Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote assistance with network security problems, businesses in Boise Idaho have access to world-class support by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are available to provide effective and economical help with security problems that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected system infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the industry's top security accreditations including Global Information Assurance Certification and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent offers online security support on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum times and no additional fees for setup or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's billing structure keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where quick solutions result in big bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
If your business is now fighting a security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Online Network Help to see how to get fast help. Progent maintains a pool of veteran cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to guard against future exploits.

For businesses that have planned carefully for an attack, the formal incident response model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of handling a major security attack.

Overview of Security Services
Coordinating computer protection plus planning for recovering vital data and systems after an attack demands a continual process that entails an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified experts can support your organization at whatever level in your attempt to protect your IT system, from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Important areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Protected Networks
Every business should develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive activity. The pre-attack plan is a collection of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to help IT staff to evaluate the losses resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive network activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your company operations. Progent can set up scanning utilities, define and build a safe network architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to set up a firewall, deploy protected remote access to e-mail and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an economical option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages feature non-stop remote network tracking and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in restoring systems and servers that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed as a result of a security attack. Progent can help evaluate the losses resulting from the breach, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve information lost as a result of the event. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over activity logs and using a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to recommend efficient strategies to avoid or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct a network victimized by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and recovery services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight series 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 aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the entire malware attack progression including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and enables fast recovery of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can help you to recover your critical information. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

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 top information security vendors to provide centralized control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's 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. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

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 key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time wasted trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common 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 offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information 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 can provide unique expertise in key facets of network security including:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a set of comprehensive system tests to reveal possible security holes. Progent has extensive skills with testing utilities and can assist your company to analyze audit results and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web software testing and can perform expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key global security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Get additional information about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Get more information about Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a broad array of network security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes top-level engineering services for technologies from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
CISM defines the core skills and worldwide standards of service that information technology security managers are required to master. It offers business management the confidence that those who have been awarded their accreditation have the experience and skill to offer effective security management and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM expert to help your organization in key security disciplines including data protection governance, risk management, information security process control, and crisis response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have earned CISSP status through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered within CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security architecture and test systems, access permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out additional details about Progent's CISSP Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough testing and significant experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all phases of architecture security.

Learn more information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected Network Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, define effective configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious achievement that indicates expertise in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has candidates pass an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer able to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, information technology governance, systems and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, protecting data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn more details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Services.

CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and maintain IS controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and carry out a business continuity strategy based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management expertise is complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially evaluating your IT control mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for implementing company-wide security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security experts. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified professional possesses the skills appropriate to deliver services in important categories of system, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions throughout the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the expertise of certified security engineers for any of the security services addressed within GIAC accreditation programs such as assessing networks, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Support
If your company is located in Boise Idaho and you're looking for network security consulting expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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