Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online assistance with data security issues, businesses in Columbus, OH, have access to world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote support staff is ready to provide effective and economical help with security problems that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for environments powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad array of consulting services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure network design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides online security support services on a by-the-minute model with no minimum minutes and without extra fees for setup or off-hour support. By charging per minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and avoids situations where simple solutions turn into big bills.

We've Been Attacked: What Do We Do Now?
In case your network is currently faced with a network security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Online Technical Support to learn how to get fast assistance. Progent has a team of veteran cybersecurity experts who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future attacks.

For businesses who have prepared in advance for an attack, the formal incident handling model promoted by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of handling a serious security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Managing data security as well as staying ready for restoring critical data and functions after a security breach demands a continual program involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can assist your organization at all levels in your attempt to safeguard your IT network, ranging from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security plan. Some technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Every company ought to have a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive activity. The proactive plan is a set of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines procedures to assist security staff to assess the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your company operations. Progent can set up auditing software, create and build a safe computer infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies that will enhance the safety of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design secure remote connectivity to e-mail and data, and install an effective VPN.

If your company is looking for an affordable option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options include automated online server monitoring and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud hosted resources and that comply with regulatory data security standards. (Learn 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 planning and integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring systems and servers that have been hacked, are in question, or have stopped working as a result of a security breach. Progent can show you how to assess the damage caused by the assault, restore ordinary functions, and retrieve information compromised as a result of the event. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by going over activity logs and using other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security problems reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to recommend effective measures to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild a network damaged by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware removal and recovery services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape legacy signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire threat lifecycle including blocking, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid restoration of critical data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged due to component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine 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 advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when 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: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top data security vendors to deliver centralized management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single 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 a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require as soon as you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers can provide world-class consulting support in key areas of IT protection such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic system scans to uncover possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with scanning utilities and can assist your company to analyze assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web application testing and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important industry security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment as well as mobile devices. Get additional details about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst switches. Read additional details concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
In addition to being expert in a broad range of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of any size advanced support for security products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Help
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the core competencies and worldwide standards of service that information security managers are expected to achieve. CISM offers business management the confidence that those who have earned their accreditation possess the experience and skill to provide efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM consultant to help your organization in vital security disciplines such as information protection governance, risk management, information security process control, and crisis handling support.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have earned CISSP status through verified experience, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include security management practices, security design and models, connection permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants have been awarded ISSAP accreditation following rigorous examination and extensive experience. field experience with information security design. 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 DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises 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 skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define effective design strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a globally recognized qualification that signifies mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo an extensive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security engineer able to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit services, IT administration, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT support, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management expertise is a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively assessing your IT control mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified professional has the skills needed to deliver services in key areas of network, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified consultants for all of the security capabilities addressed within GIAC certification topics including assessing security systems, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Support
If your business is located in Columbus or anywhere in the state of Ohio and you want cybersecurity 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 Columbus and the surrounding metro areas.