Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get fast remote help with computer security problems, businesses in Charleston South Carolina can find world-class support by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service staff is available to provide fast and economical help with security problems that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to support environments powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services covers firewall technology, email security, protected network design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides remote security assistance on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and no extra charges for sign-up or after hours support. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where simple solutions turn into major expenses.

We've Been Hacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your business is now faced with a security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Online Computer Support to find out how to get fast assistance. Progent maintains a pool of certified network security specialists who can provide remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity posture to protect against future exploits.

For businesses who have planned carefully for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack handling procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Coordinating data protection plus planning for recovering vital data and functions after a security breach demands an on-going process that entails an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified security professionals can support your business at whatever level in your efforts to secure your IT system, ranging from security audits to creating a comprehensive security program. Important technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Protected Networks
Every company ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both proactive and responsive steps. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines procedures to help IT staff to evaluate the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and revive business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your company operations. Progent can set up scanning software, create and execute a secure network infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies that will maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, design secure remote access to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an affordable option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services include automated online server monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud hosted resources and that are compliant with government and industry data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in recovering systems and servers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working because of a security breach. Progent can help assess the damage caused by the attack, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve information lost owing to the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a comprehensive forensic evaluation by examining activity logs and using other advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to suggest effective ways to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Work-from-Home Cybersecurity Expertise
At-home staff members commonly utilize their own computing devices and usually operate in a unsecured physical environment. This situation increases their susceptibility to malware threats and requires careful configuration of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, extensive end-user training, and the creation of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran group of Work-from-home solutions consultants can assist your business to design, configure and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that protects vital information resources in environments that incorporate an at-home workforce.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of any size a flexible and affordable alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking updates to your ever-evolving IT network. In addition to optimizing the protection and functionality of your computer environment, Progent's patch management services free up time for your in-house IT team to focus on more strategic projects and activities that derive maximum business value from your network. Read more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to manage the entire malware attack progression including filtering, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber 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 Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
Progent has partnered with advanced backup technology companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services manage and track your backup operations and allow non-disruptive backup and rapid restoration of vital files, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets your business recover from data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, human mistakes, ill-intentioned employees, or software bugs. Managed backup services available in the ProSight Data Protection selection include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent expert can help you to identify which of these fully managed backup services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of top data security companies to deliver centralized control and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo authentication managed services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, when you sign into a protected application and enter your password you are asked to verify your identity on a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad selection of devices can be used for this added means of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can register multiple validation devices. For details about Duo identity authentication services, visit Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for telecommuters.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III 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 secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting service. 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 makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and safeguard data related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time spent searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you're making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran engineers offer world-class consulting support in key facets of IT protection such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive network tests to identify possible security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar utilities and can assist your company to analyze assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web application testing and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key worldwide security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment plus mobile handsets. Read additional details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth consulting support for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out the details concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a wide range of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes expert engineering services for solutions from other major firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Help

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic skills and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information technology security managers are expected to master. It offers business management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their CISM have the background and knowledge to provide effective security management and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to assist your enterprise in key security areas such as information security governance, risk assessment, data protection program management, and crisis handling support.

Get additional information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include security administration practices, security design and test systems, access control methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Get the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of rigorous examination and extensive experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth knowledge of access management systems and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity 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 about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations with the services associated with 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 expert to assist your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical security solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

Find out the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a prestigious achievement that indicates expertise in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has candidates pass an extensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security engineer able to help companies in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology administration, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Learn additional details about Progent's CISA Professional Expertise.

CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively assessing your IS control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing security policies.

Read the details concerning Progent's CRISC Network Risk Management Consulting.

GIAC Support Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security professionals. GIAC's goal is to assure that an accredited security consultant possesses the skills necessary to provide support in critical categories of network, information, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the help of certified consultants for any of the network security capabilities covered within GIAC accreditation programs such as auditing security systems, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Depend on Progent for Computer Security Help
If your company is located in Charleston South Carolina and you need computer security support services, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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