Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get fast online assistance with computer security issues, companies in Charlotte, NC, have access to expert expertise by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support staff is ready to offer fast and low-cost assistance with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to support systems based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of consulting services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure system architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and CISSP.

Progent provides remote security help on a per-minute model with no minimum call duration and without additional fees for setup or off-hour support. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where quick fixes result in big charges.

We've Been Hacked: What Should We Do?
If your business is now experiencing a security crisis, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Network Help to find out how to receive immediate aid. Progent has a team of certified cybersecurity experts who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future exploits.

For companies who have prepared beforehand for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack handling procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of responding to a major security penetration.

Overview of Security Expertise
Managing data protection and planning for restoring critical data and functions after an attack requires a continual program involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security experts can support your organization at any level in your efforts to safeguard your information network, ranging from security assessments to designing a complete security strategy. Some technologies supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Borne Threats.

Planning and Building Protected Networks
Every organization should develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both proactive and reactive steps. The proactive strategy is a set of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies activities to help security staff to assess the damage resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and revive business activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your business processes. Progent can install scanning utilities, define and implement a safe network infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to optimize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to set up a firewall, design protected offsite connectivity to email and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If you are interested in an economical option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages feature automated online network tracking and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud resources and that comply with government and industry data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in restoring networks and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have ceased to function as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can help determine the losses caused by the attack, restore ordinary functions, and recover data compromised owing to the breach. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough failure analysis by examining event logs and utilizing other proven assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to propose efficient ways to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects 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 is an endpoint protection service that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including filtering, detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and enables fast restoration of vital data, applications and VMs that have become lost or damaged due to component breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images/, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored 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 such as HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed 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 technology of leading data security vendors to provide centralized control and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III 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 protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware solution without a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, retrieve and protect information about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time thrown away looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's security consultants can provide unique support in vital facets of IT security such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security evaluation tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a set of automatic network tests to uncover possible security holes. Progent has broad skills with these and similar tools and can help you to analyze audit results and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web software validation and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key global security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security covering in-place wireless appliances as well as portable devices. Learn additional information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Get additional information concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
As well as supporting a broad range of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes top-level support for security products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWALL Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

CISM Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the core skills and worldwide standards of performance that computer security professionals are expected to master. CISM offers executive management the assurance that those who have earned their accreditation have the background and skill to offer efficient security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to assist your enterprise in key security disciplines such as information protection governance, vulnerability management, information security process control, and incident handling management.

Find out the details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Assistance.

CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of 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. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security design and models, connection control methodology, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP certified security experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification following rigorous examination and substantial experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-qualified security consultants can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Read the details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected IT Infrastructure Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Qualified Cybersecurity 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 can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that represents expertise in network security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo a comprehensive test overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-qualified security professional trained to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology enforcement, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding data assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and carry out a business continuity strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-qualified consultants for objectively auditing your IS control mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing company-wide security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited professional has the skills appropriate to provide support in important areas of system, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the security services covered within GIAC certification programs including auditing security systems, incident handling, intrusion detection, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Support
If your organization is located in Charlotte or elsewhere in the state of North Carolina and you're looking for computer security support services, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.