Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate remote assistance with network security problems, businesses in Cincinnati Ohio can find expert support from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote support staff is available to offer effective and economical help with security crises that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to provide help for environments powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of consulting services encompasses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure system architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has earned the industry's most advanced security credentials including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides remote security assistance on a per-minute basis without minimum minutes and no additional fees for setup or after hours service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's billing model keeps costs low and eliminates scenarios where quick fixes turn into big charges.

We've Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
If your network is now experiencing a security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Help to see how to receive immediate help. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned network security experts who can provide online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For businesses that have planned beforehand for being hacked, the formal post-attack response model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of responding to a major security penetration.

Introduction to Security Services
Coordinating computer protection plus staying ready for recovering vital data and systems following a security breach demands a continual process involving a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can help your organization at all levels in your attempt to protect your IT network, from security audits to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Key areas supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Secure Networks
Any business ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both preventive and responsive activity. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to help security personnel to evaluate the damage resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, document the experience, and restore network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning utilities, create and implement a safe IT infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy secure remote connectivity to e-mail and data, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If you are looking for an affordable way for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages include non-stop remote system monitoring and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with government data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in restoring systems and computers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have ceased to function because of a security attack. Progent can help evaluate the losses resulting from the breach, restore normal functions, and recover information lost as a result of the breach. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough failure evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of advanced assessment techniques. Progent's background with security problems reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to propose efficient ways to prevent or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware removal and restoration services.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management offer organizations of any size a flexible and affordable solution for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT system. Besides optimizing the protection and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT team to concentrate on line-of-business initiatives and tasks that deliver the highest business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of outsourced network management 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 and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes next generation behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete threat progression including filtering, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include single-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 endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of vital files, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can assist you to restore your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top data security vendors to provide web-based control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, find and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time wasted looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require when you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified engineers can provide world-class specialized help in key areas of network protection including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security auditing utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a set of automatic network scans to reveal possible security holes. Progent has broad experience with these utilities and can assist you to understand audit results and react appropriately. Progent's security consultants also offer web application testing and can perform expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key global security specifications including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering in-place wireless appliances plus mobile devices. Learn more details about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Read additional details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
In addition to being expert in a wide range of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes advanced engineering services for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Consulting
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the fundamental competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that information technology security professionals are expected to achieve. It provides executive management the confidence that those who have been awarded their accreditation have the experience and knowledge to offer efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM expert to help your enterprise in vital security disciplines such as data protection governance, risk management, information security process management, and incident response support.

Read the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP status as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in an international standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security architecture and models, access permission systems, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Read additional information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification following rigorous examination and significant experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Read additional information about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure Network Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations with the services 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 consultant to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a recognized qualification that indicates expertise in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has consultants pass an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security audit professional able to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, IT administration, systems and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and support IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively assessing your IT management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

Get more information about Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Expertise.

Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills needed to deliver support in critical categories of system, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions all over the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the expertise of certified consultants for all of the network security services addressed within GIAC certification programs such as assessing security systems, security incident response, intrusion detection, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Support
If your organization is situated in Cincinnati Ohio and you're looking for computer security consulting expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout Cincinnati and the surrounding metro areas.