Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote help with data security issues, companies in Chesapeake Virginia can find expert troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote support staff is available to provide fast and economical assistance with security crises that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's security consultants are certified to support environments based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services covers firewall expertise, email security, protected system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has earned the world's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and CISSP.

Progent provides online security help on a by-the-minute basis without minimum times and without extra charges for sign-up or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses under control and avoids scenarios where quick fixes turn into big charges.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do?
If your network is currently faced with a security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Network Support to find out how to get fast help. Progent maintains a team of certified network security specialists who can provide online and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future exploits.

For organizations that have prepared beforehand for a security breech, the step-by-step incident handling model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security penetration.

Introduction to Security Services
Coordinating network protection as well as preparation for recovering vital data and functions after a security breach demands a continual effort that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's security experts can help your business at whatever level in your attempt to protect your IT network, from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Important technologies covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Attacks.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Any company should have a carefully considered security plan that includes both preventive and reactive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines activities to assist security staff to inventory the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and revive network functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning software, define and build a safe IT infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, design safe offsite connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an efficient VPN.

If you are looking for an affordable way for jobbing out your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options feature non-stop online system tracking and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in restoring networks and servers that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed as a result of a security breach. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage caused by the assault, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover data compromised as a result of the breach. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to recommend effective strategies to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of any size a versatile and cost-effective solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT system. Besides optimizing the protection and functionality of your IT environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your IT staff to focus on line-of-business projects and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable 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 facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior analysis technology to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete malware attack progression including protection, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with leading backup product companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of subscription-based offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services automate and track your backup processes and enable non-disruptive backup and fast recovery of critical files, apps, system images, plus virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets your business avoid data loss resulting from equipment breakdown, natural disasters, fire, malware such as ransomware, user error, ill-intentioned insiders, or software bugs. Managed backup services available in the ProSight DPS portfolio include ProSight Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Total Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to identify which of these fully managed services are best suited for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security vendors to deliver centralized control and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo authentication services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity verification with iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, whenever you log into a protected application and enter your password you are requested to confirm who you are on a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this added form of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate multiple validation devices. For details about Duo identity validation services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for telecommuters.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware solution without a lengthy and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Find out 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 allows you to create, update, retrieve and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can save up to half of time spent searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require the instant you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified engineers offer world-class consulting support in key areas of IT security including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic network scans to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar tools and can assist your company to analyze assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also offer web software testing and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important worldwide security specifications such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment plus portable devices. Find out the details concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Get additional details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a broad range of network security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size expert consulting for products from other major firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the core competencies and worldwide standards of service that information security managers are required to master. CISM provides business management the confidence that those who have earned their CISM possess the experience and knowledge to offer efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to assist your enterprise in key security areas including data protection governance, vulnerability assessment, data security program control, and incident response support.

Get additional details about Progent's CISM Security Support Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered within CISSP include security management practices, security design and test systems, connection control methodology, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have been awarded ISSAP certification after thorough testing and significant experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Get the details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected IT Architecture Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the services associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a recognized achievement that signifies mastery in information system security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to assist companies in the areas of information systems audit process, information technology governance, systems and architecture planned useful life, information technology support, protecting information assets, and business continuity preparedness.

Find out more information about Progent's CISA Consulting Services.

CRISC Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and carry out a business continuity plan that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management expertise is a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially assessing your IS control mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of computer security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified security consultant has the skills appropriate to provide services in vital areas of system, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified professionals for all of the security capabilities addressed under GIAC certification topics including auditing perimeters, incident response, traffic analysis, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Help
If your organization is located in Chesapeake Virginia and you're looking for computer security consulting, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Hampton Roads Area.