Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate remote assistance with data security problems, companies in Baltimore Maryland can find world-class support by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are available to offer fast and affordable help with security issues that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to support systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has earned the world's most advanced security credentials including CISA and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides online security assistance on a per-minute model without minimum times and no extra charges for setup or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where simple fixes turn into big bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
If your network is currently fighting a security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to see how to get immediate help. Progent has a team of seasoned network security specialists who can provide online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future exploits.

For businesses who have planned carefully for a security breech, the formal incident response procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of handling a serious security incident.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Coordinating data security plus preparation for restoring vital data and functions following an attack requires an on-going process involving an array of technologies and processes. Progent's security experts can support your organization at any level in your efforts to secure your information system, from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security program. Some technologies covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Any business ought to develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that works to reduce security gaps. The reactive strategy specifies activities to assist security personnel to inventory the losses resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore business activity as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your company operations. Progent can set up auditing software, define and build a secure network infrastructure, and propose processes and policies to maximize the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected remote access to e-mail and data, and configure an effective virtual private network.

If you are looking for an economical option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages include non-stop online network monitoring and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have stopped working as a result of a security penetration. Progent can help evaluate the losses resulting from the breach, restore normal business operations, and recover data compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's security specialists can also manage a comprehensive forensic analysis by examining activity logs and using other advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to recommend efficient measures to avoid or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore a network damaged by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio 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 facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that utilizes cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and allows fast restoration of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted due to component failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver world-class expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

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 vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security 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 acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware environment without a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Learn more 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 create, maintain, retrieve and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time spent trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require as soon as you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified consultants offer unique consulting support in key facets of IT security including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic system tests to uncover potential security problems. Progent has broad skills with scanning tools and can assist your company to understand audit results and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web application validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major worldwide security specifications including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Find out more information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Find out the details concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and VPN Technologies
In addition to being expert in a broad range of network security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size advanced consulting for technologies from other major firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the fundamental competencies and international benchmarks of service that computer security managers are expected to achieve. CISM provides business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM possess the background and skill to provide effective security management and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to help your organization in vital security areas including information protection governance, risk management, data security program control, and incident response support.

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CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP status as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security architecture and test systems, connection control methodology, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn additional details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP status after thorough testing and substantial experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Learn the details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected IT Infrastructure Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is an important qualification that signifies expertise in IS security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that candidates pass an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional trained to assist companies in the fields of IS audit process, IT enforcement, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology support, protecting information resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC IT Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and maintain IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation services are complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially auditing your IS control design and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for defining security policies.

Find out more information concerning Progent's CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Services.

Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security professionals. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified professional possesses the skills needed to deliver services in critical categories of system, information, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the expertise of certified consultants for any of the security disciplines addressed within GIAC accreditation programs including assessing security systems, incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Help
If your organization is located in Baltimore Maryland and you're trying to find network security expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to 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.