Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote help with network security issues, businesses in Chattanooga Tennessee can find expert expertise from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online support staff is available to provide effective and affordable help with security issues that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's security engineers are premier to support environments based on Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services addresses firewall technology, email security, protected system design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the industry's top security credentials including CISM and ISSAP.

Progent offers online security support on a per-minute model without minimum call duration and without additional fees for sign-up or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where quick fixes result in big bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
If you are currently fighting a security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Online Computer Help to learn how to get fast help. Progent maintains a team of veteran network security specialists who offer remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to protect against future attacks.

For organizations who have prepared carefully for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack handling model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of handling a major security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Managing data protection plus preparedness for restoring critical information and functions after a security breach requires a continual program that entails an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified security experts can assist your business at any level in your attempt to guard your information network, ranging from security audits to creating a complete security strategy. Important areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Borne Threats.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Every organization should develop a thoroughly considered security plan that includes both proactive and responsive steps. The proactive strategy is a set of precautions that helps to reduce security gaps. The reactive strategy specifies activities to assist security personnel to assess the damage caused by an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and restore network activity as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your business processes. Progent can configure auditing software, define and implement a secure IT architecture, and propose procedures and policies that will optimize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design safe remote access to email and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an economical way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages feature non-stop remote system monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud-based resources and that comply with regulatory security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering networks and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have ceased to function as a result of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the breach, restore normal functions, and retrieve data compromised owing to the event. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a comprehensive forensic analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing other advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to recommend effective measures to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild a network damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight line of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete malware attack lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer economical in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables fast recovery of critical files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted due to component failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can provide advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the technology of leading information security companies to provide web-based management and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks most threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

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 business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting solution without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, find and protect data about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time spent trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need when you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants can provide unique support in vital areas of computer protection including:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with information risk auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of automatic network tests to reveal possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with these utilities and can help you to understand audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web application testing and can perform expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key worldwide security standards such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Read additional details about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's complete family of protection and VPN technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Learn more information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a broad range of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of any size advanced consulting for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Corp Help

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
CISM defines the fundamental competencies and international benchmarks of service that information technology security managers are expected to achieve. It offers executive management the confidence that consultants who have earned their certification possess the background and knowledge to offer efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to assist your organization in critical security areas such as information protection governance, vulnerability assessment, information protection program management, and crisis handling support.

Find out more information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included within CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and test systems, connection permission systems, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Read additional information about Progent's CISSP Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification as a result of thorough examination and extensive hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth understanding of access management mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Find out more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure IT Architecture Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the services expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your organization to follow modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security 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 (CISA) Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is an important achievement that represents expertise in IS security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo an extensive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer able to help businesses in the fields of IS audit process, IT governance, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT service delivery, protecting information resources, and business continuity planning.

Read additional details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Services.

CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and execute a workplace continuity strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively auditing your IS management design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for implementing security policies and procedures.

Learn additional information about Progent's CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Services.

GIAC Support Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to provide services in key categories of network, information, and software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations around the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified professionals for all of the network security services covered within GIAC accreditation programs including assessing perimeters, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your business is situated in Chattanooga Tennessee and you're trying to find cybersecurity consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the state of Tennessee.