Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online help with network security issues, businesses in Charleston South Carolina can find expert support from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is ready to provide fast and affordable help with security problems that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's security engineers are premier to support systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's top security certifications including GIAC and CISSP.

Progent offers online security assistance on a by-the-minute model without minimum minutes and without additional fees for setup or after hours support. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where simple fixes result in major bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
In case you are currently fighting a security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Help to learn how to receive fast help. Progent maintains a pool of certified cybersecurity experts who can provide remote and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For businesses who have planned carefully for a security breech, the formal post-attack handling procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of handling a major security attack.

Overview of Security Expertise
Managing data protection and staying ready for restoring vital data and functions following an attack requires an on-going process that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified professionals can support your organization at all levels in your efforts to protect your IT system, from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Important technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Any business ought to develop a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and responsive steps. The proactive strategy is a set of precautions that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies activities to help security personnel to evaluate the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and restore business activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your company operations. Progent can install scanning utilities, create and implement a safe network architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to optimize the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected remote access to email and data, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an affordable way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options include continual online network monitoring and fast response to emergencies.

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

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in restoring networks and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have failed because of a security attack. Progent can help assess the losses resulting from the assault, restore normal business operations, and retrieve information compromised owing to the assault. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by going over activity logs and utilizing a variety of proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to recommend efficient strategies to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an information system that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and restoration services.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Cybersecurity Consulting
At-home employees typically utilize their own devices and usually work in a unsecured physical space. This situation increases their vulnerability to malware attacks and calls for careful configuration of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, intensive user education, and the development of security policies based on best practices. Progent's seasoned group of Work-from-home support consultants can help you to plan, deploy and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that guards vital IT assets in networks that incorporate telecommuters.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer organizations of all sizes a flexible and affordable solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT system. In addition to maximizing the protection and reliability of your IT network, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT staff to concentrate on line-of-business initiatives and tasks that derive maximum business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's patch management services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of network monitoring and management 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 and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to manage the complete threat progression including blocking, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for immediate action. Progent can also help you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like 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 and Recovery
Progent has partnered with leading backup product vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services automate and track your backup processes and allow non-disruptive backup and fast recovery of important files/folders, apps, system images, and VMs. ProSight DPS lets you recover from data loss resulting from hardware breakdown, natural disasters, fire, malware like ransomware, human error, ill-intentioned employees, or application bugs. Managed backup services available in the ProSight DPS family include ProSight Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Total Backup, ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent expert can assist you to determine which of these managed services are best suited for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of top information security companies to provide centralized control and world-class protection for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo authentication managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables one-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected application and give your password you are requested to verify your identity on a device that only you possess and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad selection of devices can be used for this added means of authentication such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate several verification devices. For details about Duo two-factor identity validation services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for teleworkers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting environment without requiring a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, find and protect information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time spent trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you�re making enhancements, performing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran engineers can provide unique specialized help in vital facets of computer security such as:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic network scans to identify potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar tools and can assist you to understand assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's security consultants also offer web software testing and can perform expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key global security specifications such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment plus portable devices. Read more details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class technical expertise for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn the details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to being expert in a wide range of network security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes expert engineering services for security products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Support
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the basic skills and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information technology security managers are required to achieve. It provides executive management the assurance that those who have been awarded their accreditation have the experience and skill to offer efficient security administration and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to assist your enterprise in critical security areas including information protection governance, vulnerability assessment, information protection program management, and crisis response support.

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CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered within CISSP include security management practices, security design and models, access control systems, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Find out more information concerning Progent's CISSP Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation following thorough examination and substantial experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your business with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your organization to utilize modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, define effective design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a recognized qualification that signifies expertise in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has candidates pass a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security professional able to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit process, information technology enforcement, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, protecting data resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially evaluating your IS control design and with the services of Progent's CISM experts for defining security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Consulting Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of computer security professionals. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited professional possesses the skills needed to provide support in important areas of system, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of certified security engineers for all of the security disciplines covered under GIAC certification programs such as assessing security systems, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your organization is located in Charleston South Carolina and you want network security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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