Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote help with network security problems, businesses in Calgary Alberta have access to world-class troubleshooting from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote support consultants are available to offer fast and affordable help with security emergencies that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to support environments powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad array of consulting services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the world's top security credentials including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides remote security expertise on a per-minute basis with no minimum minutes and without extra charges for sign-up or off-hour service. By billing by the minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes turn into major expenses.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
In case your business is now faced with a network security crisis, go to Progent's Urgent Online Computer Help to learn how to get immediate assistance. Progent maintains a team of seasoned cybersecurity experts who can provide online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future exploits.

For businesses who have planned carefully for a security breech, the step-by-step incident response model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a major security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Managing computer security plus planning for restoring vital information and systems after a security breach demands a continual effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security professionals can support your organization at whatever level in your efforts to guard your IT network, ranging from security assessments to creating a complete security strategy. Some technologies covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Every business ought to have a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and reactive elements. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy defines activities to help security personnel to assess the damage resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore business activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to design security into your business operations. Progent can set up auditing software, create and implement a secure IT infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies that will enhance the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy secure online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an efficient VPN.

If your company is looking for an economical option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages include non-stop remote system monitoring and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud resources and that comply with government security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in recovering networks and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have failed because of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to assess the damage caused by the assault, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a thorough forensic analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing other advanced assessment techniques. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest efficient measures to avoid or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an information system damaged by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of network management outsourcing 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. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including protection, identification, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within one agent accessible from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and enables fast restoration of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted due to hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

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 top information security companies to deliver centralized management and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The hybrid 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, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's 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 fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting environment without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, find and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time spent looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require the instant you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants can provide unique specialized help in key facets of IT security including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a variety of automatic system tests to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with scanning tools and can assist you to analyze assessment results and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web application validation and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important industry security specifications including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security including stationary wireless appliances plus portable handsets. Learn more information about Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class technical support for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network technologies such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn more information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and VPN Technologies
As well as being expert in a wide array of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of any size advanced consulting for security products from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Engineering Services

CISM Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the fundamental competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that IT security professionals are expected to master. CISM offers executive management the confidence that those who have earned their certification possess the background and knowledge to provide effective security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM consultant to assist your enterprise in vital security areas including information security governance, vulnerability management, information protection process control, and crisis handling management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP status through verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included within CISSP include security management procedures, security design and models, connection control methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants have earned ISSAP certification as a result of rigorous examination and substantial hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth understanding of access control systems and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Find out more information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure IT Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all critical system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a recognized achievement that represents mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has candidates pass an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant able to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, IT governance, systems 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 CRISC program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to design, implement, and support information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially evaluating your IT control mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for designing security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security professionals. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited professional possesses the skills necessary to provide services in critical categories of system, information, and program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the support of certified security engineers for any of the security services addressed within GIAC accreditation programs including auditing networks, incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Calgary Alberta and you're looking for cybersecurity help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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