Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online assistance with computer security issues, companies in Baltimore, MD, can find world-class troubleshooting from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are available to offer fast and economical assistance with security crises that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to support systems based on Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad array of services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected network architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security certifications including Global Information Assurance Certification and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers online security help on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum minutes and without additional fees for sign-up or off-hour service. By billing by the minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's billing model keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where simple solutions turn into major expenses.

We've Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
If your business is currently experiencing a security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Help to learn how to get immediate assistance. Progent has a pool of certified network security specialists who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have planned carefully for a security breech, the formal incident handling model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security attack.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Managing data protection plus staying ready for recovering critical data and systems following a security breach demands an on-going program involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's security experts can help your business at all levels in your attempt to protect your information system, from security assessments to creating a complete security plan. Key areas covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Every organization should develop a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of precautions that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines activities to help IT staff to assess the losses caused by an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and restore network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your company processes. Progent can set up auditing utilities, define and implement a secure IT infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to enhance the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected online and mobile access to email and data, and install an efficient VPN.

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

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in restoring systems and servers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have stopped working following a security breach. Progent can help evaluate the damage resulting from the attack, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve information lost as a result of the attack. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a thorough failure evaluation by examining activity logs and using a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security problems reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to propose efficient strategies to prevent or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the services of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of outsourced network 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. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the entire threat lifecycle including filtering, detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's specific requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and allows rapid restoration of critical files, apps and VMs that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software glitches, 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 protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide world-class expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to recover your business-critical data. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading information security vendors to deliver web-based control and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

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 secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT 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 safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time spent searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require when you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer world-class specialized help in vital areas of IT protection such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive system tests to uncover possible security problems. Progent has extensive skills with testing tools and can assist you to understand assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web application validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key industry security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile devices. Find out the details about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class consulting support for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out additional information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and VPN Solutions
As well as being expert in a broad range of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size top-level consulting for products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the fundamental competencies and international standards of performance that computer security managers are expected to achieve. CISM offers executive management the confidence that those who have been awarded their CISM possess the experience and knowledge to offer effective security management and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM expert to help your enterprise in vital security disciplines including information security governance, vulnerability management, data security program control, and incident handling management.

Find out additional information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security design and models, connection permission systems, software development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation after thorough examination and significant experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Find out more details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations with the services associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your organization to follow modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, define effective design strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Support Expertise
The CISA credential is a globally recognized qualification that represents mastery in IS security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer trained to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit process, IT enforcement, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, protecting information assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and execute a workplace continuity strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management expertise is a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively evaluating your IT management design and also with the services of Progent's CISM experts for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security experts. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited professional has the knowledge appropriate to deliver services in vital categories of system, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the network security capabilities covered within GIAC certification programs including auditing security systems, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your business is situated in Baltimore or anywhere in Maryland and you want network security consulting expertise, phone 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.