Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate online assistance with network security problems, businesses in Baltimore Maryland can find world-class expertise from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online support staff is available to provide efficient and low-cost help with security crises that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to provide help for systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services addresses firewall expertise, email security, protected system design, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has earned the industry's top security certifications including CISM and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers online security assistance on a per-minute basis without minimum call duration and no additional charges for setup or after hours service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where simple fixes entail major bills.

We've Been Hacked: What Do We Do?
If you are currently fighting a network security crisis, go to Progent's Urgent Online Technical Help to learn how to receive immediate aid. Progent maintains a team of certified network security experts who can provide online and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security posture to guard against future exploits.

For organizations who have planned in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step incident handling procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating computer security plus preparation for restoring vital information and functions after a security breach demands an on-going process that entails a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified security experts can assist your organization at whatever level in your attempt to secure your IT system, from security audits to creating a complete security program. Some areas covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Every organization ought to have a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both proactive and responsive steps. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The reactive plan specifies procedures to help security staff to assess the losses caused by an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and restore business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your company operations. Progent can set up auditing utilities, define and execute a safe IT architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, design secure offsite connectivity to email and information, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages include non-stop online network monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with government and industry security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides expertise in restoring networks and computers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have stopped working because of a security breach. Progent can show you how to assess the damage caused by the assault, return your company to normal functions, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's security engineers can also manage a thorough forensic evaluation by examining activity logs and using a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security issues reduces your downtime and allows Progent to propose efficient ways to avoid or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an IT network damaged by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of all sizes a versatile and cost-effective alternative for assessing, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving information network. Besides maximizing the security and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's patch management services free up time for your in-house IT staff to focus on line-of-business initiatives and activities that derive maximum business value from your information network. Learn more about Progent's patch management services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of network monitoring and management 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. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire threat progression including blocking, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device management, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and enables rapid recovery of vital data, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver world-class support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the technology of top data security companies to provide web-based management and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs 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 fast virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware solution without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and protect information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran engineers offer world-class support in vital areas of network protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a set of automatic network tests to uncover possible security holes. Progent has broad skills with these utilities and can help your company to analyze audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web application testing and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major global security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment as well as portable devices. Find out additional information concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class technical services for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out more information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
As well as supporting a wide range of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes advanced consulting for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

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

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the core competencies and international benchmarks of service that computer security managers are required to master. It offers business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their accreditation possess the background and knowledge to offer efficient security administration and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM support professional to assist your organization in key security areas including data security governance, risk assessment, data protection program management, and incident handling management.

Get more information concerning Progent's CISM Security Support Services.

CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP status as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included under CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and test systems, access control methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out the details concerning Progent's CISSP Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP certification after thorough testing and substantial experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive understanding of access management systems and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Learn additional information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure IT Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations 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 help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The CISA credential is an important qualification that indicates mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants pass a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant trained to help companies in the fields of information systems audit process, IT enforcement, systems and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity planning.

Learn additional details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Expertise.

CRISC-certified Risk Management Experts
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and maintain information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and execute a business continuity strategy based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially evaluating your IS control design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for defining security policies.

Learn more details concerning Progent's CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Support.

Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security engineers. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver support in important areas of system, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of certified consultants for any of the security capabilities covered within GIAC accreditation topics such as auditing security systems, incident handling, traffic analysis, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your business is situated in Baltimore Maryland and you're looking for computer security help, call 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.