Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online help with network security problems, companies in Charleston South Carolina can find world-class expertise by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are ready to provide effective and low-cost help with security problems that threaten the productivity of your network. Progent's security consultants are certified to provide help for environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected system infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support team has earned the industry's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and CISSP.

Progent provides remote security support on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum call duration and no additional fees for setup or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where quick fixes turn into major bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do Now?
In case your network is now experiencing a security crisis, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Help to learn how to receive immediate assistance. Progent has a team of seasoned cybersecurity experts who offer online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future exploits.

For businesses that have planned carefully for being hacked, the formal post-attack response procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of handling a serious security incident.

Overview of Security Services
Managing computer protection plus preparation for recovering vital data and functions following an attack demands a continual effort involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security professionals can support your organization at all levels in your efforts to guard your information system, from security audits to designing a comprehensive security program. Key technologies covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Every company should develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both preventive and responsive activity. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that works to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan specifies activities to help security personnel to inventory the losses caused by an attack, remediate the damage, record the event, and revive business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your company processes. Progent can configure auditing software, create and build a secure computer infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies that will enhance the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy safe online and mobile connectivity to email and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an affordable way for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options feature automated online server monitoring and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with government and industry security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in recovering systems and servers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have failed because of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to assess the losses caused by the assault, restore normal functions, and retrieve data compromised owing to the event. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a comprehensive forensic analysis by going over event logs and using a variety of proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend efficient measures to avoid or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct a network victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of any size a versatile and affordable alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your ever-evolving IT system. Besides maximizing the protection and functionality of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your IT team to concentrate on more strategic initiatives and activities that derive the highest business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior analysis tools to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business 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 Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and enables rapid recovery of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted as a result of component failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can help you to restore your critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

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 vendors to deliver centralized control and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. 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 ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware solution without requiring a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one 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 an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, retrieve and protect data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time wasted searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants offer world-class expertise in key facets of IT security including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive network scans to identify potential security holes. Progent has extensive experience with testing utilities and can assist your company to understand assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web software testing and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with key global security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including in-place wireless equipment plus portable devices. Find out more details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's complete range of security and VPN technologies including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Get more information concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as being expert in a wide range of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size top-level consulting for products from other important firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

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

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the basic skills and international benchmarks of service that IT security professionals are required to master. CISM provides executive management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their CISM have the experience and knowledge to provide effective security management and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM expert to help your enterprise in vital security disciplines including information protection governance, risk assessment, information security program control, and crisis response management.

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CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security architecture and test systems, connection permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification following rigorous examination and extensive hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, define effective configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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CISA Security Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that indicates expertise in information system security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants pass a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant able to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, information technology administration, systems and architecture planned useful life, information technology support, protecting information assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to verify a consultant's ability to design, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk management expertise is a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially assessing your IS management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of computer security engineers. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited professional possesses the skills appropriate to provide services in important categories of network, information, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the expertise of GIAC certified consultants for all of the security capabilities covered under GIAC certification programs including assessing networks, security incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your company is located in Charleston South Carolina and you need cybersecurity consulting, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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