Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate remote assistance with network security issues, companies in Birmingham United Kingdom can find world-class expertise by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to offer fast and low-cost assistance with security problems that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide array of consulting services covers firewall configuration, email security, secure system design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's most advanced security accreditations including Global Information Assurance Certification and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent offers online security assistance on a per-minute model with no minimum times and no additional fees for sign-up or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's pricing model keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where quick fixes turn into major charges.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
If your network is currently experiencing a security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Technical Support to see how to receive immediate assistance. Progent maintains a team of seasoned cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations who have prepared beforehand for a security breech, the step-by-step incident response procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of responding to a major security penetration.

Overview of Security Expertise
Coordinating network security plus staying ready for recovering vital information and functions following an attack requires an on-going effort that entails an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified professionals can support your business at whatever level in your efforts to safeguard your information network, from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security plan. Some areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Networks
Any company ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both preventive and reactive activity. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to help IT staff to inventory the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and revive network functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to build security into your business operations. Progent can set up scanning utilities, create and implement a safe IT architecture, and propose procedures and policies to maximize the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy protected remote connectivity to email and data, and configure an effective VPN.

If your company is interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options include continual online system monitoring and immediate resolution of problems.

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

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in recovering systems and computers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have stopped working following a security breach. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the assault, restore ordinary functions, and recover information compromised owing to the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a thorough failure analysis by examining event logs and using a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to suggest efficient measures to prevent or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an information system damaged by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Work-from-Home Security Expertise
Work-from-Home staff members typically use their personal devices and usually work in a unsecured physical space. This increases their susceptibility to malware attacks and requires careful configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, thorough user education, and the creation of security policies based on best practices. Progent's seasoned roster of telecommuter solutions experts can assist your business to plan, implement and manage a compliant cybersecurity solution that guards critical information resources in networks that incorporate telecommuters.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of any size a flexible and affordable alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving IT network. Besides maximizing the protection and functionality of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services free up time for your in-house IT team to focus on line-of-business projects and activities that derive maximum business value from your information network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of network management outsourcing 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. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to manage the entire malware attack lifecycle including protection, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent can also assist your company to install and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) 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 unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
Progent has partnered with leading backup technology companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS products automate and monitor your backup operations and allow transparent backup and fast restoration of important files, applications, system images, plus VMs. ProSight DPS helps you recover from data loss resulting from equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, human error, malicious insiders, or application glitches. Managed backup services in the ProSight DPS product line include ProSight Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Total Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to identify which of these 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 technology of leading data security vendors to provide web-based management and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo MFA service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured online account and give your password you are asked to verify who you are via a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of devices can be utilized for this second means of authentication including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate multiple validation devices. For more information about Duo identity authentication services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for telecommuters.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect data related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time wasted searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you�re planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants can provide world-class support in vital facets of network security such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive network tests to uncover potential security holes. Progent has broad skills with testing utilities and can help you to understand assessment results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web application testing and can conduct expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important global security specifications such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Get additional details concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's entire range of security and VPN solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Read more details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
In addition to being expert in a broad array of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size advanced support for security products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Support
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager defines the fundamental skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that IT security professionals are expected to achieve. It offers executive management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their accreditation possess the experience and skill to provide effective security administration and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to help your organization in key security disciplines such as information security governance, risk management, information protection program control, and crisis response management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and test systems, access permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have earned ISSAP status following thorough examination and significant experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth knowledge of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your organization to follow modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical security solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

Learn more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting Services.

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important qualification that indicates mastery in IS security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has consultants pass an extensive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security consultant able to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit services, IT administration, systems and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and maintain IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and carry out a business continuity strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially auditing your IS management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security professionals. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver services in critical categories of network, information, and application security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and institutions around the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the expertise of certified professionals for all of the security services addressed within GIAC accreditation programs such as assessing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Support
If your company is situated in Birmingham United Kingdom and you need cybersecurity consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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