Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online help with network security problems, businesses in Birmingham United Kingdom have access to world-class support from Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to provide efficient and low-cost help with security problems that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's security engineers are certified to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services addresses firewall technology, email security, secure system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the industry's top security credentials including GIAC and ISSAP.

Progent offers remote security assistance on a per-minute model with no minimum minutes and no extra charges for setup or off-hour service. By billing per minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where simple solutions turn into major expenses.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your network is now fighting a security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to find out how to get immediate aid. Progent maintains a team of certified network security specialists who can provide remote and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For businesses that have planned in advance for a security breech, the step-by-step incident response model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a serious security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Coordinating network security as well as planning for restoring critical information and functions following an attack demands a continual effort involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security engineers can help your business at any level in your attempt to secure your IT network, from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Key technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Threats.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Every business should have a carefully considered security strategy that includes both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines procedures to help security personnel to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive business activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your business processes. Progent can set up scanning software, define and implement a safe computer architecture, and recommend processes and policies to maximize the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design secure online and mobile connectivity to email and information, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an economical option for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages include automated online system tracking and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in restoring systems and computers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have failed as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to assess the losses caused by the breach, restore normal business operations, and recover information lost owing to the assault. Progent's certified specialists can also oversee a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to propose efficient ways to avoid or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct an IT network victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management provide businesses of any size a versatile and affordable solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking updates to your ever-evolving IT system. Besides optimizing the protection and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's patch management services permit your IT team to focus on more strategic initiatives and activities that derive the highest business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of outsourced network 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. Managed services offered by 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) service that utilizes next generation behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the entire malware attack progression including protection, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's unique needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require urgent action. Progent can also assist your company to install and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and enables fast restoration of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted due to component breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to restore your business-critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of leading information security vendors to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight 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 secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware environment without a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting provider. 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 allows you to create, update, find and safeguard data related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to half of time thrown away trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need the instant you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified engineers offer unique specialized help in key facets of network protection including:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive network tests to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with scanning tools and can help your company to understand audit results and react appropriately. Progent's security engineers also offer web software testing and can perform expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major global security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Get additional details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class technical support for Cisco's complete range of security and VPN technologies including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Learn more details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
As well as supporting a broad range of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes advanced engineering services for security products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
CISM defines the fundamental competencies and international benchmarks of performance that information security managers are expected to achieve. It provides executive management the assurance that those who have been awarded their accreditation possess the background and skill to offer efficient security administration and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM expert to help your organization in critical security disciplines such as data protection governance, vulnerability assessment, information protection process management, and crisis response management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security design and test systems, access control systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Get more information about Progent's CISSP Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification following rigorous examination and substantial hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all critical system functions, define effective configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The CISA credential is an important qualification that indicates expertise in IS security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer able to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit services, IT administration, network assets and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and maintain IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially evaluating your IS control mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM experts for defining security policies.

Learn more information about Progent's CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Expertise.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security engineers. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge needed to provide services in important areas of system, information, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions throughout the world including U.S. NSA. Progent offers the expertise of certified security engineers for any of the network security capabilities addressed within GIAC accreditation programs including assessing perimeters, incident response, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your business is located in Birmingham United Kingdom and you're looking for cybersecurity consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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