Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote help with computer security issues, businesses in Columbus, OH, have access to expert expertise by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are available to provide efficient and low-cost help with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to support environments based on Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's top security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent offers remote security help on a per-minute basis with no minimum times and no additional charges for setup or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses under control and eliminates situations where simple solutions turn into big bills.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do?
If you are currently experiencing a security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to find out how to get fast help. Progent has a team of veteran cybersecurity experts who offer remote and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to protect against future attacks.

For companies that have prepared beforehand for a security breech, the formal incident handling procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Managing data security and preparation for recovering critical data and functions after an attack requires an on-going program that entails a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified professionals can support your business at any level in your efforts to protect your IT network, ranging from security assessments to creating a complete security plan. Key technologies covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from Email-Based Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Every organization ought to develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive activity. The proactive strategy is a collection of precautions that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines procedures to assist security staff to assess the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the experience, and revive business functions as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning software, create and execute a secure network infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to maximize the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design safe remote access to e-mail and information, and install an efficient VPN.

If your company is interested in an economical option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages feature continual remote server monitoring and fast response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in recovering systems and devices that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have failed following a security penetration. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses resulting from the assault, restore ordinary functions, and recover data compromised owing to the attack. Progent's security specialists can also perform a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing other proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest efficient ways to prevent or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct a network damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight line 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. ProSight 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 (EPP) service that incorporates cutting edge behavior analysis technology to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including protection, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables rapid recovery of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve 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 an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: 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 infrastructure of leading information security companies to provide web-based control and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware solution without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, retrieve and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need when you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

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

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic system tests to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with these and similar tools and can assist your company to analyze audit results and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web application validation and can perform thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major worldwide security specifications including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment plus portable devices. Learn more details about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth consulting services for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, 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 more details concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and VPN Technologies
In addition to being expert in a wide range of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size expert engineering services for solutions from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Consulting
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWALL Consulting
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the fundamental competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that information technology security professionals are required to master. It offers executive management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their CISM have the background and knowledge to provide effective security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to assist your organization in critical security disciplines including data protection governance, vulnerability management, information protection process control, and crisis response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP status as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include security administration practices, security design and models, access permission systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out more information about Progent's CISSP Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have earned ISSAP certification as a result of rigorous testing and extensive hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise 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 network security expert to help your organization to utilize modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Services
The CISA credential is a globally recognized achievement that represents expertise in information system security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants pass an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant able to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit process, IT administration, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management expertise is a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively evaluating your IT management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC Support Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security engineers. GIAC's goal is to assure that an accredited security consultant possesses the skills necessary to provide services in vital categories of system, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and institutions all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the expertise of GIAC certified consultants for any of the security capabilities addressed under GIAC certification programs including assessing perimeters, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your company is situated in Columbus or anywhere in Ohio and you want computer security help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Columbus Metro Area.