Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast online help with computer security problems, businesses in Clearwater Florida can find expert expertise by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is ready to provide effective and economical assistance with security issues that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services encompasses firewall technology, email security, secure system infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's top security credentials including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent offers online security assistance on a by-the-minute model without minimum minutes and no extra charges for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's billing policy keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where quick fixes entail major expenses.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do Now?
If you are currently faced with a security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Network Support to find out how to receive immediate help. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned cybersecurity experts who can provide remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future exploits.

For organizations who have planned carefully for a security breech, the step-by-step incident handling procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of handling a serious security penetration.

Introduction to Security Services
Coordinating computer protection as well as planning for restoring critical data and functions after a security breach demands an on-going process that entails a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's security engineers can help your business at all levels in your attempt to protect your IT system, from security assessments to creating a complete security program. Some technologies covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Threats.

Designing and Implementing Protected Networks
Every business should have a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack plan is a collection of precautions that works to minimize security gaps. The post-attack plan defines procedures to help IT personnel to inventory the losses resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore network activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can configure auditing utilities, create and implement a safe IT architecture, and recommend processes and policies to enhance the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to configure a firewall, design protected remote connectivity to email and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an economical option for jobbing out your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages feature automated online system monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud hosted infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in recovering systems and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have failed because of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to determine the damage caused by the breach, restore ordinary functions, and recover information compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a thorough forensic evaluation by examining activity logs and using other proven assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to recommend effective ways to avoid or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an environment damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight series of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates next generation behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by traditional signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire malware attack lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's specific requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and allows fast recovery of vital files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide world-class support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of top data security companies to deliver centralized control and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. 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 ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting solution without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, find and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to 50% of time thrown away trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran engineers offer unique specialized help in key areas of IT protection such as:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with information risk auditing utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a set of automatic network tests to identify potential security problems. Progent has broad skills with scanning utilities and can help you to understand assessment reports and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web software validation and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major worldwide security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment as well as portable handsets. Learn the details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth consulting services for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Get more details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a wide array of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes expert consulting for solutions from other popular firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
CISM defines the fundamental skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that information technology security managers are expected to achieve. CISM provides executive management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM have the background and skill to offer efficient security management and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to assist your enterprise in critical security disciplines including information protection governance, vulnerability management, data security process management, and incident handling management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through verified experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and test systems, access permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts have been awarded ISSAP status after thorough testing and extensive experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Read additional information concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected IT Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier 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 services 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 consultant to help your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant security features for all critical system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a prestigious qualification that represents expertise in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo a comprehensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer able to help businesses in the areas of IS audit services, IT administration, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity planning.

Find out more information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services.

CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to verify a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially auditing your IT control design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for implementing company-wide security policies.

Get additional information concerning Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Consulting.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified professional has the knowledge needed to provide services in key areas of network, information, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified professionals for any of the security capabilities addressed within GIAC certification topics including assessing IT infrastructure, security incident response, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your organization is located in Clearwater Florida and you're trying to find network security consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support in metropolitan Orlando and Tampa Florida.