Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote help with network security issues, businesses in Baltimore, MD, can find expert support by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support consultants are available to offer fast and economical assistance with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's security consultants are premier to support systems based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected network design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security accreditations including CISM and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers remote security support on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum times and no additional fees for setup or after hours service. By charging per minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's billing structure keeps costs low and avoids scenarios where simple fixes turn into big expenses.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
In case you are currently experiencing a network security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Online Network Help to find out how to get fast assistance. Progent maintains a pool of veteran cybersecurity experts who offer online and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For organizations who have prepared carefully for a security breech, the step-by-step incident handling procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security attack.

Overview of Security Support Services
Managing data protection and staying ready for restoring critical data and functions following an attack requires an on-going effort involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's security professionals can support your organization at all levels in your attempt to protect your IT system, ranging from security evaluation to designing a complete security plan. Some areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from Email-Borne Threats.

Designing and Implementing Secure Networks
Any organization ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive steps. The proactive strategy is a set of precautions that works to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan specifies procedures to assist IT personnel to inventory the damage resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to design security into your business processes. Progent can configure auditing utilities, create and implement a secure computer architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy secure online and mobile access to e-mail and data, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an affordable way for jobbing out your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages feature non-stop remote server tracking and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with government data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in recovering networks and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have ceased to function as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the breach, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve information lost owing to the assault. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a thorough forensic evaluation by going over event logs and using other proven assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to recommend efficient strategies to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct an information system compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight family 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 available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including protection, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-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 Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and allows fast recovery of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPPA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your critical data. Learn 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 incorporates the technology of top information security companies to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single 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 makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away searching 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 network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need as soon as you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants can provide world-class expertise in vital facets of computer security such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with information risk auditing utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a set of automatic system scans to reveal possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with testing tools and can assist you to understand assessment results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web application validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key worldwide security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances as well as mobile devices. Get additional information about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class consulting support for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Get more information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as supporting a broad array of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of any size advanced engineering services for solutions from other popular firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

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

CISM Security Support Expertise
CISM identifies the basic competencies and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information security professionals are expected to achieve. It offers executive management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their certification possess the background and skill to provide effective security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM consultant to help your enterprise in key security disciplines such as data protection governance, vulnerability assessment, data security process control, and incident response support.

Read the details about Progent's CISM Security Support Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP status through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered within CISSP include security administration practices, security design and test systems, access control methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Read more details concerning Progent's CISSP Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough examination and substantial experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Find out the details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, define effective configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important qualification that signifies expertise in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that candidates pass a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to help companies in the fields of IS audit services, IT governance, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, protecting data resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Learn additional information concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Expertise.

CRISC IT Risk Management Experts
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and support IS controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively assessing your IT management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for designing company-wide security policies.

Learn additional details about Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Services.

GIAC Support Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security professionals. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified security consultant has the skills necessary to provide services in important categories of system, data, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and institutions throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of certified consultants for any of the network security disciplines addressed under GIAC accreditation topics such as auditing perimeters, incident handling, traffic analysis, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

Learn additional information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Depend on Progent for Network Security Support
If your organization is situated in Baltimore or elsewhere in the state of Maryland and you're trying to find network security consulting, phone 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.