Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online assistance with network security issues, companies in Cleveland Ohio have access to world-class expertise by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service staff is ready to provide fast and affordable help with security crises that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure system infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and CISSP.

Progent provides remote security support services on a per-minute basis without minimum minutes and no extra fees for sign-up or after hours service. By billing per minute and by delivering world-class help, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes result in big expenses.

We've Been Attacked: What Do We Do?
If your business is now fighting a security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Support to learn how to receive fast aid. Progent has a pool of certified network security experts who can provide remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future exploits.

For businesses who have prepared carefully for being hacked, the formal incident response model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a major security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Managing computer security and preparedness for recovering critical information and systems after an attack demands an on-going program involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified professionals can help your organization at whatever level in your efforts to safeguard your information system, from security audits to creating a complete security plan. Some areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Every business should have a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines procedures to help IT personnel to inventory the damage resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, record the experience, and revive network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your company operations. Progent can install scanning software, define and execute a secure network infrastructure, and propose processes and policies to optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, deploy safe offsite access to email and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an economical way for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options feature continual remote network tracking and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud hosted resources and that comply with government data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in recovering systems and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have ceased to function following a security penetration. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage caused by the assault, restore normal business operations, and retrieve information lost as a result of the attack. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a thorough forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and using a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to recommend effective measures to avoid or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct an IT network damaged by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware removal and recovery services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight series of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses 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
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior analysis technology to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement 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 you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and allows rapid recovery of vital data, apps and VMs that have become lost or corrupted as a result of component failures, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your critical data. Read 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 uses the technology of top information security companies to deliver centralized management and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hosting solution without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation process. 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: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, find and protect information about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save up to half of time wasted looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need as soon as you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers can provide unique expertise in key areas of network protection such as:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of automatic network scans to uncover potential security holes. Progent has broad experience with scanning tools and can assist you to analyze audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web software testing and can perform expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key industry security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Get additional details concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class consulting support for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX 500 Series 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. Learn more information concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
As well as supporting a wide range of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size advanced engineering services for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the core skills and international standards of service that information security managers are expected to master. It provides business management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM have the experience and skill to provide efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to assist your enterprise in vital security disciplines such as data protection governance, risk assessment, data security program management, and crisis handling support.

Learn additional details about Progent's CISM Security Support Assistance.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through verified experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and test systems, access permission systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn the details about Progent's CISSP Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have been awarded ISSAP accreditation following thorough examination and substantial experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations 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 cybersecurity expert to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

Learn the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting Services.

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that signifies expertise in network security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo an extensive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to assist companies in the areas of IS audit process, IT governance, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding data assets, and business continuity preparedness.

Find out more details about Progent's CISA Professional Services.

CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and carry out a business continuity plan that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially assessing your IS management mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM support professionals for implementing company-wide security policies.

Get more information concerning Progent's CRISC Risk Management Consulting.

Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security engineers. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited professional possesses the skills needed to deliver services in important categories of system, data, and software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified consultants for any of the network security capabilities covered under GIAC certification topics such as assessing perimeters, incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your company is located in Cleveland Ohio and you want cybersecurity help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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