Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate online assistance with network security issues, companies in Cleveland Ohio have access to expert expertise by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to provide efficient and economical assistance with security crises that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to provide help for environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected network design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides online security assistance on a by-the-minute model without minimum minutes and without additional fees for setup or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions entail big expenses.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
In case you are currently fighting a security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Network Help to learn how to receive fast help. Progent maintains a pool of veteran network security experts who can provide remote and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations who have prepared carefully for an attack, the step-by-step incident response model promoted by GIAC is Progent's approved method of handling a major security penetration.

Overview of Security Services
Coordinating computer security and staying ready for recovering critical data and functions following an attack requires a continual program that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified experts can support your business at all levels in your attempt to safeguard your IT system, ranging from security audits to designing a comprehensive security plan. Some areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Borne Threats.

Planning and Implementing Protected Environments
Every organization should have a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both proactive and reactive elements. The proactive plan is a set of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The post-attack plan defines activities to assist IT personnel to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the experience, and revive network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your company operations. Progent can set up scanning software, define and build a secure computer infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to enhance the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected remote access to email and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an affordable option for jobbing out your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services include automated remote server monitoring and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that are compliant with regulatory data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have failed because of a security attack. Progent can help evaluate the damage resulting from the attack, restore ordinary business operations, and recover information compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough failure analysis by examining event logs and using other advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to recommend effective measures to prevent or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of any size a flexible and cost-effective alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your dynamic IT network. In addition to maximizing the security and functionality of your computer network, Progent's patch management services allow your IT team to concentrate on more strategic projects and tasks that derive the highest business value from your network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the entire malware attack lifecycle including filtering, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver economical in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and allows fast restoration of critical files, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver advanced support to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to recover your critical information. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of leading data security companies to deliver web-based management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, see 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 key servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware solution without a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, find and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can save up to 50% of time wasted looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and collaborating on 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 collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need the instant you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

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

Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a set of automatic system tests to identify possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with scanning utilities and can assist you to understand assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web software validation and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important industry security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment plus mobile handsets. Learn more details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class technical services for Cisco's complete range of security and VPN technologies including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Read additional information about Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
As well as being expert in a wide range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size advanced consulting for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
CISM identifies the fundamental skills and worldwide standards of performance that computer security managers are expected to master. CISM offers executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM have the experience and knowledge to provide effective security administration and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to help your organization in critical security disciplines including information security governance, vulnerability management, information protection program management, and incident handling management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and test systems, connection control methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Find out the details concerning Progent's CISSP Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have earned ISSAP certification following rigorous examination and extensive hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth knowledge of access management mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Engineering 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 expertise expected of 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 organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security features for all critical system functions, define effective design strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic security models that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a prestigious qualification that indicates mastery in information system security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security professional trained to assist companies in the areas of IS audit process, information technology administration, systems and architecture planned useful life, IT support, protecting data assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity plan based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk management services are complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially auditing your IT control mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM support professionals for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

Get more details concerning Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Services.

GIAC Consulting Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security experts. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited security consultant has the knowledge necessary to deliver services in critical categories of network, data, and program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations around the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified consultants for any of the security capabilities covered within GIAC certification topics including assessing IT infrastructure, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Support
If your business is situated in Cleveland Ohio and you're looking for network security consulting, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout Cleveland and the surrounding metro areas.