Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate online help with computer security problems, companies in Chesapeake Virginia can find expert expertise by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support consultants are available to provide effective and economical assistance with security issues that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to provide help for environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services covers firewall technology, email security, protected network design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including Global Information Assurance Certification and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides online security assistance on a per-minute model with no minimum call duration and no additional charges for setup or after hours service. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where simple fixes entail major charges.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Should We Do?
If your business is now fighting a security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Support to find out how to receive immediate aid. Progent has a pool of seasoned network security experts who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to protect against future exploits.

For companies that have prepared carefully for being hacked, the step-by-step incident handling model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of handling a serious security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Managing network protection plus preparation for restoring vital information and functions following an attack demands a continual effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's security consultants can assist your business at whatever level in your attempt to safeguard your IT network, from security audits to designing a complete security strategy. Important areas covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Attacks.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Any organization ought to develop a carefully considered security plan that includes both preventive and responsive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies procedures to assist security staff to inventory the damage caused by a breach, remediate the damage, document the event, and revive network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your company processes. Progent can install auditing utilities, create and implement a safe computer infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy secure online and mobile connectivity to email and information, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an affordable option for jobbing out your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options feature automated online system monitoring and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud resources and that are compliant with government data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in restoring systems and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have failed following a security penetration. Progent can show you how to determine the damage resulting from the attack, restore normal functions, and retrieve information compromised owing to the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a thorough forensic evaluation by examining event logs and using a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to recommend efficient ways to prevent or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct an environment compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior analysis technology to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade legacy signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the entire threat progression including blocking, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent can also help you to install and test a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack like 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
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and enables rapid recovery of vital data, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide world-class expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of leading data security companies to provide centralized management and comprehensive protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. 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 or mid-size business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hosting environment without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Find out more 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, find and safeguard information about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need the instant you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants offer world-class consulting support in vital facets of computer security such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic network tests to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these utilities and can help your company to analyze audit results and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web application validation and can perform thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important global security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Read the details about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out additional information concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
As well as supporting a wide array of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes expert support for products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager defines the fundamental competencies and international benchmarks of performance that computer security professionals are expected to master. It provides business management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their accreditation have the experience and skill to offer effective security management and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to assist your enterprise in vital security areas including information protection governance, vulnerability assessment, information protection program management, and crisis handling management.

Read more details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification through verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and models, access permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Read more information concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP status following rigorous testing and significant hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Read additional information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure System Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your organization to utilize modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic security models that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

Learn the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise
The CISA accreditation is an important achievement that signifies mastery in network security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer trained to assist companies in the areas of IS audit process, information technology enforcement, systems and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Read more information concerning Progent's CISA Support Services.

CRISC Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and support IS controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a business continuity plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk management services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively assessing your IT control mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for defining security policies.

Get the details about Progent's CRISC Risk Management Consulting.

GIAC Support Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified security consultant has the knowledge appropriate to provide services in important categories of system, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and institutions around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the support of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the security services covered under GIAC certification topics such as assessing IT infrastructure, incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your organization is situated in Chesapeake Virginia and you're looking for cybersecurity consulting expertise, 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.