Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online help with network security problems, businesses in Chandler Arizona can find world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are ready to provide efficient and low-cost help with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services addresses firewall configuration, email security, secure system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the industry's most advanced security certifications including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides online security assistance on a per-minute model without minimum minutes and without additional charges for sign-up or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions result in major charges.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your business is currently experiencing a security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to see how to get immediate assistance. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned network security experts who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future exploits.

For organizations that have prepared carefully for being hacked, the formal incident response model promoted by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of handling a serious security incident.

Introduction to Security Services
Managing computer security and staying ready for recovering vital data and functions following an attack demands an on-going process involving a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified professionals can assist your business at any level in your efforts to guard your IT network, ranging from security evaluation to designing a complete security plan. Some technologies supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from Email-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Any business ought to develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both preventive and reactive steps. The proactive plan is a collection of precautions that works to minimize security gaps. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to help security staff to evaluate the losses caused by a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive business activity as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your company processes. Progent can configure auditing software, define and implement a safe computer architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to help you to set up a firewall, deploy safe remote connectivity to e-mail and data, and install an efficient VPN.

If you are interested in an affordable way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options feature automated online network tracking and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud infrastructure and that comply with regulatory data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in restoring systems and servers that have been hacked, are in question, or have stopped working as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can help determine the damage resulting from the breach, restore normal business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the breach. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a comprehensive forensic analysis by examining event logs and using a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security problems reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to suggest efficient ways to prevent or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Work-from-Home Cybersecurity Expertise
Work-from-Home (WFH) employees commonly use their own computing devices and often work in a poorly secured physical environment. This situation increases their susceptibility to cyber threats and requires careful configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive end-user education, and the development of policies built on best practices. Progent's veteran group of at-home workforce solutions consultants can help you to plan, deploy and maintain a compliant security solution that protects vital information assets in environments that incorporate an at-home workforce.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management provide businesses of all sizes a versatile and affordable solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your dynamic information system. Besides maximizing the protection and reliability of your computer network, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your IT staff to concentrate on more strategic initiatives and activities that deliver the highest business value from your information network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight family 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 facets of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by legacy signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to address the complete malware attack lifecycle including blocking, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer economical in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that require urgent attention. Progent can also help you to install and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with leading backup/restore technology vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a selection of offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services automate and track your data backup operations and enable transparent backup and fast restoration of critical files/folders, applications, system images, plus virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets you avoid data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, human mistakes, ill-intentioned insiders, or application glitches. Managed services available in the ProSight DPS portfolio include ProSight DPS Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to determine which of these fully managed services are best suited for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of leading information security companies to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo authentication services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, when you sign into a protected online account and give your password you are asked to verify who you are via a device that only you possess and that uses a separate network channel. A broad range of devices can be utilized as this second means of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can register several verification devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity validation services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for teleworkers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting environment without requiring a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, update, retrieve and protect data related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains and warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time thrown away searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you�re making improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require the instant you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified security engineers can provide world-class expertise in vital areas of computer protection such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a variety of comprehensive network scans to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has broad skills with scanning tools and can assist your company to analyze assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's security engineers also offer web software testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with key industry security specifications such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances as well as mobile devices. Get more details about Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class consulting support for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Find out additional information concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as supporting a broad range of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes expert consulting for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Consulting
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the basic skills and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information technology security professionals are expected to master. It offers executive management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their accreditation have the background and skill to provide efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM expert to assist your organization in key security disciplines such as information security governance, risk assessment, data protection process control, and crisis handling support.

Find out more information about Progent's CISM Security Support Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included within CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and models, access permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants have earned ISSAP status following rigorous testing and substantial hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.

Read more information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Architecture Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a recognized achievement that indicates expertise in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an extensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant able to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit services, IT governance, network assets and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, protecting data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified Risk Management Experts
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to plan, implement, and support IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and execute a workplace continuity strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially auditing your IT management design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for designing security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited professional possesses the knowledge appropriate to deliver services in important areas of network, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the expertise of GIAC certified professionals for any of the security disciplines addressed within GIAC accreditation topics including auditing perimeters, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your company is situated in Chandler Arizona and you want network security engineering help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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