Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online help with computer security issues, companies in Chesapeake Virginia can find world-class expertise by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote support consultants are ready to offer fast and low-cost help with security issues that threaten the productivity of your network. Progent's security engineers are premier to provide help for systems powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services addresses firewall configuration, email security, protected network architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's top security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor and CISSP.

Progent offers remote security assistance on a by-the-minute model without minimum call duration and no additional charges for setup or after hours service. By charging per minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where quick solutions turn into major charges.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Should We Do?
If your network is now experiencing a network security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Help to find out how to receive immediate aid. Progent maintains a team of veteran cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For companies who have planned carefully for a security breech, the step-by-step incident response procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of handling a major security incident.

Overview of Security Support Services
Coordinating data security plus preparedness for restoring critical information and functions after an attack requires a continual process that entails an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified engineers can help your organization at whatever level in your attempt to secure your IT network, ranging from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Key areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Every organization ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both preventive and reactive elements. The proactive strategy is a set of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies procedures to assist IT personnel to inventory the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and revive network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your company operations. Progent can configure auditing utilities, create and execute a secure network infrastructure, and propose processes and policies to enhance the safety of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected offsite access to email and data, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services feature automated remote server tracking and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud resources and that are compliant with government data security requirements. (Find out 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 Platform planning and integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in restoring networks and devices that have been compromised, are suspect, or have stopped working following a security breach. Progent can show you how to determine the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to normal functions, and recover data lost owing to the attack. Progent's security specialists can also perform a thorough forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and utilizing other proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to recommend efficient ways to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire malware attack lifecycle including filtering, identification, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and allows rapid restoration of critical data, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS 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 a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can assist you to recover your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

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 leading data security vendors to provide web-based control and world-class security for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. 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 decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant 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 owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can save as much as half of time wasted searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require when you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified security engineers can provide world-class specialized help in key areas of IT security such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic network tests to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has broad skills with scanning tools and can assist your company to analyze audit results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web software validation and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important global security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless appliances plus portable devices. Learn the details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth technical services for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network technologies including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, protected broadband and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Read more details concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a wide array of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size top-level consulting for security products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the core competencies and international standards of service that computer security managers are required to master. CISM provides executive management the confidence that those who have been awarded their accreditation have the background and skill to offer effective security management and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to help your enterprise in critical security areas such as information protection governance, vulnerability assessment, data protection program control, and crisis response management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include security management procedures, security architecture and test systems, connection control methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of rigorous testing and significant experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Get more information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure IT Architecture Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your organization to follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

Find out the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a recognized achievement that signifies mastery in IS security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security consultant able to help companies in the fields of IS audit services, information technology governance, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and carry out a workplace continuity plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially evaluating your IT control design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

Learn additional details concerning Progent's CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Consulting.

Global Information Assurance Certification Support Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security engineers. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited professional possesses the knowledge needed to deliver services in vital categories of system, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the support of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the security services addressed under GIAC accreditation topics such as assessing networks, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your organization is situated in Chesapeake Virginia and you're looking for computer security consulting, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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