Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote help with data security issues, businesses in Charleston South Carolina can find expert expertise from Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support staff is available to offer fast and affordable help with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited security engineers are certified to support environments powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad array of consulting services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected network architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has earned the world's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides remote security support services on a by-the-minute model with no minimum minutes and without extra fees for setup or after hours service. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's billing model keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where quick fixes entail major expenses.

We've Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your network is now experiencing a network security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to find out how to receive immediate assistance. Progent has a pool of veteran network security experts who offer online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For companies who have planned carefully for an attack, the formal incident handling model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of handling a major security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Managing network security as well as staying ready for recovering critical information and functions after an attack demands an on-going process involving a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified security consultants can support your business at any level in your attempt to secure your information network, ranging from security evaluation to creating a complete security strategy. Some areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from Email-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Every business ought to have a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive steps. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines activities to assist IT staff to assess the losses caused by a breach, remediate the damage, document the event, and restore business activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to design security into your business operations. Progent can install scanning utilities, define and execute a safe IT infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies that will enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design protected remote connectivity to email and data, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an economical option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages include continual remote system tracking and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 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 integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has expertise in recovering networks and devices that have been hacked, are in question, or have ceased to function following a security penetration. Progent can help determine the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to normal functions, and retrieve data compromised owing to the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a comprehensive forensic evaluation by examining event logs and using a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to propose effective ways to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct a network damaged by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates next generation behavior analysis technology to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including protection, identification, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device management, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and verify a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and enables rapid recovery of vital data, applications and VMs that have become lost or damaged due to component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your critical information. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of top information security vendors to provide centralized management and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware solution without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time thrown away searching for vital 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 such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers can provide world-class consulting support in vital facets of network protection such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive network tests to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with scanning utilities and can assist you to analyze assessment results and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web software testing and can conduct expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important worldwide security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment as well as portable devices. Read more details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn more details about Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
As well as being expert in a wide range of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes expert engineering services for products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that information technology security professionals are expected to achieve. CISM provides executive management the confidence that those who have been awarded their CISM have the experience and skill to offer efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to help your enterprise in critical security areas including data protection governance, risk management, information security process control, and crisis response management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification through verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and models, connection permission systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Read more information concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation as a result of rigorous examination and significant hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access management systems and methodologies, phone system and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a recognized qualification that signifies mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has candidates pass an extensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer able to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit process, information technology administration, network assets and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and support information system controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and execute a business continuity plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively evaluating your IS management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited security consultant possesses the skills necessary to deliver support in critical categories of network, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions around the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of certified consultants for any of the security capabilities covered under GIAC certification programs such as assessing IT infrastructure, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your business is located in Charleston South Carolina and you need computer security expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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