Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate online help with computer security issues, businesses in Brisbane Queensland have access to expert troubleshooting from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are available to offer fast and economical help with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to support systems based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services encompasses firewall technology, email security, protected network design, and business continuity planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor and ISSAP.

Progent provides remote security assistance on a per-minute model without minimum call duration and without additional fees for setup or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's billing policy keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where quick fixes result in big expenses.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
If you are currently experiencing a network security crisis, go to Progent's Urgent Online Network Help to see how to get immediate assistance. Progent maintains a pool of certified network security experts who offer online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For organizations that have planned carefully for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack response model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a major security attack.

Overview of Security Expertise
Coordinating data security and staying ready for recovering critical information and systems following a security breach demands a continual process involving a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified professionals can support your business at any level in your attempt to secure your IT system, from security evaluation to designing a complete security program. Some areas covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Every organization ought to have a carefully thought out security strategy that includes both preventive and responsive steps. The pre-attack plan is a set of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy specifies procedures to help security staff to inventory the losses resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your business operations. Progent can install auditing utilities, create and execute a safe IT architecture, and propose procedures and policies to maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, design protected online and mobile access to email and data, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an economical option for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages include non-stop remote network monitoring and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with government data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and devices that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function following a security breach. Progent can show you how to assess the losses caused by the attack, restore ordinary business operations, and recover information compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough failure evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to propose efficient measures to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an environment victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware removal and recovery services.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer organizations of any size a flexible and cost-effective alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving information system. In addition to optimizing the security and reliability of your computer network, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your IT staff to focus on more strategic initiatives and activities that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Fixed-price 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 cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire threat lifecycle including blocking, detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific needs and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent can also assist your company to install and test a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and allows rapid restoration of vital files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when necessary, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security vendors to deliver web-based control and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks most threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. 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 an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and protect information about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure 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 information. Whether you’re making improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require as soon as you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer world-class specialized help in vital facets of computer protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of automatic network tests to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with scanning utilities and can help your company to analyze audit results and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web application validation and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important worldwide security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Learn more information concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network products including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Learn the details concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
As well as supporting a broad range of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes advanced consulting for products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services
CISM identifies the fundamental competencies and worldwide standards of performance that information security managers are expected to master. CISM offers business management the confidence that consultants who have earned their accreditation have the background and skill to provide effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to assist your enterprise in key security areas such as data security governance, risk management, information security process control, and crisis handling support.

Get more information concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services.

CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include security management procedures, security design and test systems, access permission methodology, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation following thorough testing and extensive hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Get more details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected IT Infrastructure Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the services expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The CISA credential is a recognized qualification that indicates mastery in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that consultants pass an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant able to assist companies in the areas of IS audit services, information technology administration, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively assessing your IT management design and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing security policies.

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GIAC Consulting Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to provide services in vital categories of network, data, and program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations around the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the expertise of certified security engineers for any of the network security disciplines covered within GIAC certification topics including auditing perimeters, security incident response, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Brisbane Queensland and you're trying to find network security help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.