Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote help with computer security issues, companies in Charlotte North Carolina can find world-class expertise from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online support staff is ready to provide fast and affordable help with security crises that threaten the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to support systems based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services encompasses firewall technology, email security, secure network architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the industry's top security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides online security assistance on a per-minute model with no minimum minutes and without additional charges for sign-up or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where quick solutions entail major expenses.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
If your network is currently faced with a security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Network Help to see how to receive fast assistance. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned network security specialists who offer online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations that have prepared carefully for a security breech, the formal post-attack response procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating network protection and preparedness for recovering vital information and functions following an attack demands an on-going program that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's security consultants can support your business at any level in your efforts to secure your information network, from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security program. Some areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Borne Threats.

Designing and Implementing Protected Networks
Every organization should develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both proactive and responsive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of precautions that helps to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to assist security personnel to assess the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and revive network functions as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your business operations. Progent can install scanning utilities, create and implement a secure network architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy safe online and mobile connectivity to email and information, and configure an efficient VPN.

If your company is looking for an affordable option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services feature continual online network tracking and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud hosted resources and that comply with government and industry data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring systems and devices that have been hacked, are in question, or have ceased to function as a result of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage resulting from the breach, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover data lost owing to the event. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing other proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to suggest effective measures to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of network management outsourcing 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 and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to address the entire malware attack lifecycle including blocking, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and configure 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 implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require immediate action. Progent can also assist you to set up and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and allows rapid recovery of vital data, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to recover your critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading information security vendors to provide web-based control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hosting environment without requiring a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, retrieve and safeguard 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 SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time thrown away trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer unique expertise in vital areas of network protection including:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with information risk evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of automatic system tests to uncover possible security holes. Progent has extensive skills with testing utilities and can assist your company to understand audit results and react efficiently. Progent's security consultants also provide web software validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key global security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Read more details about Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network technologies such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Learn the details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
As well as supporting a broad range of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes advanced consulting for technologies from other major firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Support
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic skills and international benchmarks of performance that IT security managers are required to master. It provides executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their certification have the experience and skill to offer efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to help your organization in critical security areas including information protection governance, risk assessment, information protection program management, and incident response support.

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CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered within CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and models, access permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP status after thorough testing and substantial experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth knowledge of access management systems and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your business with all phases of architecture security.

Learn more details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity 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 security analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, define efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a prestigious achievement that signifies mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional trained to assist companies in the areas of IS audit process, IT governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity preparedness.

Find out additional details concerning Progent's CISA Professional Expertise.

CRISC-certified Risk Management Experts
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and support IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially assessing your IS control design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for defining company-wide security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security experts. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited security consultant possesses the skills needed to deliver services in key categories of network, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the security services addressed under GIAC certification programs such as auditing security systems, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Help
If your business is located in Charlotte North Carolina and you're trying to find cybersecurity support services, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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