Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate online assistance with computer security problems, companies in Chesapeake Virginia have access to expert expertise from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are ready to offer fast and low-cost assistance with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's security engineers are certified to support environments powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services encompasses firewall configuration, email security, secure system architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's top security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides remote security expertise on a by-the-minute model without minimum minutes and without extra charges for sign-up or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where quick fixes entail big charges.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do?
In case your business is now faced with a security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Help to learn how to get fast help. Progent has a pool of certified network security specialists who offer remote and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies who have prepared in advance for being hacked, the formal incident handling procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security incident.

Overview of Security Expertise
Coordinating network security plus preparedness for recovering vital information and functions following a security breach demands a continual process that entails an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified security experts can assist your organization at any level in your attempt to safeguard your information system, ranging from security audits to creating a complete security plan. Key areas supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Environments
Any company ought to develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and reactive activity. The proactive plan is a set of precautions that works to reduce security gaps. The reactive plan specifies activities to assist IT personnel to evaluate the losses resulting from a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and revive network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can set up auditing software, create and implement a safe IT infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies that will maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy protected remote access to e-mail and information, and install an efficient VPN.

If you are interested in an affordable way for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options include non-stop remote server monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in recovering networks and servers that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working because of a security penetration. Progent can help determine the damage caused by the breach, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve data compromised owing to the event. Progent's security specialists can also perform a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over activity logs and utilizing other proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to recommend efficient measures to avoid or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of all sizes a flexible and affordable solution for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking updates to your ever-evolving information system. Besides maximizing the protection and reliability of your computer network, Progent's patch management services allow your in-house IT staff to focus on line-of-business initiatives and activities that deliver the highest business value from your network. Read more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable 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 facets of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring 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 multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alerts, device management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that require urgent attention. Progent can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and allows fast recovery of vital data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted due to hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can deliver advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can help you to recover your critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading information security companies to provide web-based control and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware solution 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 details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT 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 protect data related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time spent looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need when you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants offer world-class consulting support in key areas of network protection including:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with security auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive system scans to reveal potential security holes. Progent has extensive experience with these and similar utilities and can help you to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web application testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important worldwide security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security covering stationary wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Get additional details concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class consulting services for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Read the details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
As well as being expert in a wide range of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes expert engineering services for solutions from other popular firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Help

CISM Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the fundamental competencies and international benchmarks of performance that information security professionals are expected to master. It provides business management the confidence that those who have been awarded their accreditation have the background and knowledge to offer effective security management and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to assist your organization in vital security disciplines such as data protection governance, risk management, information protection program management, and crisis handling management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity 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 IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and test systems, connection control methodology, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation after thorough testing and extensive experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your organization to follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that indicates expertise in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security engineer trained to assist companies in the areas of IS audit process, IT governance, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and maintain information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively evaluating your IT management design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for designing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited professional possesses the skills appropriate to deliver support in vital areas of system, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the support of certified consultants for any of the security disciplines addressed within GIAC accreditation topics including assessing networks, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Help
If your business is situated in Chesapeake Virginia and you want network security help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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