Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate remote help with data security issues, companies in Cincinnati, OH, can find expert troubleshooting from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are available to offer efficient and low-cost assistance with security issues that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to provide help for environments based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad array of services addresses firewall expertise, email security, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security certifications including GIAC and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides online security support services on a per-minute model with no minimum call duration and without additional fees for sign-up or after hours support. By billing per minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses under control and eliminates situations where simple solutions turn into major expenses.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
If you are now experiencing a security crisis, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Support to see how to get fast help. Progent maintains a pool of veteran network security experts who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future attacks.

For companies that have planned in advance for a security breech, the step-by-step post-attack handling model outlined by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of handling a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Managing data protection as well as planning for restoring critical information and functions after an attack demands an on-going program involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified professionals can support your business at all levels in your efforts to safeguard your information network, ranging from security assessments to creating a complete security plan. Important technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Protected Environments
Any business should develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both proactive and reactive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy specifies procedures to help security personnel to inventory the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can configure scanning utilities, define and build a secure IT infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies that will maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to configure a firewall, design safe online and mobile connectivity to email and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options include non-stop remote network monitoring and fast response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government security standards. (Learn 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 planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and servers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function as a result of a security attack. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage resulting from the attack, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the assault. Progent's certified specialists can also oversee a thorough failure evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing other proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your downtime and permits Progent to recommend effective strategies to prevent or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct a network damaged by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight series 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. 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) solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior analysis technology to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to address the entire threat lifecycle including blocking, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection regulations. 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 require urgent attention. Progent can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and allows fast recovery of critical files, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FINRA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to recover your critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of leading information security vendors to deliver centralized management and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization 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 network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware environment without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, find and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time wasted looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require when you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants offer unique expertise in vital facets of network protection including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of automatic network scans to uncover possible security problems. Progent has broad skills with testing utilities and can assist you to analyze audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also offer web application testing and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major industry security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including in-place wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Read more details about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical support for Cisco's complete range of protection and VPN solutions including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Get more details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
As well as supporting a broad range of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size expert engineering services for security products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager defines the fundamental skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that computer security managers are required to master. CISM offers executive management the assurance that those who have been awarded their accreditation have the experience and knowledge to provide effective security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to help your enterprise in vital security disciplines including information security governance, vulnerability management, data protection program management, and incident response support.

Learn the details concerning Progent's CISM Security Support Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security design and test systems, access control methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification following rigorous testing and substantial experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Find out more details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure System Infrastructure Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a recognized achievement that represents mastery in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has candidates pass an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer trained to help companies in the areas of information systems audit services, IT enforcement, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, safeguarding data assets, and business continuity planning.

Learn more details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Expertise.

CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and execute a business continuity strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively auditing your IS management design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing security policies and procedures.

Learn the details about Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Services.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of computer security experts. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge needed to provide support in vital categories of network, data, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the expertise of certified security engineers for any of the network security services addressed under GIAC accreditation topics including assessing perimeters, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your organization is located in Cincinnati or anywhere in Ohio and you're trying to find cybersecurity engineering help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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