Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast online assistance with network security issues, businesses in Clearwater Florida have access to expert support from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support staff is available to provide efficient and low-cost assistance with security emergencies that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to support environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, secure network architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has earned the world's top security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor and ISSAP.

Progent provides remote security expertise on a by-the-minute model with no minimum call duration and without additional fees for setup or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's billing model keeps expenses under control and eliminates situations where quick fixes entail major charges.

We've Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
If you are currently fighting a network security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Online Technical Support to learn how to get immediate assistance. Progent maintains a team of veteran cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have planned beforehand for being hacked, the formal incident handling procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating data security plus planning for restoring critical data and functions after a security breach demands an on-going program that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified engineers can assist your business at whatever level in your efforts to secure your IT system, from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security plan. Key areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Protected Networks
Any organization ought to have a carefully thought out security plan that includes both preventive and responsive steps. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines activities to help security staff to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the experience, and revive network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your business processes. Progent can configure scanning utilities, create and implement a safe network architecture, and propose processes and policies to enhance the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design safe remote access to e-mail and data, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an affordable option for jobbing out your security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services feature automated online server tracking and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud hosted resources and that are compliant with government and industry security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have ceased to function because of a security breach. Progent can help determine the damage caused by the assault, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve data lost as a result of the breach. Progent's security engineers can also perform a comprehensive forensic analysis by going over activity logs and using other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to propose effective ways to prevent or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an IT network compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and restoration services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior analysis tools to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the entire malware attack lifecycle including protection, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver affordable in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and enables fast recovery of critical files, apps and VMs that have become lost or corrupted due to component failures, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to recover your critical data. 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 leading information security companies to deliver web-based management and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more information, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

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 apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware solution without a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Find out more details 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 create, update, find and safeguard data about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to 50% of time spent searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require as soon as you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers offer unique expertise in key areas of network protection including:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic system tests to reveal possible security problems. Progent has extensive skills with testing utilities and can assist your company to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web application testing and can conduct expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key industry security specifications such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment plus mobile handsets. Get more details about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class technical support for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network products such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Get additional information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as supporting a broad range of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes expert support for products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

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

CISM Security Support Services
CISM defines the core competencies and international benchmarks of performance that information technology security managers are required to master. CISM provides business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM possess the background and knowledge to provide efficient security administration and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to assist your organization in critical security areas including information security governance, vulnerability assessment, data security program management, and incident handling management.

Get additional details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security architecture and models, connection control methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out more information about Progent's CISSP Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP status as a result of rigorous examination and substantial hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Get more information about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected Network Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 network security consultant to help your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, define effective design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
The CISA accreditation is an important achievement that represents mastery in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has candidates undergo an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security consultant trained to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit services, IT administration, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, safeguarding information resources, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out additional details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise.

CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and carry out a business continuity plan based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively assessing your IT control design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for defining company-wide security policies.

Read additional details about Progent's CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Services.

GIAC Consulting Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of computer security professionals. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited security consultant has the skills necessary to provide support in important areas of system, data, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations around the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified professionals for all of the security services addressed within GIAC accreditation topics such as assessing networks, incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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

Depend on Progent for Computer Security Help
If your company is located in Clearwater Florida and you're looking for computer security support services, phone 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.