with regulatory security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and devices that have been hacked, are suspect, or have ceased to function following a security attack. Progent can show you how to assess the damage resulting from the assault, restore normal functions, and retrieve data lost owing to the attack. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing other proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest efficient measures to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an environment damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates next generation behavior machine learning tools to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to manage the entire threat progression including filtering, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against new threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require urgent attention. Progent can also help your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as 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 unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables rapid recovery of vital data, applications and VMs that have become lost or corrupted due to component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPPA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading information security vendors to provide centralized control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, find and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time wasted looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information 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 veteran engineers offer unique consulting support in key areas of IT protection such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of comprehensive system tests to identify possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with testing utilities and can help you to understand assessment reports and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web application validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key industry security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment plus portable devices. Read more information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class consulting support for Cisco's complete range of protection and VPN products including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Get the details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a wide range of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes expert support for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Engineering Services

CISM Security Support Expertise
CISM identifies the core skills and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information security professionals are required to master. CISM provides business management the confidence that consultants who have earned their certification possess the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM expert to assist your organization in vital security areas such as information security governance, vulnerability management, data protection process control, and crisis handling management.

Read additional information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and test systems, access permission systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Read more information concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP status following thorough examination and substantial experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have in-depth knowledge of access control mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.

Read the details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure IT Infrastructure Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security 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 security analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, develop efficient design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

Learn more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a recognized qualification that indicates expertise in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has consultants undergo a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security engineer able to help companies in the fields of IS audit services, IT administration, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology service delivery, protecting data resources, and business continuity preparedness.

Find out additional details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise.

CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and support IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially assessing your IS control design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for designing security policies.

Read additional details concerning Progent's CRISC IT Risk Management Consulting.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of computer security engineers. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills appropriate to deliver services in key categories of network, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the help of certified professionals for any of the security services covered within GIAC accreditation programs including assessing networks, security incident response, traffic analysis, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

Read more details concerning Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Contact Progent for Computer Security Support
If your organization is located in Baltimore or anywhere in Maryland and you're trying to find cybersecurity engineering help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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