Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate online help with data security issues, companies in Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais can find world-class support from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support consultants are ready to offer effective and low-cost assistance with security issues that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services encompasses firewall configuration, email security, secure system architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has earned the world's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers remote security support on a per-minute model with no minimum minutes and without additional charges for setup or after hours support. By billing per minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's billing model keeps costs under control and avoids situations where simple fixes turn into major charges.

We've Been Attacked: What Should We Do?
If your business is now faced with a security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Network Help to learn how to receive immediate aid. Progent maintains a pool of veteran cybersecurity specialists who can provide online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have planned in advance for a security breech, the formal incident response model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Coordinating data security and staying ready for restoring vital data and systems following a security breach requires a continual effort involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's security experts can support your organization at any level in your attempt to secure your IT system, from security audits to designing a comprehensive security program. Some technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Every company ought to develop a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of precautions that works to reduce security gaps. The reactive plan defines activities to help IT personnel to assess the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your business processes. Progent can configure scanning software, define and execute a secure IT architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will maximize the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy protected remote connectivity to email and data, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If you are looking for an affordable option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages feature non-stop online network monitoring and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud hosted resources and that comply with government and industry security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 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.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in restoring systems and devices that have been compromised, are suspect, or have stopped working as a result of a security attack. Progent can help assess the damage resulting from the attack, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve data compromised owing to the event. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by examining event logs and using other proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to recommend effective ways to prevent or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to rebuild an information system victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware removal and recovery services.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management offer businesses of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective alternative for assessing, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving IT network. In addition to optimizing the protection and reliability of your computer network, Progent's patch management services allow your in-house IT staff to concentrate on line-of-business initiatives and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations 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: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates next generation behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to address the complete malware attack progression including blocking, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific needs and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent can also assist you to install and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid recovery of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to component breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your critical data. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud 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 incorporates the technology of leading information security vendors to deliver web-based control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, visit 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 apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware solution without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time wasted searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require as soon as you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's veteran consultants can provide unique specialized help in vital areas of network protection including:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk auditing utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive network scans to identify possible security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with testing utilities and can assist you to understand audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web software validation and can perform thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key worldwide security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless equipment as well as portable handsets. Get more details concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn additional details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as supporting a broad range of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes top-level support for security products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the fundamental competencies and worldwide standards of service that IT security managers are required to master. It offers executive management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM have the background and skill to provide efficient security management and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to help your enterprise in vital security disciplines including information security governance, vulnerability assessment, information security process control, and incident response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation as a result of verified experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security design and test systems, connection control systems, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation after rigorous testing and extensive hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your business with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the services associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your organization to utilize modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical security 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 Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious achievement that indicates mastery in network security auditing. 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 professional trained to assist companies in the fields of IS audit process, IT enforcement, network assets and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Risk Management Consultants
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively assessing your IT management design and also with the services of Progent's CISM experts for defining security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited professional possesses the knowledge appropriate to deliver services in important areas of system, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and institutions throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the network security disciplines covered within GIAC certification topics including assessing security systems, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your company is located in Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais and you're trying to find cybersecurity expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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