Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote help with network security issues, companies in Cincinnati, OH, can find world-class support from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support consultants are ready to offer fast and affordable assistance with security issues that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's security consultants are premier to support systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services encompasses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure network design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the industry's top security credentials including CISA and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides remote security support services on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and no additional charges for sign-up or off-hour service. By billing by the minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where quick fixes entail big bills.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
In case your business is now faced with a security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Network Help to learn how to get immediate aid. Progent has a team of seasoned network security experts who offer online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to protect against future exploits.

For companies that have planned in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of handling a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Coordinating data security plus preparedness for restoring critical information and systems after an attack demands an on-going effort that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified engineers can help your business at whatever level in your efforts to safeguard your IT system, from security evaluation to designing a complete security strategy. Key technologies covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Environments
Every business ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both preventive and responsive elements. The proactive plan is a set of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies activities to help IT staff to evaluate the losses caused by an attack, remediate the damage, document the experience, and restore business functions as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your company operations. Progent can set up scanning software, define and build a safe network infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected remote connectivity to e-mail and information, and configure an effective VPN.

If you are interested in an affordable way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options feature automated online server tracking and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud resources and that comply with regulatory security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in recovering networks and computers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have failed because of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage caused by the breach, restore normal business operations, and recover data compromised owing to the breach. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a thorough failure evaluation by going over activity logs and utilizing a variety of proven assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to recommend efficient ways to avoid or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an environment victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to address the entire threat lifecycle including blocking, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-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 (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require immediate action. Progent can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and allows fast recovery of vital data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware failures, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to recover your critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of leading information security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware solution without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and safeguard information about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require when you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified engineers offer world-class specialized help in vital facets of computer protection including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of automatic system scans to uncover possible security problems. Progent has broad experience with these and similar tools and can help your company to understand audit reports and react appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web application testing and can conduct expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major worldwide security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Learn more information about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network technologies including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and IS routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Learn additional information concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as being expert in a wide range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size expert consulting for products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWALL Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the fundamental skills and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information security managers are expected to master. CISM offers business management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their accreditation have the experience and knowledge to provide effective security administration and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM consultant to help your organization in critical security areas such as data protection governance, vulnerability management, data security program control, and crisis handling support.

Find out more details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and models, access permission methodology, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants have earned ISSAP status as a result of thorough testing and extensive experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Get more details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure IT Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise expected of 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 enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious qualification that signifies mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that candidates pass an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to help businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, information technology administration, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and support information system controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially evaluating your IS control mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM support professionals for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

Learn the details about Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Support.

GIAC Professional Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security engineers. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified security consultant has the knowledge necessary to deliver services in key categories of network, information, and application security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the assistance of GIAC certified professionals for any of the network security capabilities covered under GIAC certification topics such as assessing networks, incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Help
If your business is situated in Cincinnati or elsewhere in 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 the Cincinnati Metro Area.