Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast online assistance with data security issues, companies in Baton Rouge Louisiana can find expert support by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is available to provide effective and low-cost help with security issues that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to provide help for environments based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services encompasses firewall technology, email security, secure network infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has earned the industry's top security credentials including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and CISSP.

Progent provides remote security support services on a by-the-minute model with no minimum minutes and no additional fees for sign-up or after hours service. By charging per minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses low and avoids scenarios where quick solutions turn into major charges.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do?
If your network is currently fighting a security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Technical Support to learn how to receive fast aid. Progent maintains a team of certified network security experts who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to guard against future attacks.

For businesses who have prepared in advance for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack response model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating computer security plus preparedness for recovering vital information and systems following an attack requires a continual effort involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's security consultants can support your business at any level in your efforts to secure your information system, ranging from security assessments to designing a complete security program. Important technologies covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Any company ought to develop a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both proactive and reactive activity. The proactive strategy is a set of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines activities to assist security personnel to inventory the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the event, and restore business functions as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your company operations. Progent can set up scanning software, create and implement a safe IT architecture, and propose processes and policies that will optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design protected offsite access to e-mail and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If you are interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services include automated remote system monitoring and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based resources and that comply with government data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering systems and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have failed as a result of a security breach. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage caused by the assault, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve data lost as a result of the event. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a comprehensive forensic analysis by going over activity logs and utilizing other proven forensics techniques. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to recommend efficient strategies to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild a network compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management provide businesses of any size a flexible and cost-effective solution for assessing, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving IT network. In addition to maximizing the security and functionality of your computer network, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your IT staff to concentrate on line-of-business initiatives and activities that deliver maximum business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire malware attack progression including protection, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and allows rapid restoration of vital data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted due to hardware breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide world-class support to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to restore your critical information. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud 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 and email encryption service that uses the technology of top data security companies to deliver web-based management and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware environment without a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting provider. Find out more details 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, find and safeguard data about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to 50% of time spent trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need as soon as you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers can provide unique expertise in key areas of IT security including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a set of comprehensive system tests to uncover potential security holes. Progent has broad experience with testing utilities and can assist your company to analyze assessment results and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also can perform web application validation and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major industry security specifications including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Learn more information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's complete range of protection and VPN solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Get more details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a wide range of network security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes expert consulting for technologies from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Consulting
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
CISM defines the fundamental competencies and worldwide standards of performance that information technology security professionals are expected to achieve. It offers business management the confidence that those who have earned their certification have the background and skill to provide effective security management and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to assist your enterprise in vital security disciplines including information protection governance, vulnerability assessment, data security process control, and crisis response management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP certification as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and models, access control methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet 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 after thorough testing and substantial experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 expert to help your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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CISA Security Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important achievement that represents expertise in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has consultants pass an extensive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit professional able to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit services, IT administration, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and support IS controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to create and execute a workplace continuity plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively auditing your IS management design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Professional Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security professionals. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge needed to provide services in vital categories of network, information, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the expertise of certified security engineers for all of the network security disciplines covered within GIAC certification topics including assessing networks, security incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Help
If your organization is located in Baton Rouge Louisiana and you want computer security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the state of Louisiana.