Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get fast online help with data security issues, businesses in Calgary Alberta can find world-class support from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are available to provide effective and affordable assistance with security crises that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited security engineers are certified to support environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services encompasses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the industry's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and ISSAP.

Progent offers remote security expertise on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum minutes and no additional fees for sign-up or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs low and eliminates situations where quick fixes turn into big charges.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do?
In case your business is now experiencing a security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Technical Help to find out how to receive immediate help. Progent has a pool of seasoned network security experts who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future exploits.

For organizations who have prepared in advance for an attack, the formal post-attack response procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's approved method of handling a major security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Managing network security as well as preparedness for restoring critical information and systems following an attack demands a continual program that entails a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's security professionals can assist your business at any level in your attempt to protect your information system, from security evaluation to designing a complete security strategy. Important areas covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Every business should have a carefully thought out security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that works to reduce security gaps. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to assist security staff to inventory the losses resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore network activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to design security into your company processes. Progent can install auditing utilities, create and build a secure computer architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, design secure remote connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an efficient VPN.

If you are interested in an economical option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services feature automated remote network tracking and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud hosted resources and that are compliant with regulatory data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises 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 Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in restoring systems and servers that have been compromised, are in question, or have failed as a result of a security penetration. Progent can help assess the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover information compromised as a result of the breach. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a comprehensive forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and using other proven assessment tools. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to suggest efficient ways to prevent or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild an environment damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of managed 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 Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to manage the entire malware attack progression including blocking, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer economical in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent can also help you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services 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 physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and enables fast restoration of vital files, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide advanced support to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when necessary, can help you to recover your critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the technology of leading information security companies to deliver centralized control and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks most threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class 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 protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, retrieve and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require the instant you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security engineers offer world-class consulting support in key areas of computer security such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a set of comprehensive network scans to identify possible security holes. Progent has broad skills with these and similar utilities and can help you to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web software testing and can conduct expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important worldwide security specifications such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances as well as mobile devices. Learn more details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical services for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Read additional information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to supporting a wide range of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size advanced engineering services for security products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Help

CISM Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the core competencies and international benchmarks of service that information security managers are required to achieve. It provides business management the confidence that those who have been awarded their certification have the experience and skill to provide effective security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to help your enterprise in key security areas such as information protection governance, risk assessment, information security process management, and crisis response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and models, access control systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have earned ISSAP accreditation after rigorous examination and significant experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive understanding of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your organization to follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a globally recognized achievement that represents expertise in network security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has consultants pass a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant able to help businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, IT governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT support, protecting information assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially evaluating your IT management design and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for defining security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills appropriate to deliver support in important categories of system, information, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and institutions around the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the help of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the network security services addressed within GIAC certification programs including assessing perimeters, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your company is situated in Calgary Alberta and you need computer security consulting, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Calgary metro area.