Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online help with data security issues, companies in Charlotte North Carolina can find expert troubleshooting from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are ready to provide efficient and low-cost assistance with security problems that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to support environments powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad array of consulting services covers firewall expertise, email security, protected system design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has earned the industry's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides remote security expertise on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum minutes and no additional fees for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses low and avoids situations where simple solutions entail big charges.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do Now?
If you are currently faced with a network security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Online Computer Support to find out how to get fast aid. Progent has a team of seasoned cybersecurity experts who offer remote and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future attacks.

For organizations who have planned carefully for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack handling model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of responding to a serious security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Managing data security plus staying ready for restoring critical information and systems after an attack demands an on-going effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified professionals can help your organization at all levels in your attempt to guard your IT network, from security audits to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Key areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.

Designing and Implementing Secure Networks
Every company ought to have a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive elements. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines procedures to assist IT personnel to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore business functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your company operations. Progent can install scanning utilities, define and build a secure computer architecture, and recommend processes and policies to enhance the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy safe remote connectivity to email and information, and configure an effective VPN.

If your company is looking for an affordable way for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages include non-stop remote network monitoring and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud infrastructure and that comply with regulatory security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in recovering systems and devices that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function following a security attack. Progent can show you how to assess the damage caused by the attack, return your company to normal business operations, and recover information compromised as a result of the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a comprehensive failure analysis by going over activity logs and using a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest effective ways to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the services of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct an IT network victimized by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware removal and recovery services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates next generation behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack lifecycle including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables fast restoration of critical files, apps and VMs that have become lost or corrupted due to component failures, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide advanced support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your critical information. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the technology of top data security vendors to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, 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 or mid-size organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hosting solution without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Find out more details 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 makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time wasted trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require when you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer world-class support in key facets of computer protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive system scans to uncover potential security problems. Progent has extensive experience with these and similar tools and can help your company to understand audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web software testing and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with key global security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment plus portable devices. Find out additional details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out the details about Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a broad array of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes top-level engineering services for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Help

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the basic competencies and international benchmarks of performance that information technology security managers are expected to achieve. It provides executive management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their accreditation possess the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to assist your organization in critical security areas such as data protection governance, risk assessment, information security program control, and crisis handling management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have earned CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered within CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and models, connection permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Learn more information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have been awarded ISSAP status after rigorous testing and extensive experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive understanding of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your business with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services
The CISA credential is an important qualification that indicates expertise in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that consultants pass a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security engineer able to help businesses in the fields of IS audit services, IT governance, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, protecting information assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially evaluating your IT control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for defining company-wide security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security experts. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills appropriate to provide support in critical areas of network, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified consultants for any of the network security services addressed within GIAC accreditation topics including assessing IT infrastructure, incident response, traffic analysis, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your business is located in Charlotte North Carolina and you want cybersecurity consulting expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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