Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote assistance with computer security problems, companies in Cincinnati Ohio can find expert expertise from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote support consultants are available to provide fast and affordable assistance with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's security consultants are certified to support environments based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad array of consulting services addresses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, secure network design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's top security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides remote security assistance on a per-minute model with no minimum call duration and without additional fees for sign-up or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs under control and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes result in major expenses.

We've Been Hacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your network is currently fighting a network security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Support to see how to receive immediate aid. Progent maintains a pool of certified network security specialists who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have planned beforehand for a security breech, the step-by-step incident response procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Security Services
Coordinating computer security as well as preparedness for recovering vital information and systems after a security breach requires an on-going effort involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's security experts can help your organization at any level in your efforts to safeguard your IT system, ranging from security assessments to creating a complete security strategy. Important technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Secure Networks
Any business ought to develop a carefully considered security strategy that includes both preventive and responsive steps. The proactive plan is a set of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The reactive plan defines activities to help security personnel to assess the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and restore business activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can install auditing software, define and build a secure computer infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies that will enhance the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to configure a firewall, design protected online and mobile access to e-mail and data, and install an effective VPN.

If your company is looking for an economical option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options feature automated remote system tracking and fast response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are in question, or have stopped working following a security attack. Progent can show you how to determine the losses resulting from the assault, restore normal business operations, and recover data lost as a result of the event. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a thorough forensic evaluation by examining activity logs and using other advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security problems reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to propose efficient ways to prevent or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct an information system victimized by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network monitoring and 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. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to automate the entire malware attack lifecycle including blocking, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that require urgent action. Progent can also help you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and allows fast recovery of vital files, applications and VMs that have become lost or corrupted as a result of component failures, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound 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 information security vendors to deliver centralized management and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays within your corporate firewall. For more details, see 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 key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware solution without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Learn more 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 information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time thrown away 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 like recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's veteran consultants offer world-class consulting support in key facets of network protection including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of automatic network tests to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with testing tools and can help you to analyze assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's security consultants also provide web application validation and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key industry security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile devices. Learn more details about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's entire family of security and VPN solutions including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Get additional information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a broad range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size advanced consulting for security products from other popular firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Corp Help

CISM Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the fundamental skills and international standards of service that information security professionals are required to master. It provides executive management the confidence that those who have been awarded their accreditation possess the background and knowledge to offer efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to help your organization in critical security disciplines such as data protection governance, risk assessment, data protection process management, and crisis response support.

Get the details about Progent's CISM Security Support Expertise.

CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP status as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included within CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security architecture and models, connection control systems, applications development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of rigorous testing and significant hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Learn more details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected Network Infrastructure Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with 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 security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a prestigious qualification that represents expertise in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that consultants pass an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security engineer trained to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit process, information technology administration, network assets and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity planning.

Find out the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Services.

CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk management expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially assessing your IS control design and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for designing company-wide security policies.

Get more information about Progent's CRISC Network Risk Management Services.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified security consultant has the knowledge needed to deliver services in vital categories of network, information, and application program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the help of certified security engineers for all of the network security capabilities covered within GIAC accreditation topics such as auditing perimeters, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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

Contact Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your business is situated in Cincinnati Ohio and you're looking for computer security 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 Cincinnati and the surrounding metro areas.