Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast online help with computer security issues, businesses in Birmingham Alabama can find world-class expertise by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to provide effective and economical assistance with security problems that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's security consultants are premier to support systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email security, protected network infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support team has earned the world's most advanced security certifications including Global Information Assurance Certification and CISSP.

Progent provides remote security support on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and no additional charges for sign-up or after hours service. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's pricing model keeps costs low and eliminates scenarios where quick fixes result in major bills.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
If you are now experiencing a security emergency, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Technical Support to find out how to receive immediate assistance. Progent maintains a team of certified network security specialists who can provide online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future exploits.

For companies who have prepared in advance for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security attack.

Overview of Security Support Services
Coordinating network protection plus planning for recovering critical information and systems after an attack demands a continual program involving an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified security consultants can support your organization at any level in your efforts to secure your information system, ranging from security audits to creating a complete security strategy. Some areas covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Attacks.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Any business ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive steps. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that works to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to help IT personnel to inventory the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive network functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning software, create and implement a safe IT architecture, and recommend processes and policies to enhance the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy protected online and mobile connectivity to email and data, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an economical way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options feature continual online system monitoring and fast response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud resources and that are compliant with regulatory security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in recovering systems and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have failed as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can help evaluate the damage resulting from the breach, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve data compromised owing to the event. Progent's security specialists can also manage a comprehensive forensic analysis by going over activity logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest efficient strategies to avoid or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild an environment compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses 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 Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the complete malware attack progression including protection, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device management, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that require immediate action. Progent can also help your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and allows rapid recovery of critical files, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted due to hardware breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide advanced support to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of top data security vendors to deliver centralized 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 appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's 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 moved immediately to a different hardware solution without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, update, retrieve and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time wasted looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need when you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer unique consulting support in key areas of IT security including:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with security auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a variety of comprehensive network scans to identify potential security problems. Progent has extensive skills with these utilities and can assist your company to understand assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also offer web software testing and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important industry security specifications such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances plus mobile devices. Read more details concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class technical services for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Learn more information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Support.

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

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

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the core skills and worldwide standards of service that information technology security professionals are expected to master. CISM provides executive management the assurance that those who have been awarded their certification have the experience and knowledge to provide effective security management and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to assist your enterprise in critical security areas such as information security governance, vulnerability management, data protection process management, and incident handling management.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and models, access permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification after rigorous examination and extensive experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

Learn additional information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity 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 security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a prestigious qualification that signifies expertise in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that consultants pass an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security audit professional trained to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, information technology governance, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology service delivery, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Learn more information about Progent's CISA Professional Services.

CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and maintain IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk management expertise is complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively evaluating your IT management design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills needed to provide support in important areas of network, information, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the assistance of certified professionals for any of the network security disciplines covered under GIAC certification topics including auditing perimeters, incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Support
If your organization is situated in Birmingham Alabama and you need computer security consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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