Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get fast online assistance with computer security issues, companies in Baltimore, MD, can find world-class support by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote support staff is ready to offer effective and affordable help with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to support systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services covers firewall expertise, email security, secure network infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's top security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides online security help on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and without extra fees for sign-up or after hours service. By charging per minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where quick fixes entail major expenses.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
In case your network is currently experiencing a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Network Help to learn how to receive fast help. Progent has a team of seasoned network security experts who can provide online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For organizations that have prepared in advance for a security breech, the formal incident handling model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a major security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Managing network security as well as preparedness for recovering critical information and systems after an attack requires an on-going effort involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified consultants can support your organization at whatever level in your efforts to secure your IT network, from security audits to designing a complete security program. Important areas supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Borne Threats.

Planning and Implementing Protected Networks
Every company should have a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive steps. The proactive plan is a collection of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines activities to help security staff to inventory the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and revive network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your business processes. Progent can configure scanning software, define and execute a secure IT architecture, and recommend processes and policies to optimize the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design secure offsite access to e-mail and information, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an affordable way for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options include continual online network tracking and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud hosted resources and that are compliant with government data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in recovering networks and devices that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed because of a security attack. Progent can show you how to assess the damage resulting from the assault, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve information lost owing to the breach. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a comprehensive forensic analysis by examining activity logs and using other proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to propose effective measures to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct an environment victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of outsourced network 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. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including protection, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require immediate action. Progent can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and enables fast recovery of vital files, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted due to hardware breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to recover your critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS 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 and email encryption service that uses the technology of top information security vendors to provide centralized management and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Learn more 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 makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants can provide world-class consulting support in vital facets of network security including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive system tests to identify possible security holes. Progent has broad skills with these utilities and can help your company to analyze audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web software testing and can conduct expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with key global security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment plus portable devices. Learn more details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical support for Cisco's entire family of security and VPN solutions such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out additional information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
In addition to supporting a broad array of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes expert support for products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

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

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
CISM identifies the basic skills and international benchmarks of service that information technology security professionals are required to master. It provides business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM possess the experience and skill to offer efficient security management and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM consultant to assist your enterprise in critical security disciplines including information security governance, vulnerability assessment, information security process control, and crisis handling support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have earned CISSP status as a result of demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security architecture and test systems, access permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have earned ISSAP status following rigorous testing and substantial hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises 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 support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a recognized qualification that signifies expertise in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass an extensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security engineer trained to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology enforcement, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Management Experts
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management expertise is a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively evaluating your IT management design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for designing security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified professional possesses the skills necessary to deliver support in critical categories of network, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the support of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the security disciplines covered under GIAC accreditation programs such as auditing security systems, incident handling, traffic analysis, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Help
If your company is situated in Baltimore or anywhere in Maryland and you're trying to find network security expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to 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.