Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate online help with data security problems, companies in Baton Rouge Louisiana can find expert troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is available to provide fast and low-cost assistance with security problems that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to provide help for environments based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services covers firewall configuration, email security, protected system architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides online security support services on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and no extra fees for setup or off-hour support. By charging per minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where simple fixes turn into major bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do?
In case your network is currently faced with a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Network Help to learn how to get immediate help. Progent maintains a pool of certified network security experts who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future exploits.

For businesses who have planned beforehand for being hacked, the step-by-step incident response model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Managing data protection as well as preparedness for recovering vital data and systems following a security breach requires an on-going effort involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified professionals can help your business at whatever level in your attempt to protect your IT system, from security assessments to designing a complete security plan. Important areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from Email-Based Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Secure Environments
Any business ought to have a carefully thought out security plan that includes both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines procedures to help IT personnel to inventory the losses caused by a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and revive network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can install auditing software, create and build a safe computer infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will optimize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, design safe offsite connectivity to e-mail and information, and configure an effective VPN.

If your company is looking for an affordable option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options include non-stop online network monitoring and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud resources and that are compliant with government security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in recovering systems and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have ceased to function as a result of a security penetration. Progent can help determine the damage caused by the assault, return your company to ordinary business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the breach. Progent's security engineers can also manage a thorough failure analysis by examining activity logs and using other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to recommend efficient strategies to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to manage the entire threat lifecycle including filtering, identification, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid restoration of vital files, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to recover your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading information security vendors to deliver centralized control and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs 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 apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting solution without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, find and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time wasted trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require as soon as you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security engineers can provide world-class consulting support in vital facets of network security such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive system scans to uncover possible security holes. Progent has broad experience with these tools and can help you to analyze assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's security engineers also offer web software validation and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major industry security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Read more details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network products such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst switches. Learn additional information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and VPN Technologies
In addition to supporting a wide array of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size top-level consulting for products from other important firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Help

CISM Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the basic skills and worldwide standards of performance that information technology security managers are required to achieve. It offers business management the assurance that those who have earned their accreditation have the experience and knowledge to offer efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to help your enterprise in vital security disciplines such as information protection governance, risk management, information protection program management, and incident response support.

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CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in 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. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and test systems, access permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out more information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough testing and significant hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP security experts have in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Learn additional details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your organization to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

Find out more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The CISA credential is a prestigious achievement that represents mastery in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass an extensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer trained to help companies in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology administration, network assets and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise.

CRISC IT Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management expertise is a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially assessing your IS management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM experts for defining security policies and procedures.

Find out more details about Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Expertise.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of computer security professionals. GIAC's goal is to assure that an accredited professional possesses the skills appropriate to provide support in critical categories of network, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of certified professionals for all of the network security capabilities covered within GIAC certification programs including assessing networks, incident handling, traffic analysis, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Help
If your organization is located in Baton Rouge Louisiana and you need computer security consulting, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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