Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote assistance with network security issues, businesses in Birmingham Alabama can find world-class support by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is ready to offer efficient and low-cost assistance with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to provide help for environments based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide array of consulting services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure system architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the industry's top security credentials including Certified Information Security Manager and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides remote security assistance on a by-the-minute basis without minimum minutes and without additional fees for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs low and avoids situations where quick solutions entail big charges.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
If you are now fighting a security emergency, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Help to find out how to get immediate aid. Progent has a team of certified network security specialists who can provide online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future attacks.

For businesses that have prepared beforehand for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security penetration.

Overview of Security Support Services
Managing network protection plus preparation for recovering vital information and systems following a security breach requires an on-going program involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's security experts can support your business at whatever level in your attempt to safeguard your information network, ranging from security audits to creating a complete security strategy. Important areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Based Attacks.

Designing and Building Secure Environments
Any business ought to develop a thoroughly considered security plan that includes both proactive and responsive activity. The pre-attack plan is a set of precautions that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines activities to assist security staff to evaluate the losses resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and restore network activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your company processes. Progent can install scanning software, define and execute a safe computer architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design safe online and mobile access to email and data, and configure an effective VPN.

If your company is interested in an economical option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages include non-stop remote server tracking and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud resources and that comply with government data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in restoring systems and servers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have stopped working following a security breach. Progent can help evaluate the damage resulting from the breach, restore normal functions, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the assault. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough failure evaluation by examining activity logs and using a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest efficient ways to prevent or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an IT network compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to manage the complete malware attack progression including filtering, identification, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent can also help you to set up and verify a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables fast recovery of vital data, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide advanced support to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading information security vendors to deliver centralized control and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting environment without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time spent searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network like recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require as soon as you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified engineers offer world-class expertise in key areas of IT security such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with security auditing utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a variety of automatic network scans to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with testing utilities and can assist you to analyze assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web software validation and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major industry security standards including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless appliances plus portable handsets. Learn more details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth technical support for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Learn additional information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and VPN Solutions
In addition to being expert in a wide array of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size top-level consulting for technologies from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Help

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the fundamental competencies and international benchmarks of performance that IT security managers are expected to master. CISM offers business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM possess the background and skill to offer effective security administration and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM support professional to help your organization in key security areas including information security governance, vulnerability management, information protection process control, and incident handling support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and test systems, connection permission systems, applications development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification as a result of thorough testing and significant hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP consultants have in-depth knowledge of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your company 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 shown 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 can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic security models that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

Learn more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting.

CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a prestigious qualification that indicates mastery in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to assist companies in the areas of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, network assets and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding data assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and execute a workplace continuity plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively auditing your IS management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for designing security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security engineers. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified professional has the skills appropriate to provide support in key categories of system, data, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the support of certified security engineers for any of the security services addressed under GIAC certification topics including assessing perimeters, security incident response, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Help
If your business is situated in Birmingham Alabama and you're trying to find network security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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