Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote help with computer security issues, businesses in Chesapeake Virginia have access to world-class support from Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service staff is available to offer efficient and low-cost assistance with security issues that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's security consultants are certified to provide help for systems based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services addresses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security credentials including GIAC and CISSP.

Progent provides online security support on a by-the-minute model with no minimum times and without additional fees for sign-up or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions result in big expenses.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
If your network is now faced with a network security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Support to see how to receive immediate aid. Progent maintains a pool of veteran cybersecurity specialists who can provide online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For companies who have planned carefully for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a major security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Managing data protection plus staying ready for restoring vital information and systems after an attack requires an on-going process that entails an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security consultants can assist your business at whatever level in your efforts to protect your information system, from security audits to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Some technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Any company ought to develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive and reactive activity. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that helps to minimize security gaps. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to assist IT staff to assess the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your business operations. Progent can install auditing utilities, define and build a safe computer infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to enhance the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to configure a firewall, design secure remote access to e-mail and information, and install an effective virtual private network.

If you are interested in an economical way for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages include non-stop remote server monitoring and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud-based resources and that comply with government data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering systems and computers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have stopped working because of a security attack. Progent can help determine the losses resulting from the assault, restore normal functions, and recover data lost owing to the event. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a comprehensive failure analysis by examining event logs and using a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to recommend efficient measures to prevent or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an environment compromised by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight series 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 offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to manage the entire malware attack lifecycle including filtering, detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features 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 recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist you to install and verify a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and enables rapid recovery of vital data, applications and VMs that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your business-critical information. Learn 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 and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top information security companies to provide centralized management and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware solution without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting service. 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 a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, retrieve and protect information about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save up to half of time wasted trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require when you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants offer world-class support in vital facets of network protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with security evaluation tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a set of comprehensive system scans to identify potential security gaps. Progent has broad skills with testing utilities and can help you to analyze audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web application validation and can perform thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major industry security specifications such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment plus portable devices. Get additional details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out additional details concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
As well as supporting a broad range of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes advanced support for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Engineering Services

CISM Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic competencies and international standards of performance that IT security managers are required to achieve. CISM offers business management the confidence that those who have earned their CISM possess the experience and skill to provide effective security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to help your organization in critical security areas such as data security governance, risk management, data protection process control, and crisis handling support.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of verified experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included under CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and test systems, connection control systems, software development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Find out more details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants have earned ISSAP accreditation following rigorous examination and significant hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive understanding of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Read the details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 security analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a prestigious qualification that represents expertise in IS security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential has consultants pass an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security consultant trained to help companies in the fields of IS audit services, IT administration, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity preparedness.

Find out more details concerning Progent's CISA Professional Services.

CRISC Risk Management Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially auditing your IT management mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for designing company-wide security policies.

Find out additional information about Progent's CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Consulting.

GIAC Support Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security engineers. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge appropriate to provide support in critical areas of system, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the expertise of certified security engineers for all of the security disciplines addressed within GIAC accreditation programs including auditing security systems, incident response, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your company is situated in Chesapeake Virginia and you're looking for computer security engineering help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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