Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast online help with data security problems, businesses in Boise Idaho can find expert support by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support staff is ready to provide efficient and economical assistance with security crises that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's security consultants are certified to support environments based on Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services encompasses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected network infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support team has earned the world's most advanced security certifications including CISM and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides online security assistance on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum minutes and no additional charges for sign-up or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps costs low and eliminates situations where quick fixes entail big bills.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
If your network is currently experiencing a security crisis, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Support to learn how to get immediate aid. Progent maintains a team of certified network security specialists who can provide online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future attacks.

For businesses who have planned in advance for an attack, the formal incident handling model outlined by GIAC is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Coordinating network security and staying ready for recovering critical information and functions after an attack demands an on-going effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security experts can help your business at all levels in your efforts to protect your IT network, from security evaluation to designing a complete security program. Important areas covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Building Protected Environments
Any company should have a carefully considered security strategy that includes both preventive and responsive activity. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that helps to minimize security gaps. The post-attack plan defines procedures to assist security personnel to assess the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the event, and revive business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your business operations. Progent can set up scanning utilities, define and build a safe network architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to maximize the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design safe offsite connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services include non-stop online network monitoring and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with regulatory data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in restoring networks and servers that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed because of a security penetration. Progent can help evaluate the losses caused by the breach, return your company to normal business operations, and recover information compromised as a result of the assault. Progent's security specialists can also manage a thorough failure analysis by examining event logs and utilizing other proven assessment tools. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to suggest efficient strategies to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild an IT network victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to address the entire malware attack progression including blocking, detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also help you to set up and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and enables rapid recovery of critical files, applications and VMs that have become lost or corrupted due to component failures, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the infrastructure of top data security vendors to provide web-based control and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. 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 Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, find and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require the instant you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers offer unique support in vital areas of IT protection including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a set of automatic network tests to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with testing tools and can assist you to analyze assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also can perform web application validation and can perform expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major global security specifications such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances as well as portable devices. Read additional details about Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class technical services for Cisco's entire family of security and VPN technologies including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Learn more information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and VPN Solutions
As well as supporting a wide range of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes top-level support for products from other major firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the fundamental competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that computer security professionals are required to master. It provides executive management the confidence that consultants who have earned their accreditation have the background and skill to offer efficient security administration and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified expert to help your organization in key security areas including data security governance, vulnerability assessment, data security process control, and incident response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered within CISSP include security administration practices, security design and models, connection permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn more information about Progent's CISSP Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts have earned ISSAP certification after rigorous examination and significant experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Read additional information concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure System Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations 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 cybersecurity consultant to assist your organization to follow modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

Learn more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting.

CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a prestigious qualification that represents mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant trained to help businesses in the fields of IS audit process, information technology enforcement, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, protecting data assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk management expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially auditing your IS management mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing company-wide security policies.

Find out more information concerning Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Consulting.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security engineers. GIAC's mission is to assure that an accredited security consultant has the knowledge needed to provide support in important areas of network, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the assistance of certified security engineers for all of the security disciplines addressed within GIAC accreditation topics such as auditing security systems, incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Help
If your company is located in Boise Idaho and you're looking for computer security expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Boise Metro Area.