Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast online help with network security issues, companies in Cincinnati Ohio have access to expert troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are available to offer fast and low-cost help with security crises that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to support environments powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email security, protected system architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support team has earned the world's most advanced security certifications including Global Information Assurance Certification and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides online security support services on a by-the-minute model without minimum minutes and without extra fees for sign-up or off-hour support. By billing per minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's billing structure keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where quick fixes result in major bills.

We've Been Attacked: What Should We Do Now?
In case you are now fighting a security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Computer Help to learn how to receive immediate help. Progent has a team of veteran cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have prepared in advance for being hacked, the formal post-attack handling procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Managing network security as well as preparedness for restoring critical information and systems after a security breach demands a continual program involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security engineers can help your organization at whatever level in your efforts to protect your IT system, ranging from security audits to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Some technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Every organization should develop a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive activity. The proactive strategy is a set of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The reactive strategy specifies procedures to help security staff to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, remediate the damage, record the event, and revive network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your business operations. Progent can install scanning software, create and execute a secure IT infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy protected remote access to e-mail and data, and configure an effective VPN.

If your company is looking for an affordable option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services include automated remote system monitoring and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government and industry security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in restoring networks and computers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have ceased to function as a result of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to assess the damage caused by the breach, restore normal functions, and recover information lost as a result of the assault. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a thorough failure evaluation by examining activity logs and using a variety of proven assessment tools. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to propose efficient ways to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an information system damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Work-from-Home Security Consulting
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members typically utilize their personal computers and often operate in a unsecured physical space. This multiplies their susceptibility to cyber attacks and calls for careful configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, thorough user training, and the creation of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's veteran group of telecommuter support consultants can help your business to plan, implement and maintain a compliant cybersecurity solution that protects vital IT assets in networks that include at-home workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of any size a versatile and cost-effective alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking updates to your ever-evolving IT network. Besides optimizing the protection and reliability of your computer network, Progent's patch management services free up time for your IT staff to concentrate on more strategic initiatives and tasks that derive the highest business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight line of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete malware attack progression including protection, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's unique needs and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require urgent action. Progent can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with leading backup/restore product companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a family of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS products manage and track your data backup operations and enable transparent backup and fast restoration of critical files, applications, system images, plus virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets your business protect against data loss caused by hardware breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware like ransomware, user error, malicious employees, or application bugs. Managed backup services in the ProSight DPS portfolio include ProSight Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Total Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent expert can help you to determine which of these managed services are best suited for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the infrastructure of top information security vendors to deliver web-based management and comprehensive protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure 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, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo MFA service plans utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected application and give your password you are asked to verify who you are via a unit that only you have and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of devices can be utilized as this added form of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may designate multiple verification devices. To find out more about Duo identity validation services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting solution without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single 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 makes it easy to capture, maintain, find and protect data about your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time thrown away trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you�re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require as soon as you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers offer unique expertise in vital facets of IT security including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security auditing utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive network tests to identify potential security holes. Progent has broad skills with these and similar utilities and can help your company to understand audit results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web application validation and can conduct expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key worldwide security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment plus portable devices. Find out the details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth consulting support for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network technologies including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Learn additional information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Help.

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

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager defines the fundamental competencies and international standards of performance that information technology security professionals are expected to master. CISM provides business management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their CISM possess the background and skill to provide efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to assist your enterprise in critical security disciplines such as data protection governance, vulnerability management, data protection process management, and crisis handling management.

Find out more information concerning Progent's CISM Security Consulting Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation through verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included within CISSP include security management practices, security design and models, access permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants have earned ISSAP certification as a result of rigorous examination and significant experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants have in-depth knowledge of access management systems and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
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 can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all critical system functions, define efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that signifies mastery in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has candidates undergo a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to assist companies in the fields of IS audit process, information technology governance, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT support, protecting information assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and maintain information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively evaluating your IS control design and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for implementing security policies.

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GIAC Consulting Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security engineers. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited professional has the skills appropriate to provide support in important areas of network, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and institutions around the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the assistance of certified professionals for any of the security disciplines addressed within GIAC certification programs including assessing perimeters, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your company is located in Cincinnati Ohio and you're trying to find network security expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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