Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote assistance with data security problems, businesses in Charlotte, NC, have access to expert expertise by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are available to provide efficient and affordable assistance with security problems that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to support environments based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services addresses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, secure network architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has earned the industry's top security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and ISSAP.

Progent offers remote security support services on a by-the-minute basis without minimum times and no extra charges for setup or after hours support. By charging per minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps costs under control and avoids situations where simple solutions entail major bills.

We've Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
If your network is now experiencing a security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Support to see how to get fast aid. Progent maintains a team of seasoned network security experts who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future exploits.

For businesses who have prepared carefully for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response model promoted by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security attack.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Coordinating network protection plus planning for recovering critical information and systems following a security breach requires a continual effort that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified professionals can help your business at all levels in your efforts to secure your IT system, from security evaluation to creating a complete security plan. Important technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Every company ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy defines procedures to assist IT staff to inventory the losses resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the event, and revive network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your business operations. Progent can set up scanning utilities, define and implement a secure network architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to set up a firewall, deploy secure offsite connectivity to email and information, and configure an efficient VPN.

If you are looking for an economical way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services feature continual online network tracking and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government data security standards. (Learn 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.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent offers skill in restoring systems and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have failed as a result of a security attack. Progent can show you how to determine the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to normal functions, and recover information lost owing to the assault. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a comprehensive forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your downtime and permits Progent to suggest effective measures to avoid or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates next generation behavior analysis technology to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the complete malware attack progression including filtering, detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables fast restoration of critical data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images/, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory standards like HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading data security companies to provide web-based control and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting solution without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. Find out 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 allows you to create, maintain, find and protect data related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time thrown away trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require when you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers offer world-class consulting support in vital facets of IT protection including:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic network tests to identify potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these tools and can assist you to analyze audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web application validation and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major worldwide security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including in-place wireless appliances as well as mobile devices. Read the details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth consulting services for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network technologies including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Read additional information concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
As well as supporting a wide range of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size expert support for security products from other popular firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWALL Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the fundamental competencies and international standards of service that IT security professionals are expected to achieve. CISM offers executive management the confidence that those who have been awarded their certification possess the experience and skill to provide effective security management and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM consultant to assist your enterprise in critical security disciplines including data protection governance, risk management, data protection program management, and incident handling support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security design and test systems, access permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification after thorough testing and substantial experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants have in-depth knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Learn additional information about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure Network Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a prestigious qualification that signifies mastery in IS security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo a comprehensive test overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security professional trained to assist companies in the fields of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, protecting information assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and maintain IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially evaluating your IT control design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security engineers. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited security consultant possesses the skills appropriate to deliver services in critical categories of system, information, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the network security capabilities addressed under GIAC certification programs including assessing security systems, 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 Expertise
If your company is situated in Charlotte or elsewhere in North Carolina and you're trying to find cybersecurity expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.