Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast remote help with network security problems, businesses in Baltimore Maryland have access to expert troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is ready to provide effective and affordable assistance with security problems that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to provide help for systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services encompasses firewall technology, email security, secure system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security credentials including Global Information Assurance Certification and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides remote security help on a per-minute model with no minimum call duration and without additional fees for setup or off-hour support. By charging per minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where simple fixes entail big bills.

We've Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
In case your network is now experiencing a security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Network Help to learn how to receive immediate assistance. Progent has a pool of veteran network security experts who can provide online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity posture to protect against future attacks.

For businesses who have prepared beforehand for being hacked, the formal incident response model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a major security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Coordinating network protection plus preparedness for recovering critical data and systems after an attack requires a continual process involving a variety of tools and processes. Progent's security consultants can support your organization at whatever level in your attempt to protect your information network, ranging from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Key areas covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Attacks.

Planning and Building Protected Networks
Every company ought to develop a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive activity. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines procedures to assist IT personnel to evaluate the losses resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and restore business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to build security into your business operations. Progent can set up scanning utilities, create and execute a secure computer infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, design safe remote connectivity to email and data, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an affordable way for jobbing out your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services include continual remote system tracking and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 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 (GCP) integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers skill in restoring systems and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have stopped working following a security breach. Progent can show you how to assess the losses resulting from the breach, restore normal functions, and recover data compromised owing to the assault. Progent's security specialists can also manage a thorough failure evaluation by going over event logs and using a variety of proven forensics techniques. Progent's background with security issues reduces your downtime and allows Progent to suggest efficient measures to avoid or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct an information system damaged by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Expertise
Work-from-Home workers commonly use their own computers and usually operate in a poorly secured physical area. This situation multiplies their susceptibility to malware threats and calls for careful deployment of corporate firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, thorough user education, and the development of security policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned team of Work-from-home support consultants can assist you to plan, configure and manage an effective security solution that protects vital IT resources in networks that include telecommuters.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management provide organizations of all sizes a flexible and affordable alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your dynamic information system. In addition to optimizing the security and functionality of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your IT staff to focus on line-of-business projects and activities that deliver maximum business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight line of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. 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 (EPP) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete malware attack progression including filtering, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
Progent has worked with advanced backup/restore technology companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services manage and monitor your backup operations and allow transparent backup and fast restoration of critical files/folders, apps, system images, and VMs. ProSight DPS lets your business protect against data loss resulting from equipment failures, natural calamities, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, human error, malicious employees, or application bugs. Managed backup services available in the ProSight ProSight Data Protection family include ProSight Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Backup, ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to determine which of these fully managed services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the infrastructure of top data security companies to deliver centralized management and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Solutions
Progent's Duo authentication service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, whenever you log into a secured application and enter your password you are asked to confirm your identity on a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this added means of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may register multiple validation devices. To learn more about Duo two-factor identity validation services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for telecommuters.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Find out 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 makes it easy to create, maintain, find and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you�re making enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require the instant you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer unique specialized help in vital areas of IT protection including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a set of comprehensive network tests to identify potential security holes. Progent has broad experience with these and similar tools and can help your company to understand assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web software testing and can perform expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major global security specifications including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless equipment as well as portable devices. Get additional information concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's entire family of protection and VPN technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Learn more details about Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
In addition to supporting a wide array of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes advanced support for technologies from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Consulting
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the core competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that computer security professionals are expected to achieve. CISM provides business management the confidence that those who have been awarded their CISM possess the background and knowledge to offer efficient security administration and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to assist your enterprise in vital security disciplines including information protection governance, vulnerability management, data security program management, and incident response management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP certification as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security architecture and models, connection control systems, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough examination and extensive hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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CISA Security Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is an important qualification that signifies expertise in IS security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that consultants pass an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit professional trained to assist companies in the areas of IS audit process, information technology governance, systems and architecture planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and maintain IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively evaluating your IS management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for defining security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the skill of network security experts. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified professional has the skills needed to deliver services in important areas of network, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and government organizations all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified professionals for all of the security services covered under GIAC accreditation topics such as auditing networks, security incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your organization is situated in Baltimore Maryland and you're looking for computer security consulting, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go 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.