Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote assistance with network security problems, companies in Birmingham United Kingdom can find world-class support by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote service staff is available to offer efficient and affordable assistance with security issues that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's security engineers are certified to support systems based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of consulting services covers firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the industry's top security credentials including GIAC and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides remote security help on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum call duration and no additional fees for setup or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by delivering world-class help, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses low and avoids scenarios where simple fixes turn into major charges.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
In case your network is now experiencing a security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Support to find out how to get immediate aid. Progent has a team of certified cybersecurity specialists who offer online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have planned beforehand for an attack, the step-by-step incident response procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Managing data security and planning for recovering critical information and functions after an attack demands a continual process involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security engineers can help your business at any level in your attempt to secure your information network, from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security plan. Key technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Every business ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive elements. The proactive plan is a set of steps that works to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan specifies activities to assist IT staff to assess the losses caused by an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and restore business activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to build security into your company processes. Progent can install auditing utilities, create and build a secure IT architecture, and propose procedures and policies that will optimize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected remote connectivity to e-mail and data, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an economical way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services include automated online server tracking and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in restoring systems and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working following a security penetration. Progent can help evaluate the damage caused by the attack, return your company to normal functions, and retrieve data lost as a result of the event. Progent's security specialists can also perform a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest effective ways to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct an information system damaged by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver economical in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent can also assist you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and enables rapid recovery of critical files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the infrastructure of top information security companies to provide web-based management and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

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 set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting solution without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single 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 a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect information related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require as soon as you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security engineers can provide world-class specialized help in vital facets of network security including:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive network scans to uncover possible security problems. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar utilities and can assist your company to understand assessment reports and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web application testing and can conduct expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key industry security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Learn additional information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical support for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn more details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a broad range of protection solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes advanced consulting for technologies from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

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

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager defines the core competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that IT security managers are expected to achieve. CISM provides executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their accreditation have the background and knowledge to offer efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM expert to assist your organization in key security areas including data protection governance, risk management, data security process control, and incident handling management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include security administration practices, security design and test systems, access permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out more information about Progent's CISSP Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation following thorough testing and significant experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your business 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 large organizations with the services expected of 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 cybersecurity expert to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Expertise
The CISA accreditation is an important qualification that signifies mastery in network security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant able to help companies in the fields of information systems audit services, IT administration, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT support, safeguarding information resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and maintain IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially auditing your IT control design and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited security consultant has the knowledge needed to deliver support in important categories of system, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and government organizations around the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the expertise of certified security engineers for any of the security services covered under GIAC certification programs such as assessing networks, incident response, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Support
If your company is located in Birmingham United Kingdom and you need cybersecurity consulting, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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