Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast online help with network security issues, companies in Columbus Ohio have access to expert expertise by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote support staff is available to provide fast and low-cost assistance with security issues that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to support systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad array of services encompasses firewall configuration, email security, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the industry's top security credentials including Certified Information Security Manager and CISSP.

Progent offers online security assistance on a per-minute basis without minimum minutes and without additional charges for setup or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's billing model keeps costs low and avoids situations where simple fixes turn into big bills.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
If your network is now experiencing a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Help to learn how to receive fast aid. Progent has a pool of seasoned cybersecurity experts who can provide remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future exploits.

For companies who have prepared beforehand for a security breech, the formal incident handling model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Managing computer protection and planning for recovering critical information and systems after an attack requires a continual program that entails a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified security experts can help your organization at whatever level in your efforts to guard your IT system, from security evaluation to designing a complete security program. Important technologies covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Protected Networks
Every business ought to develop a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive steps. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies procedures to assist IT staff to evaluate the damage caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to build protection into your company processes. Progent can install scanning software, define and execute a secure IT architecture, and propose processes and policies to maximize the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy protected online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an effective VPN.

If you are looking for an affordable option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options feature automated online system tracking and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud hosted resources and that comply with government and industry security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in recovering networks and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have ceased to function because of a security penetration. Progent can help evaluate the damage caused by the attack, restore normal functions, and retrieve information compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's security specialists can also manage a thorough failure analysis by examining event logs and using a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest effective ways to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct an information system damaged by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware removal and recovery services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
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 facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the entire threat lifecycle including filtering, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection regulations. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent can also help you to set up and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services 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 Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and allows rapid restoration of vital data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to component failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as 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 consultants can provide world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your critical data. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the technology of leading data security companies to deliver web-based management and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to provide complete protection 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 preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more details, see 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 critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, find and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time wasted looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified consultants offer unique consulting support in vital facets of IT protection including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive network tests to uncover potential security holes. Progent has extensive skills with testing utilities and can help you to understand audit reports and respond appropriately. Progent's security consultants also offer web software testing and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major worldwide security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security covering stationary wireless appliances as well as mobile handsets. Find out the details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's entire family of protection and VPN solutions such as PIX 500 Series 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 switches. Read additional information concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
In addition to supporting a broad array of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size top-level engineering services for security products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Help
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
CISM defines the fundamental competencies and international standards of performance that information technology security professionals are required to master. It provides executive management the assurance that those who have earned their accreditation have the experience and knowledge to offer effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM consultant to help your enterprise in vital security areas including information security governance, vulnerability management, information security program management, and crisis response management.

Learn more information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included within CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and test systems, connection permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn more details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification following rigorous examination and extensive hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Read more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure Network Infrastructure Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned 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 offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your organization to follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all critical system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that indicates mastery in information system security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential has candidates undergo an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security professional able to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit process, information technology administration, network assets and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Find out additional information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise.

CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and support IS controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation services are complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively evaluating your IS management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for implementing security policies.

Read more details about Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Support.

GIAC Professional Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security experts. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills appropriate to provide support in key areas of network, data, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the support of certified professionals for any of the network security capabilities addressed within GIAC certification topics such as auditing perimeters, incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

Find out additional information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Support.

Contact Progent for Computer Security Help
If your company is situated in Columbus Ohio and you're trying to find computer security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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