Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast remote assistance with data security problems, businesses in Boise Idaho have access to expert support by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to offer fast and economical assistance with security crises that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to support environments powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services addresses firewall configuration, email security, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's most advanced security credentials including CISM and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides online security expertise on a per-minute basis without minimum minutes and without extra charges for sign-up or off-hour support. By billing per minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where quick solutions turn into major bills.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your business is now experiencing a security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Support to see how to get immediate assistance. Progent maintains a team of veteran cybersecurity specialists who can provide remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity posture to protect against future exploits.

For organizations that have planned in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack handling model promoted by GIAC is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Security Services
Managing computer security as well as preparation for restoring critical information and functions after a security breach demands an on-going process involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can help your organization at whatever level in your efforts to secure your IT system, from security audits to creating a complete security plan. Important technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of Email-Borne Threats.

Designing and Implementing Protected Networks
Every business should have a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both preventive and responsive steps. The pre-attack plan is a collection of precautions that works to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan specifies activities to help security staff to inventory the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and restore business activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can set up scanning software, define and execute a safe computer architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to help you to set up a firewall, deploy protected remote access to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If you are looking for an affordable way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages include non-stop online network monitoring and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud-based resources and that comply with regulatory security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in restoring systems and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have ceased to function following a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to assess the damage caused by the attack, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover data compromised as a result of the assault. Progent's security specialists can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by examining event logs and utilizing other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to propose effective measures to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an IT network compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer organizations of any size a versatile and affordable solution for assessing, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking updates to your ever-evolving IT network. Besides optimizing the protection and functionality of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services free up time for your in-house IT staff to focus on line-of-business projects and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of network monitoring and management services is intended 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 Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the complete malware attack progression including blocking, identification, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. 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 Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver economical in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent can also help you to install and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
Progent has partnered with leading backup/restore technology vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a family of offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS products manage and monitor your backup processes and enable transparent backup and fast restoration of vital files, apps, images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you protect against data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, user error, ill-intentioned employees, or application bugs. Managed backup services in the ProSight DPS product line include ProSight DPS Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Total Backup, ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to determine which of these managed services are best suited for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the technology of leading information security vendors to provide web-based control and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Solutions
Progent's Duo authentication service plans utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured online account and give your password you are requested to verify who you are via a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different network channel. A broad selection of out-of-band devices can be used as this second form of authentication such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register multiple verification devices. To find out more about Duo identity validation services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for an at-home workforce.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs 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 secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, find and protect information related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require when you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified engineers can provide unique support in key areas of IT protection such as:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of comprehensive system scans to reveal possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with testing tools and can assist your company to analyze audit reports and respond appropriately. Progent's security consultants also offer web application validation and can perform thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major industry security specifications such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances as well as portable devices. Read additional details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth technical support for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Get the details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to supporting a broad array of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes expert consulting for products from other major firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services
CISM identifies the basic skills and international standards of service that computer security managers are required to master. CISM provides business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM have the background and knowledge to provide efficient security administration and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to help your organization in vital security disciplines including data protection governance, vulnerability management, information security program control, and incident response management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP status as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include security administration practices, security design and test systems, connection permission systems, applications development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation after rigorous examination and significant hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned 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 can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, define effective design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The CISA credential is a prestigious qualification that indicates mastery in IS security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that candidates pass an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer able to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology administration, systems and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and maintain information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management services are complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively auditing your IS control design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for defining security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge appropriate to provide services in vital areas of system, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the help of certified security engineers for all of the network security capabilities covered under GIAC certification programs including auditing perimeters, incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Boise Idaho and you want cybersecurity support services, telephone 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.