For fast online assistance with data security issues, companies in Chesapeake, VA, can find expert support by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support staff is available to offer efficient and affordable assistance with security problems that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's security engineers are premier to provide help for systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of services addresses firewall technology, email security, secure network architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the industry's most advanced security accreditations including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers remote security support on a by-the-minute model without minimum minutes and no extra charges for setup or off-hour support. By charging per minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and avoids situations where quick fixes entail big charges.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
Network Security Consulting FirmIn case you are now experiencing a security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Support to see how to get immediate assistance. Progent has a team of veteran cybersecurity experts who offer online and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For companies that have planned carefully for an attack, the formal incident handling procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of responding to a serious security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating network protection plus preparedness for restoring critical data and functions after a security breach requires a continual program that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified professionals can help your business at any level in your attempt to safeguard your information system, ranging from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security plan. Key technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Threats.

Planning and Building Protected Networks
Any company should develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and reactive steps. The proactive strategy is a set of precautions that works to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan defines procedures to assist IT staff to inventory the damage caused by an attack, remediate the damage, document the experience, and revive network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your business processes. Progent can install auditing utilities, create and build a secure computer infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to enhance the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to configure a firewall, design secure online and mobile access to email and information, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an affordable way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options include automated remote network 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 incorporate local and cloud resources and that are compliant with regulatory data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides expertise in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have failed following a security attack. Progent can show you how to determine the damage resulting from the breach, restore ordinary business operations, and recover data compromised as a result of the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a thorough forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and utilizing a variety of advanced assessment techniques. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to propose effective ways to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of network monitoring and management 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 and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including protection, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent can also help you to install and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and allows rapid restoration of vital data, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can provide advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards such as HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can help you to recover your critical data. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the technology of top information security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, see 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 organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected 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 client owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, retrieve and protect information related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time spent trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data 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 engineers offer world-class support in vital areas of computer security including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive network tests to uncover possible security problems. Progent has broad skills with testing utilities and can assist you to understand assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web software testing and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important worldwide security specifications such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security covering stationary wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Learn additional information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth consulting services for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected broadband and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out additional information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to supporting a broad range of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes advanced engineering services for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

Stealth Penetration Testing Consulting
Unannounced intrusion checking is a vital method for allowing companies to determine how exposed their IT environments are to potential threats by showing how effectively network protection policies and mechanisms stand up to authorized but unpublicized intrusion attempts launched by seasoned security engineers utilizing the latest hacking methods. Find out additional information about Progent's Penetration Testing Services.

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Engineers for Chesapeake, VirginiaCertified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the basic skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that information security professionals are expected to master. CISM offers business management the confidence that those who have been awarded their accreditation have the background and skill to provide effective security administration and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM consultant to help your organization in critical security areas such as information protection governance, risk management, information security program control, and crisis handling management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
CISSP Premier System Security Experts for Chesapeake, VirginiaProgent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP status official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered within CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and models, connection control systems, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Read the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
CISSP Information Systems Security Architecture Professionals for Chesapeake, VirginiaProgent's ISSAP Certified security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification following rigorous testing and significant hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all phases of architecture security.

Read the details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected System Architecture Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
CISSP-ISSEP certified Network Security ExpertsCybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your organization to utilize modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose 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.

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
Certified Information Systems Auditor Experts for Chesapeake, VirginiaThe Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious achievement that signifies mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has consultants pass a comprehensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security audit professional able to help companies in the areas of IS audit process, information technology administration, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, protecting information assets, and business continuity preparedness.

Get additional details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Expertise.

CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Consultants
CRISC Network Risk Experts for Chesapeake, VirginiaThe Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially assessing your IS management design and with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
Network Security Engineers with GIAC Certification for Chesapeake, VirginiaGIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver support in key areas of network, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified consultants for all of the network security capabilities covered under GIAC certification topics including auditing perimeters, incident response, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

Learn more details about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Depend on Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your organization is situated in Chesapeake or elsewhere in Virginia and you're trying to find cybersecurity consulting expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.