Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online assistance with data security issues, businesses in Charleston South Carolina have access to expert expertise by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote support consultants are ready to offer effective and affordable help with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's security consultants are premier to support systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide array of consulting services encompasses firewall configuration, email security, secure system infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's top security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides remote security support services on a per-minute basis with no minimum times and no extra charges for setup or after hours service. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses under control and eliminates situations where quick fixes result in big charges.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your network is currently experiencing a security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Support to learn how to get immediate help. Progent has a pool of seasoned cybersecurity experts who offer remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have planned carefully for an attack, the step-by-step incident handling procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of responding to a major security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Managing data protection as well as preparation for recovering critical data and functions following a security breach requires a continual process involving an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified professionals can support your organization at all levels in your attempt to secure your information system, ranging from security assessments to designing a complete security strategy. Important technologies covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Borne Threats.

Designing and Building Secure Networks
Every company ought to develop a carefully considered security plan that includes both proactive and reactive steps. The proactive strategy is a set of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to help security staff to assess the losses resulting from a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and restore business functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your company processes. Progent can install scanning software, define and build a safe network infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to enhance the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to set up a firewall, deploy protected online and mobile connectivity to email and data, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an economical way for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services include continual online network monitoring and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud-based resources and that comply with regulatory security standards. (Learn 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 planning and integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has expertise in recovering networks and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have stopped working following a security penetration. Progent can show you how to determine the damage caused by the attack, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the event. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a thorough failure evaluation by going over event logs and using a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to recommend efficient measures to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an IT network compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes next generation behavior analysis tools to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to manage the entire threat lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring 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 affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device management, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection regulations. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent can also assist you to install and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly 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 Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and allows fast restoration of vital data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security vendors to deliver centralized control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight 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 organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Learn 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 makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect information about your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time spent looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require the instant you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers can provide world-class support in vital areas of IT security such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security auditing tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of automatic system tests to identify possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with these tools and can assist your company to analyze assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also provide web application validation and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with key global security specifications such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances plus mobile devices. Get more details about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical support for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Get the details concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as supporting a wide array of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size advanced consulting for products from other popular firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Consulting
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the core skills and worldwide standards of performance that information security managers are expected to achieve. It provides business management the confidence that those who have been awarded their CISM have the experience and knowledge to offer effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to assist your organization in key security disciplines such as data protection governance, risk assessment, data security process management, and crisis handling support.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered within CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and models, connection control systems, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have been awarded ISSAP certification following rigorous examination and substantial hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth understanding of access control systems and techniques, phone system and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Find out more details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure System Infrastructure Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, define effective design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a recognized qualification that signifies expertise in IS security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass a comprehensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security professional trained to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology enforcement, systems and architecture planned useful life, information technology service delivery, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and execute a business continuity plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively evaluating your IS management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM experts for implementing security policies and procedures.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Support.

GIAC Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited security consultant possesses the skills necessary to deliver services in important categories of system, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the assistance of certified consultants for all of the security disciplines covered within GIAC accreditation programs including auditing perimeters, security incident response, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your business is situated in Charleston South Carolina and you're looking for computer security consulting, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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