Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote help with network security issues, companies in Bellevue Washington can find world-class support by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote support staff is ready to provide effective and low-cost help with security crises that threaten the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services covers firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure network architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's top security certifications including GIAC and CISSP.

Progent provides online security expertise on a per-minute model with no minimum times and no additional fees for setup or off-hour service. By billing per minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses low and avoids situations where simple fixes entail major charges.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
If your business is currently experiencing a network security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Online Network Support to find out how to receive fast assistance. Progent has a team of certified network security experts who can provide online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies that have prepared carefully for an attack, the formal post-attack response model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of handling a serious security penetration.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Coordinating network protection plus preparation for recovering critical information and functions after an attack demands a continual effort that entails an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified consultants can help your organization at any level in your efforts to guard your information system, from security assessments to creating a complete security plan. Key technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Protected Networks
Any company should have a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both proactive and reactive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The reactive plan specifies activities to help IT staff to evaluate the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and revive business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to build security into your company processes. Progent can install scanning utilities, define and execute a safe IT architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will enhance the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy secure remote connectivity to e-mail and data, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an affordable way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages feature automated online network tracking and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering systems and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have ceased to function because of a security attack. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage resulting from the attack, restore normal functions, and retrieve data lost owing to the attack. Progent's certified specialists can also oversee a comprehensive forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to recommend efficient ways to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore a network victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Expertise
Work-from-Home staff members commonly use their own computers and usually operate in a poorly secured physical space. This increases their susceptibility to malware threats and calls for careful configuration of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive user education, and the development of policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned team of telecommuter support consultants can help you to plan, deploy and maintain an effective cybersecurity solution that protects critical information resources in environments that include an at-home workforce.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management provide businesses of any size a versatile and affordable alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving IT system. Besides maximizing the security and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your IT staff to focus on more strategic projects and tasks that deliver 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 Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets 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 (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to address the complete malware attack lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific requirements 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 enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup/restore product vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a portfolio of management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS products manage and track your data backup operations and allow transparent backup and fast restoration of vital files, applications, images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you protect against data loss resulting from hardware failures, natural disasters, fire, malware like ransomware, user error, ill-intentioned employees, or software bugs. Managed services available in the ProSight ProSight Data Protection portfolio include ProSight Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can assist you to determine which of these fully managed backup services are most appropriate for your network.

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 uses the infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver centralized control and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo authentication managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a secured application and give your password you are asked to verify who you are on a unit that only you possess and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad selection of devices can be utilized as this second form of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate several validation devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, update, retrieve and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time wasted trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location 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 a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you�re making improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's veteran engineers can provide unique consulting support in key areas of network protection including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic network scans to uncover possible security problems. Progent has broad skills with these and similar utilities and can assist you to analyze assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web application testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key worldwide security specifications including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile devices. Find out more details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network products including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Read more details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as being expert in a wide array of protection solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes expert support for technologies from other major firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic competencies and worldwide standards of service that IT security professionals are required to master. CISM provides business management the confidence that those who have earned their certification possess the experience and knowledge to provide effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to assist your organization in vital security areas including information protection governance, vulnerability management, information protection program control, and incident response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered within CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and test systems, access control methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts have earned ISSAP certification following rigorous examination and extensive experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises 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 skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, develop effective design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious qualification that represents mastery in IS security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has candidates pass an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant able to help companies in the fields of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively auditing your IT management design and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to assure that an accredited security consultant possesses the skills necessary to provide support in key areas of system, data, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations around the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the help of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the security services covered under GIAC certification topics such as auditing perimeters, incident handling, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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

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