Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote assistance with network security problems, businesses in Boise, ID, can find expert expertise by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support consultants are ready to provide efficient and low-cost help with security issues that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's security engineers are premier to provide help for systems powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected system architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the industry's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor and CISSP.

Progent offers online security assistance on a by-the-minute basis without minimum minutes and without additional charges for sign-up or after hours service. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs low and avoids situations where quick fixes result in big charges.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Can We Do?
In case you are currently faced with a security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Network Help to find out how to receive fast help. Progent has a team of certified cybersecurity specialists who offer online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations who have prepared carefully for being hacked, the formal post-attack handling procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Coordinating network security as well as planning for recovering critical data and systems following an attack requires an on-going effort involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified experts can assist your business at all levels in your efforts to guard your information network, from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security program. Key technologies supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of Email-Borne Threats.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Any company ought to have a carefully considered security plan that includes both preventive and responsive steps. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to help IT personnel to evaluate the damage resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, document the experience, and restore network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your business operations. Progent can install scanning utilities, define and execute a safe network infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will optimize the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy safe remote connectivity to e-mail and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an economical option for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options include continual online server tracking and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud hosted resources and that comply with regulatory security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides expertise in recovering networks and devices that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed following a security attack. Progent can help determine the losses resulting from the breach, restore ordinary business operations, and recover data compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a comprehensive forensic analysis by examining activity logs and using a variety of proven assessment tools. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest efficient strategies to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an IT network victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to manage the entire malware attack lifecycle including blocking, detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver affordable in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted due to hardware breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images/, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can provide world-class support to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your business-critical data. Read 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 filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top data security companies to provide web-based management and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays within your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service 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 requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more 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, update, retrieve and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time wasted searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified security engineers can provide world-class support in key areas of IT security such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security auditing utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of comprehensive network tests to identify possible security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these utilities and can help you to understand audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web application validation and can conduct expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major worldwide security specifications such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances plus portable handsets. Read the details about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class technical support for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Read more details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
As well as supporting a broad array of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size top-level consulting for products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWALL Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Corp Help

CISM Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the core competencies and international standards of service that information technology security managers are expected to achieve. It provides business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their accreditation have the experience and skill to offer efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to help your enterprise in vital security disciplines including information security governance, vulnerability assessment, data protection program management, and crisis handling support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include security management procedures, security architecture and models, access control systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP status as a result of rigorous examination and extensive hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned 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 skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious achievement that represents expertise in IS security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo a comprehensive test overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant able to help businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, IT administration, network assets and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, protecting information assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and maintain information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially auditing your IS control mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for implementing company-wide security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified professional possesses the skills appropriate to deliver support in vital categories of system, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the network security services covered under GIAC certification topics 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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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Help
If your organization is located in Boise or anywhere in the state of Idaho and you're looking for cybersecurity expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.