Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate remote assistance with computer security problems, businesses in Cincinnati, OH, have access to expert support from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online support consultants are ready to offer efficient and low-cost assistance with security issues that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to support environments powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad array of services covers firewall technology, email security, protected network design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including Global Information Assurance Certification and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides remote security help on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and no extra charges for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses low and avoids situations where quick fixes turn into big bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do?
In case your network is currently experiencing a network security emergency, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Support to see how to receive fast aid. Progent maintains a pool of certified cybersecurity experts who offer online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future attacks.

For companies that have planned carefully for an attack, the formal incident response procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a major security penetration.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating network security plus staying ready for recovering vital data and systems following an attack requires an on-going process that entails an array of tools and processes. Progent's security experts can support your organization at all levels in your attempt to protect your IT system, ranging from security audits to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Some areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Attacks.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Any organization ought to have a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and responsive steps. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that works to reduce security gaps. The reactive strategy defines activities to assist IT personnel to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and revive network activity as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your company processes. Progent can install auditing software, create and execute a secure IT architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up 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 network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options feature non-stop online network monitoring and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with regulatory security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers skill in recovering networks and devices that have been hacked, are suspect, or have stopped working because of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to assess the losses caused by the attack, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a thorough forensic analysis by examining activity logs and using other proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to propose efficient strategies to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire threat progression including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific needs and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent can also assist you to install and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and allows rapid recovery of critical data, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory standards like HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to recover your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

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 technology of top data security companies to deliver centralized control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more details 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 capture, maintain, retrieve and protect data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time spent looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's security engineers can provide unique specialized help in key facets of network security including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security auditing utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of automatic network tests to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has broad skills with these and similar utilities and can help you to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web software validation and can perform thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important worldwide security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment plus mobile handsets. Find out additional details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth consulting services for Cisco's complete range of protection and VPN technologies such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Read the details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
In addition to being expert in a wide range of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes expert engineering services for solutions from other important firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Support
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWALL Expertise
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the core competencies and international benchmarks of service that computer security professionals are required to achieve. It offers business management the assurance that those who have earned their accreditation have the experience and knowledge to provide effective security administration and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to help your enterprise in key security disciplines such as information security governance, vulnerability management, data protection program management, and crisis handling support.

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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 accreditation through verified experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security design and test systems, connection permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of rigorous testing and substantial hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth knowledge of access control mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

Find out additional information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected Network Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

Find out more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The CISA credential is a globally recognized qualification that signifies expertise in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security consultant trained to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, network assets and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and support information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to develop and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management services are complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially evaluating your IS control mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for implementing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security professionals. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited professional has the knowledge necessary to provide services in critical areas of system, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the assistance of certified security engineers for all of the network security services covered under GIAC certification topics including assessing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your company is situated in Cincinnati or anywhere in Ohio and you need network security consulting, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Cincinnati Metro Area.