Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote help with computer security issues, businesses in Charleston South Carolina can find world-class support from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to provide effective and economical help with security crises that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services addresses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager and CISSP.

Progent provides online security assistance on a per-minute basis without minimum times and without additional charges for setup or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by delivering world-class help, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses under control and eliminates situations where simple solutions entail major charges.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do?
If you are now faced with a security emergency, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Network Support to learn how to receive fast assistance. Progent maintains a pool of veteran network security specialists who can provide remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity posture to protect against future attacks.

For organizations who have planned in advance for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of responding to a major security incident.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Managing network security plus staying ready for recovering critical information and systems after an attack requires an on-going process that entails an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified professionals can help your organization at all levels in your attempt to protect your information system, ranging from security audits to creating a comprehensive security program. Some technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Protected Networks
Every company should develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of precautions that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies activities to help security personnel to inventory the losses resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your business operations. Progent can set up scanning software, define and build a secure IT infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy protected online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and information, and configure an effective virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an affordable option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options feature automated remote system tracking and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in restoring systems and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working because of a security breach. Progent can help evaluate the losses caused by the assault, return your company to ordinary business operations, and retrieve data lost as a result of the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a comprehensive failure analysis by examining event logs and utilizing other proven forensics techniques. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest efficient strategies to prevent or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an information system damaged by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

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, validating, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving IT network. In addition to maximizing the security and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services permit your IT staff to concentrate on line-of-business projects and tasks that derive the highest business value from your network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of network monitoring and management services is intended 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: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the entire malware attack lifecycle including protection, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry information security standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent can also assist you to install and verify a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and enables fast restoration of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your business-critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

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 uses the infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a further level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. For more details, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs 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 configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, find and protect information about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time thrown away looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants can provide unique support in vital areas of IT security such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk auditing utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of comprehensive system tests to reveal possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with scanning utilities and can help you to analyze audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web software validation and can conduct expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important industry security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances as well as mobile devices. Find out more details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth consulting services for Cisco's complete range of security and VPN technologies including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Learn the details about Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
As well as supporting a wide array of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size top-level engineering services for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
CISM identifies the core skills and international standards of service that information technology security professionals are required to achieve. It provides business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their accreditation have the experience and skill to offer efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to assist your enterprise in critical security areas including data protection governance, vulnerability assessment, information protection program control, and crisis response management.

Learn the details about Progent's CISM Security Support Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include security management practices, security design and models, access control methodology, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Get more details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP status as a result of thorough testing and significant hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access control systems and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Learn the details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Architecture Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises with the services 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 expert to assist your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, define effective configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important achievement that represents expertise in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that consultants pass an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit process, IT enforcement, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and maintain information system controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially auditing your IS management design and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge needed to provide services in vital categories of system, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the expertise of certified security engineers for all of the network security capabilities addressed under GIAC accreditation topics including auditing IT infrastructure, security incident response, traffic analysis, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your organization is situated in Charleston South Carolina and you're looking for computer security help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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