Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote assistance with data security issues, businesses in Bellevue Washington can find expert support from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service staff is available to offer efficient and low-cost help with security issues that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's security consultants are certified to support systems based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad array of consulting services addresses firewall technology, email security, protected system architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security credentials including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and CISSP.

Progent offers remote security support services on a per-minute model without minimum minutes and without extra fees for sign-up or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and avoids scenarios where simple fixes entail major expenses.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
In case your business is now experiencing a security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Network Help to learn how to get immediate assistance. Progent has a pool of veteran network security specialists who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity posture to guard against future attacks.

For organizations who have planned carefully for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of handling a major security penetration.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Managing data protection plus staying ready for restoring critical data and systems following an attack demands a continual effort involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified professionals can help your organization at whatever level in your attempt to safeguard your IT network, from security assessments to creating a complete security plan. Key technologies covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Attacks.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Any business ought to develop a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that works to minimize security gaps. The post-attack plan defines procedures to assist security staff to evaluate the losses resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the event, and revive business activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to build security into your company operations. Progent can install auditing utilities, define and execute a safe IT infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to enhance the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy secure online and mobile connectivity to email and information, and configure an effective VPN.

If you are looking for an affordable option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services feature continual remote system tracking and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud hosted resources and that comply with government data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in restoring networks and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have stopped working as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to assess the damage resulting from the assault, restore ordinary business operations, and recover data lost as a result of the assault. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a comprehensive failure analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security problems reduces your downtime and permits Progent to suggest efficient measures to avoid or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent can provide the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an information system damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management offer organizations of any size a versatile and affordable alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT network. Besides maximizing the security and reliability of your IT network, Progent's patch management services free up time for your in-house IT team to concentrate on line-of-business projects and tasks that derive the highest business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's patch management services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of network monitoring and management 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. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to automate the entire threat lifecycle including blocking, identification, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver affordable in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's specific needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and allows rapid recovery of vital files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can provide world-class support to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of top information security vendors to provide web-based control and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS 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 locked into one 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 protect data about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save up to 50% of time wasted trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need the instant you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran engineers offer world-class specialized help in vital facets of IT security such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with security evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic system scans to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with scanning utilities and can help your company to analyze assessment reports and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web software validation and can conduct expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major worldwide security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Get additional information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth technical services for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and IS routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Get more details about Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and VPN Solutions
In addition to supporting a wide range of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes expert support for security products from other important firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Corp Help

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
CISM defines the basic competencies and worldwide standards of performance that IT security professionals are expected to master. CISM provides business management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their accreditation have the background and skill to offer effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified expert to help your enterprise in key security areas such as information security governance, risk management, data security process control, and crisis handling management.

Find out additional information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise.

CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through verified experience, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and models, access permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn additional information about Progent's CISSP Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification after rigorous testing and substantial experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive knowledge of access management systems and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.

Get the details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure System Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned 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 cybersecurity consultant to assist your enterprise to utilize 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 include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, define effective design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

Find out more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a recognized qualification that represents mastery in network security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo an extensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security engineer trained to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit process, information technology enforcement, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, IT support, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity preparedness.

Get the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services.

CRISC IT Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and execute a business continuity strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially evaluating your IT management design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing company-wide security policies.

Read more details concerning Progent's CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Services.

Global Information Assurance Certification Support Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security experts. GIAC's goal is to ensure that an accredited security consultant has the skills needed to deliver services in vital categories of system, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the help of certified consultants for all of the network security services addressed within GIAC accreditation programs such as assessing perimeters, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

Find out additional details about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Depend on Progent for Network Security Support
If your business is located in Bellevue Washington and you're looking for cybersecurity engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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