Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote assistance with network security problems, companies in Bellevue Washington can find expert support by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are available to offer efficient and affordable assistance with security problems that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's security engineers are certified to support environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services encompasses firewall configuration, email security, protected network architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the industry's top security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides online security support services on a per-minute model with no minimum call duration and no extra charges for setup or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where simple fixes turn into major bills.

We've Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your business is currently fighting a security emergency, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Help to see how to get fast aid. Progent maintains a pool of veteran cybersecurity specialists who offer online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For organizations that have planned carefully for being hacked, the step-by-step incident response procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Managing network security as well as preparation for recovering vital information and functions after a security breach requires a continual effort involving a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified professionals can support your organization at all levels in your efforts to safeguard your information system, from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security program. Some technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Every company ought to have a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both proactive and responsive elements. The proactive plan is a set of steps that helps to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan specifies procedures to assist IT staff to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the event, and revive business activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your business operations. Progent can configure scanning software, create and build a secure computer infrastructure, and propose processes and policies to enhance the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy safe offsite connectivity to email and information, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an economical option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services feature non-stop online server monitoring and quick response to emergencies.

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

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides expertise in recovering systems and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have stopped working following a security breakdown. Progent can help assess the losses caused by the breach, return your company to ordinary business operations, and retrieve information lost owing to the breach. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a comprehensive forensic analysis by examining event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security issues reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest effective measures to avoid or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an information system victimized by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of all sizes a versatile and affordable alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT network. In addition to maximizing the protection and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services allow your IT team to focus on line-of-business projects and activities that deliver maximum business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight series of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. 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 service that utilizes next generation behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to automate the entire malware attack lifecycle including protection, identification, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver economical in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and allows fast recovery of vital files, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can help you to restore your critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading information security vendors to provide centralized control and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside 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 organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, find and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time thrown away trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need as soon as you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants can provide unique expertise in key facets of network protection including:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with information risk evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a variety of automatic system tests to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with testing utilities and can help your company to analyze audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also can perform web software testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major worldwide security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Read the details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, protected broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Find out more details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to being expert in a wide range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size advanced engineering services for technologies from other major firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Support
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that computer security managers are expected to master. CISM offers business management the confidence that consultants who have earned their CISM have the experience and skill to offer effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to help your organization in critical security areas including data protection governance, vulnerability management, data protection program control, and incident response management.

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CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and test systems, access permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification after rigorous testing and substantial hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP security experts have in-depth understanding of access management systems and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Learn more details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected Network Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide large organizations with the services expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Expertise
The CISA credential is a prestigious achievement that represents expertise in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security professional trained to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, IT enforcement, systems and architecture lifecycle, IT support, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain IS controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and execute a business continuity strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially evaluating your IT control design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for defining company-wide security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security professionals. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified professional possesses the knowledge necessary to provide support in vital areas of system, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and institutions throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the security capabilities addressed within GIAC certification programs such as auditing perimeters, incident handling, traffic analysis, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your company is located in Bellevue Washington and you want computer security consulting, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Seattle Metro Area.