Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate online assistance with data security problems, companies in Baton Rouge Louisiana have access to world-class expertise by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are available to offer fast and low-cost assistance with security issues that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to provide help for systems powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected network architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support team has earned the world's most advanced security certifications including Global Information Assurance Certification and ISSAP.

Progent provides online security support on a per-minute basis without minimum call duration and no extra charges for setup or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's billing model keeps expenses under control and avoids scenarios where simple solutions entail big expenses.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do?
If your business is currently experiencing a security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to see how to get immediate help. Progent has a pool of veteran network security specialists who offer online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have planned in advance for an attack, the formal post-attack response procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of responding to a major security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Managing network security and preparedness for restoring vital data and functions following an attack requires an on-going process involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security engineers can assist your organization at all levels in your efforts to protect your information system, from security audits to designing a complete security program. Key areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Secure Environments
Any organization ought to have a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack plan is a set of precautions that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy defines procedures to assist IT staff to assess the losses caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the event, and revive network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to design security into your business processes. Progent can configure scanning utilities, define and implement a safe network architecture, and propose procedures and policies to enhance the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to help you to set up a firewall, design safe offsite access to e-mail and data, and configure an effective VPN.

If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services feature continual online network monitoring and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent offers skill in restoring networks and computers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have stopped working as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage caused by the assault, return your company to normal business operations, and recover information compromised owing to the breach. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a thorough failure analysis by examining event logs and using a variety of proven assessment tools. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to propose efficient ways to prevent or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and restoration services.

Work-from-Home Security Expertise
At-home employees typically use their personal computers and often work in a poorly secured physical environment. This multiplies their vulnerability to cyber attacks and requires careful configuration of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, extensive user training, and the development of policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran roster of telecommuter solutions consultants can assist you to plan, configure and manage a compliant security solution that protects vital information resources in networks that incorporate an at-home workforce.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management provide businesses of any size a versatile and cost-effective alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic information network. Besides optimizing the security and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your IT staff to concentrate on line-of-business projects and tasks that deliver the highest business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to manage the entire malware attack lifecycle including protection, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

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, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's unique needs and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
Progent has partnered with advanced backup/restore technology companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services automate and monitor your backup operations and enable transparent backup and rapid restoration of important files/folders, applications, images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps your business recover from data loss caused by hardware failures, natural calamities, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, user error, ill-intentioned insiders, or application glitches. Managed backup services in the ProSight Data Protection selection include ProSight Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent expert can help you to determine which of these managed backup 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 filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading information security vendors to deliver centralized control and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo MFA service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, when you log into a protected application and enter your password you are asked to confirm who you are via a unit that only you have and that is accessed using a different network channel. A broad range of devices can be utilized for this second form of authentication such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may register multiple validation devices. To learn more about Duo identity authentication services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for an at-home workforce.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting environment without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single 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 an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, find and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time spent searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository 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 a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you're making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need the instant you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants can provide unique support in vital areas of computer protection including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security auditing tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of automatic system tests to identify potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with scanning utilities and can help you to understand assessment results and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also offer web application testing and can conduct expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major industry security specifications such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances plus mobile devices. Find out more details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth consulting support for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out the details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as being expert in a wide range of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of any size expert support for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

CISM Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the basic skills and international benchmarks of performance that information technology security managers are expected to achieve. CISM provides executive management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM possess the background and knowledge to offer effective security management and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to help your enterprise in critical security disciplines such as information security governance, risk management, data security program management, and crisis response management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP status as a result of demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered within CISSP include security management practices, security design and models, connection control methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Find out the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation after thorough examination and extensive experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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CISA Security Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is an important qualification that signifies expertise in information system security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has candidates undergo an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit professional able to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit services, IT governance, network assets and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Consultants
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to plan, implement, and maintain IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and execute a business continuity plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially auditing your IT management design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for designing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Professional Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security experts. GIAC's goal is to assure that an accredited security consultant possesses the skills appropriate to provide support in critical areas of system, information, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the assistance of GIAC certified professionals for all of the security disciplines covered under GIAC certification programs including auditing security systems, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your organization is situated in Baton Rouge Louisiana and you're trying to find cybersecurity consulting, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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