Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote help with computer security issues, businesses in Birmingham United Kingdom have access to expert support from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are available to offer effective and affordable help with security problems that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to provide help for systems based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services covers firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure network infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the world's top security certifications including GIAC and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent offers online security support services on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum times and without additional charges for setup or off-hour service. By billing by the minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where simple fixes result in big expenses.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your business is now fighting a network security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Support to see how to receive fast aid. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned network security specialists who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future attacks.

For businesses who have prepared carefully for a security breech, the step-by-step post-attack handling procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of responding to a major security penetration.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating computer security plus preparation for recovering critical data and functions after a security breach requires a continual effort that entails a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified security engineers can support your business at all levels in your efforts to safeguard your information system, from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security plan. Key areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Based Attacks.

Designing and Building Secure Environments
Any company should develop a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive activity. The pre-attack plan is a set of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy defines activities to help IT staff to evaluate the damage resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, document the experience, and restore business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your business processes. Progent can install scanning software, define and build a safe network architecture, and propose processes and policies to maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected offsite access to e-mail and information, and install an efficient VPN.

If you are interested in an affordable way for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services include non-stop remote server monitoring and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based resources and that comply with government and industry security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has expertise in recovering networks and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working following a security attack. Progent can show you how to assess the losses caused by the attack, return your company to normal functions, and recover information compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a thorough failure evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing other advanced assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to suggest efficient strategies to prevent or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an environment victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and restoration services.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to work its way through a network. For this reason, ransomware attacks are commonly unleashed on weekends and at night, when support personnel are likely to take longer to recognize a break-in and are least able to organize a rapid and forceful response. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to achieve inside a victim's network, the more time it takes to restore core operations and damaged files and the more data can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to help organizations to carry out the time-critical first steps in mitigating a ransomware assault by stopping the bleeding. Progent's online ransomware engineers can assist you to locate and quarantine breached devices and guard clean assets from being compromised. If your network has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Work-from-Home Security Expertise
At-home employees typically utilize their personal devices and usually operate in a poorly secured physical environment. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to cyber attacks and requires judicious deployment of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive user training, and the development of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's veteran roster of Work-from-home support consultants can help you to plan, configure and maintain an effective cybersecurity solution that guards critical information resources in environments that include an at-home workforce.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management provide businesses of any size a flexible and cost-effective solution for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving IT system. Besides maximizing the protection and reliability of your computer network, Progent's patch management services permit your IT staff to concentrate on more strategic projects and activities that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Find out more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is designed 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. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the entire malware attack progression including protection, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent can also assist you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as 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 unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
Progent has partnered with leading backup technology companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS products automate and monitor your backup operations and allow non-disruptive backup and fast restoration of critical files, applications, images, plus VMs. ProSight DPS helps your business avoid data loss resulting from hardware failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, human mistakes, ill-intentioned insiders, or application glitches. Managed backup services in the ProSight DPS selection include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent service representative can assist you to identify which of these fully managed services are best suited for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA managed services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured application and enter your password you are asked to verify who you are on a unit that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A broad selection of devices can be used as this second means of authentication including a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may register multiple verification devices. To find out more about Duo two-factor identity validation services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines 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 high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting environment without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains and warranties. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time thrown away trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you're planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need when you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified engineers offer world-class expertise in vital facets of IT security such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of comprehensive system scans to reveal potential security holes. Progent has broad skills with testing tools and can help you to understand assessment results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web application testing and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major industry security specifications including FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Find out more information about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class technical support for Cisco's entire range of protection and VPN technologies including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn more information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
In addition to being expert in a wide range of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes expert engineering services for solutions from other popular firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

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

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
CISM defines the core competencies and worldwide standards of service that information security professionals are required to master. It provides executive management the confidence that those who have been awarded their CISM have the experience and skill to provide efficient security management and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM consultant to assist your enterprise in vital security disciplines such as information protection governance, vulnerability management, data security program control, and incident response support.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and models, access permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP status after rigorous examination and significant experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned 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 techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

Find out the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a recognized qualification that indicates mastery in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer able to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit process, IT enforcement, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, IT service delivery, protecting information assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and support IS controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially assessing your IS control mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for defining company-wide security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited professional possesses the knowledge necessary to provide services in important areas of system, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions around the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of certified consultants for all of the network security services addressed under GIAC accreditation programs including assessing IT infrastructure, incident response, traffic analysis, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Help
If your organization is situated in Birmingham United Kingdom and you need network security consulting, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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