Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate online assistance with network security problems, businesses in Brisbane Queensland can find expert troubleshooting from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support consultants are ready to offer effective and affordable assistance with security emergencies that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security engineers are certified to support systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected system infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent offers online security expertise on a by-the-minute model without minimum times and without additional fees for sign-up or after hours service. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's billing model keeps costs low and avoids situations where simple fixes entail big charges.

We've Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your business is now fighting a network security crisis, visit Progent's Urgent Online Network Help to learn how to get fast help. Progent has a team of certified cybersecurity specialists who can provide remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security posture to guard against future exploits.

For businesses who have prepared beforehand for an attack, the formal incident response procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's approved method of responding to a serious security penetration.

Overview of Security Services
Coordinating computer protection as well as staying ready for restoring critical information and systems following a security breach requires an on-going effort involving an array of tools and processes. Progent's security engineers can support your organization at all levels in your attempt to secure your information system, from security audits to creating a complete security program. Some technologies covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Protected Networks
Every business ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive activity. The pre-attack plan is a collection of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The post-attack strategy defines activities to help security staff to inventory the damage resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, document the event, and restore business functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your business operations. Progent can install scanning utilities, define and implement a secure computer infrastructure, and propose processes and policies to maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design safe offsite connectivity to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient VPN.

If your company is interested in an economical option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options include non-stop online system monitoring and fast response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with government and industry security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in recovering networks and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working because of a security attack. Progent can help evaluate the damage resulting from the breach, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve data lost as a result of the event. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a thorough failure analysis by going over activity logs and using a variety of proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to recommend efficient strategies to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware removal and recovery services.

{Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Solutions
Work-from-Home employees commonly use their personal devices and often operate in a unsecured physical space. This multiplies their vulnerability to malware attacks and calls for judicious deployment of firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the development of policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned team of Work-from-home support experts can help your business to design, implement and manage an effective security solution that protects vital information assets in networks that include telecommuters.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective solution for assessing, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving IT network. In addition to optimizing the protection and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your in-house IT staff to concentrate on more strategic initiatives and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior analysis technology to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to address the entire malware attack lifecycle including protection, detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with leading backup/restore technology companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a selection of subscription-based offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services manage and track your backup processes and enable non-disruptive backup and fast recovery of critical files/folders, applications, system images, plus virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets your business protect against data loss resulting from equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, human error, malicious insiders, or application glitches. Managed backup services available in the ProSight DPS portfolio include ProSight Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Total Backup, ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent expert can help you to determine which of these managed services are most appropriate for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security companies to provide web-based control and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo authentication services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, when you log into a secured application and give your password you are requested to verify your identity via a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of devices can be utilized for this second means of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may register multiple validation devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for an at-home workforce.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting service. Find out more details 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 makes it easy to capture, maintain, find and safeguard data related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains and warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as half of time wasted looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location 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 advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you�re making improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need when you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer world-class specialized help in vital facets of IT protection including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with security evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a variety of automatic network scans to uncover potential security holes. Progent has extensive experience with scanning utilities and can help your company to understand assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web software validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important global security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless appliances as well as mobile handsets. Read more information about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class consulting services for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out more information about Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as supporting a wide array of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes advanced engineering services for products from other popular firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the core competencies and international benchmarks of performance that computer security managers are required to master. CISM provides business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their certification have the experience and skill to provide effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to help your enterprise in key security disciplines including information protection governance, risk management, data protection process management, and crisis response management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered within CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and test systems, access control methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP certification after thorough testing and extensive hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth knowledge of access control systems and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises with the services expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your organization to utilize modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security features for all critical system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a globally recognized qualification that indicates expertise in IS security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential has consultants undergo an extensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security professional trained to help companies in the fields of information systems audit process, IT governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting data assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to design, implement, and support information system controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively auditing your IS control mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM experts for implementing security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security engineers. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified security consultant has the skills needed to provide services in critical categories of network, data, and program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified professionals for any of the security disciplines covered under GIAC certification topics including auditing security systems, incident response, intrusion detection, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Support
If your company is situated in Brisbane Queensland and you're trying to find computer security help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.