Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get fast remote help with computer security issues, businesses in Columbus Ohio have access to world-class support from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote service staff is available to provide effective and economical help with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to support environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad array of services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure network design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has earned the industry's top security accreditations including CISA and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers remote security assistance on a by-the-minute model without minimum times and no additional charges for sign-up or after hours service. By billing per minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses low and avoids scenarios where simple fixes result in big bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
If your business is now experiencing a network security crisis, visit Progent's Urgent Online Technical Help to find out how to receive immediate aid. Progent maintains a team of seasoned network security experts who can provide online and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity posture to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have prepared in advance for a security breech, the formal post-attack handling procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Managing computer protection and preparation for restoring critical data and systems following an attack demands an on-going process that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified engineers can support your organization at any level in your attempt to protect your IT network, from security assessments to creating a complete security program. Key areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Any business ought to have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive and reactive steps. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to assist security personnel to assess the damage resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to build protection into your company processes. Progent can set up scanning utilities, define and execute a safe computer infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to optimize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design safe remote access to e-mail and data, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If you are looking for an economical way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services feature automated remote system tracking and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with regulatory security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring systems and servers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have failed because of a security breach. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the assault, return your company to normal business operations, and recover data compromised as a result of the assault. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a thorough failure evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of proven assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to propose efficient strategies to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an IT network damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management offer organizations of all sizes a flexible and affordable alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving IT network. Besides maximizing the protection and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your in-house IT staff to focus on more strategic projects and tasks that derive maximum business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of outsourced network management services is intended 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: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior analysis tools to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by legacy signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to manage the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data protection regulations. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and enables fast recovery of critical files, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can help you to recover your business-critical information. 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 service that incorporates the technology of top information security companies to deliver centralized management and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting environment without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, find and protect information about your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time spent looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer unique specialized help in key areas of IT protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with information risk auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a set of comprehensive network tests to identify potential security holes. Progent has extensive skills with testing tools and can help your company to analyze assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web software testing and can conduct expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major global security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment plus portable devices. Read more details about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network products such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Learn more details concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
As well as being expert in a wide range of protection solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size top-level support for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

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

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
CISM identifies the core skills and international standards of service that IT security professionals are required to achieve. It provides business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM have the experience and knowledge to offer effective security management and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to help your organization in vital security areas such as information security governance, vulnerability assessment, information protection process control, and incident handling management.

Read the details about Progent's CISM Security Consulting Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and models, access permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn additional information concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of thorough examination and significant hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Learn additional details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected IT Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations with the services associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your organization to follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that represents mastery in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has candidates pass an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to help companies in the areas of information systems audit process, IT enforcement, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding data assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively evaluating your IS management design and also with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for defining security policies.

Find out additional details about Progent's CRISC Risk Mitigation Support.

Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of computer security experts. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited security consultant has the knowledge needed to provide support in key areas of system, data, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the expertise of certified professionals for any of the network security capabilities covered within GIAC certification programs including assessing security systems, incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Support
If your organization is located in Columbus Ohio and you need cybersecurity consulting expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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