Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate remote help with computer security problems, companies in Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais can find expert support by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support consultants are ready to offer efficient and low-cost assistance with security problems that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services encompasses firewall expertise, email security, protected system infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the world's most advanced security accreditations including CISM and ISSAP.

Progent offers remote security expertise on a per-minute model with no minimum minutes and without extra fees for setup or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's billing structure keeps costs low and eliminates situations where simple fixes entail major bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do?
In case your network is now experiencing a network security emergency, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Support to see how to receive immediate assistance. Progent has a pool of veteran cybersecurity experts who offer online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity posture to protect against future exploits.

For organizations who have planned carefully for an attack, the formal incident handling model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Coordinating computer security and preparation for restoring critical information and functions following an attack requires an on-going effort that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified security professionals can help your organization at whatever level in your attempt to protect your IT system, from security assessments to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Some areas covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Every business ought to develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and reactive elements. The pre-attack plan is a set of precautions that works to minimize security gaps. The reactive strategy defines procedures to assist IT staff to inventory the damage caused by a breach, remediate the damage, document the experience, and restore network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning utilities, create and execute a safe computer architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy protected online and mobile access to e-mail and information, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options feature continual online network monitoring and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with regulatory security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring systems and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have ceased to function following a security breach. Progent can show you how to assess the damage resulting from the breach, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve data compromised owing to the attack. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a comprehensive failure analysis by going over event logs and using a variety of advanced assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to propose effective strategies to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct a network compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Work-from-Home Security Consulting
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members commonly utilize their personal computing devices and often operate in a poorly secured physical space. This situation increases their vulnerability to cyber threats and requires judicious configuration of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, extensive user education, and the development of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned roster of telecommuter solutions consultants can help your business to plan, configure and manage a compliant cybersecurity solution that guards vital information resources in networks that include remote workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer businesses of any size a versatile and cost-effective alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving information system. In addition to maximizing the protection and functionality of your computer environment, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT team to focus on more strategic projects and activities that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by legacy signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to address the complete malware attack lifecycle including protection, detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device management, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
Progent has partnered with leading backup/restore technology vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a portfolio of management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services manage and track your data backup operations and enable transparent backup and fast recovery of vital files, apps, system images, and VMs. ProSight DPS helps your business protect against data loss resulting from equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, malware such as ransomware, human error, ill-intentioned employees, or application bugs. Managed services in the ProSight DPS portfolio include ProSight Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Backup, ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent expert can assist you to identify which of these managed services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

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 uses the technology of top information security vendors to provide web-based management and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email 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 layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local 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 track and safeguard internal email that stays within your corporate firewall. For more details, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo authentication service plans utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a secured online account and give your password you are asked to verify your identity on a device that only you have and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad selection of out-of-band devices can be used for this second form of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register several validation devices. For details about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for teleworkers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting solution without a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Find out more 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 makes it easy to create, update, find and protect information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or domains and warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network 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 an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require as soon as you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer unique specialized help in vital areas of IT security including:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security auditing tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a set of comprehensive network scans to identify potential security problems. Progent has broad skills with testing tools and can help your company to analyze audit results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web software testing and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major global security specifications such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances as well as mobile devices. Find out more details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver in-depth technical support for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Get more details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as supporting a broad range of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size top-level engineering services for products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the fundamental skills and international benchmarks of service that computer security professionals are required to achieve. It offers business management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their accreditation possess the background and knowledge to offer effective security administration and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM consultant to help your organization in key security areas including information security governance, risk management, information protection process management, and crisis handling management.

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CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered within CISSP include security administration practices, security design and test systems, access permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification as a result of rigorous examination and extensive hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive understanding of access control systems and methodologies, phone system and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned 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 can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your organization to utilize modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define efficient design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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CISA Security Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a recognized qualification that represents mastery in information system security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass a comprehensive test overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security engineer able to assist companies in the fields of IS audit process, information technology enforcement, systems and architecture planned useful life, information technology service delivery, safeguarding data assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and execute a workplace continuity strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively evaluating your IT control design and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Support Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of computer security professionals. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified security consultant has the knowledge necessary to deliver support in key categories of system, data, and application software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified professionals for any of the security services covered under GIAC accreditation programs including auditing perimeters, incident response, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Support
If your business is located in Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais and you need network security consulting, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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