Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate online help with network security problems, businesses in Baton Rouge Louisiana have access to world-class expertise from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support consultants are ready to offer efficient and low-cost help with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to support systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected network infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides online security support on a per-minute basis without minimum times and no extra charges for sign-up or after hours support. By charging per minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's billing structure keeps costs low and avoids situations where simple fixes turn into big bills.

We've Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
If you are now faced with a security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to find out how to get fast assistance. Progent maintains a pool of certified cybersecurity experts who offer remote and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future exploits.

For companies who have prepared carefully for a security breech, the step-by-step post-attack handling model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Managing computer protection as well as preparedness for restoring critical information and functions following an attack requires an on-going program that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified experts can help your organization at any level in your efforts to secure your IT network, from security audits to creating a complete security plan. Important technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Protected Networks
Every company ought to develop a thoroughly considered security plan that includes both proactive and reactive activity. The proactive plan is a collection of precautions that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines activities to assist IT staff to assess the losses caused by an attack, remediate the damage, document the experience, and revive business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your company operations. Progent can set up scanning software, create and build a secure computer infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to configure a firewall, design safe offsite connectivity to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient VPN.

If your company is interested in an economical way for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options include non-stop remote network monitoring and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in recovering systems and computers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have failed following a security breakdown. Progent can help determine the losses resulting from the attack, return your company to normal functions, and retrieve data lost owing to the assault. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a thorough forensic evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing other proven forensics techniques. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to suggest efficient ways to avoid or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management provide businesses of all sizes a flexible and affordable solution for assessing, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving IT network. Besides optimizing the protection and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services free up time for your IT staff to focus on line-of-business initiatives and activities that derive the highest business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight series 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. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including protection, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique needs and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for immediate attention. Progent can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud 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. For a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and allows fast restoration of vital files, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, 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 to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can provide world-class support to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can assist you to recover your business-critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of top information security vendors to deliver centralized management and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local 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 filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, see 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 organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration procedure. 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
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, find and protect data about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time spent trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need as soon as you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified consultants offer world-class consulting support in key areas of network security including:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive network scans to uncover possible security holes. Progent has broad experience with scanning tools and can assist you to understand assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web software testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major industry security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including stationary wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Find out the details about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class consulting services for Cisco's complete range of protection and VPN products including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn more details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a broad array of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes expert engineering services for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

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

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
CISM defines the core competencies and international benchmarks of performance that information technology security professionals are required to master. It provides business management the confidence that consultants who have earned their certification have the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security administration and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to assist your enterprise in vital security disciplines including data protection governance, vulnerability assessment, data protection program control, and crisis response management.

Learn the details concerning Progent's CISM Security Consulting Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification through verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute 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 procedures, security architecture and test systems, connection control systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Get additional information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation following rigorous examination and significant hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected Network Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the services 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 expert to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, define effective configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

Learn more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that indicates mastery in information system security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security engineer able to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology enforcement, systems and architecture planned useful life, information technology service delivery, protecting data resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to design, implement, and support IS controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a business continuity plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially auditing your IT management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for defining company-wide security policies.

Find out additional details about Progent's CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Services.

GIAC Professional Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of computer security engineers. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited professional possesses the skills appropriate to deliver services in important categories of network, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions around the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the support of certified consultants for any of the security services addressed within GIAC certification programs including auditing security systems, incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your business is located in Baton Rouge Louisiana and you want cybersecurity help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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