Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get fast remote help with computer security issues, businesses in Clearwater Florida have access to world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support consultants are available to offer fast and low-cost help with security problems that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to provide help for systems powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of services encompasses firewall configuration, email security, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and ISSAP.

Progent offers remote security assistance on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and without extra charges for setup or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where simple solutions turn into major expenses.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
In case your business is currently experiencing a network security emergency, visit Progent's Emergency Online Computer Help to see how to receive immediate help. Progent maintains a pool of certified cybersecurity experts who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations that have prepared in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack handling procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security penetration.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Managing data protection and preparation for recovering critical data and systems following a security breach requires an on-going program that entails an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified security experts can support your organization at whatever level in your attempt to guard your information system, from security evaluation to creating a complete security strategy. Important technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Protected Environments
Any business ought to develop a carefully considered security strategy that includes both proactive and responsive steps. The proactive plan is a collection of precautions that works to reduce security gaps. The reactive plan defines activities to assist security personnel to assess the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your business operations. Progent can install auditing utilities, define and execute a secure network infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to enhance the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to configure a firewall, design safe remote access to e-mail and information, and configure an effective virtual private network.

If you are looking for an economical option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options feature non-stop remote network 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 incorporate local and cloud infrastructure and that comply with regulatory data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in recovering networks and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working following a security attack. Progent can help determine the losses resulting from the breach, restore ordinary functions, and retrieve data lost owing to the assault. Progent's security specialists can also manage a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over activity logs and using a variety of proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend effective ways to prevent or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an information system victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management offer organizations of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving IT network. Besides maximizing the protection and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services allow your in-house IT team to focus on line-of-business projects and activities that deliver the highest business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight line of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates next generation behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete malware attack progression including blocking, detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and allows fast restoration of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted due to component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide advanced support to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your critical data. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

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 incorporates the technology of top data security companies to deliver centralized control and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, visit 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 or mid-size business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect information about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time spent 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 recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need when you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security consultants can provide world-class support in vital facets of network security such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a set of automatic system tests to uncover potential security holes. Progent has extensive skills with these utilities and can help you to analyze assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web application validation and can conduct expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important industry security specifications such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Read additional details concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Find out more information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a wide array of network security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes expert consulting for products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
CISM identifies the basic skills and worldwide standards of service that information technology security professionals are required to achieve. It provides executive management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their CISM possess the background and skill to offer efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM expert to help your organization in key security areas such as data security governance, vulnerability assessment, information security process management, and incident handling management.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP status through verified experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered under CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security design and test systems, connection control methodology, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Find out more details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have been awarded ISSAP accreditation after rigorous examination and extensive hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Find out more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected Network Architecture Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical 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 goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

Find out the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting.

CISA Security Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is an important achievement that indicates mastery in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that consultants pass an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant able to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology administration, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology service delivery, protecting information resources, and business continuity preparedness.

Get additional information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise.

CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and execute a workplace continuity strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management services are a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively assessing your IT management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for designing security policies and procedures.

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

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security professionals. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified professional possesses the skills needed to deliver support in key areas of system, data, and application security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the help of certified security engineers for all of the network security services covered within GIAC certification topics including auditing IT infrastructure, security incident response, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

Find out additional information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your business is located in Clearwater Florida and you're trying to find cybersecurity consulting expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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