Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote assistance with data security issues, companies in Columbus, OH, have access to world-class expertise by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to offer fast and economical assistance with security issues that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to support systems based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the industry's top security certifications including CISA and ISSAP.

Progent provides online security support on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and no extra charges for sign-up or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by delivering world-class help, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs low and eliminates situations where simple solutions result in major expenses.

We've Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
In case you are now experiencing a network security crisis, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Network Help to see how to get fast assistance. Progent maintains a pool of certified network security specialists who can provide online and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to protect against future attacks.

For businesses who have planned beforehand for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a serious security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Managing data protection as well as staying ready for recovering vital information and functions following a security breach demands an on-going program that entails a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's security experts can support your organization at all levels in your efforts to protect your IT system, ranging from security assessments to designing a complete security strategy. Important areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Any business should have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive steps. The pre-attack plan is a collection of precautions that works to minimize security gaps. The post-attack plan defines procedures to assist security staff to assess the losses caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore business functions as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your business processes. Progent can set up auditing utilities, define and execute a secure computer architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will enhance the safety of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, design safe online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages feature continual online server tracking and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud hosted resources and that are compliant with government data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering systems and devices that have been compromised, are suspect, or have stopped working following a security attack. Progent can help evaluate the damage caused by the attack, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the event. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over activity logs and using a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest efficient ways to avoid or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild an IT network compromised by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates next generation behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to address the complete malware attack progression including protection, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent can also help your company to install and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and enables fast recovery of vital files, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to component failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve 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 to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPPA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to recover your critical information. 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 filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of top data security companies to deliver web-based management and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware solution without a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and protect information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time spent trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require the instant you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security engineers offer world-class expertise in vital areas of IT security such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of automatic system tests to identify potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these utilities and can help you to understand audit results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web software testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important global security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Learn the details about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class technical support for Cisco's complete range of security and VPN technologies such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Learn more information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
In addition to being expert in a broad range of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of any size top-level engineering services for solutions from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

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

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the fundamental competencies and worldwide standards of performance that computer security managers are required to master. It provides business management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM possess the experience and skill to provide efficient security administration and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to help your organization in vital security areas such as information protection governance, vulnerability assessment, data security program control, and incident response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have earned CISSP certification as a result of verified experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include security management procedures, security architecture and models, access control systems, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP status following rigorous examination and significant hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises 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 help your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important qualification that represents expertise in information system security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that candidates pass an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer trained to help businesses in the fields of IS audit services, information technology administration, systems and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to verify a consultant's ability to design, implement, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively evaluating your IT management design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for defining security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited professional has the knowledge necessary to deliver support in key areas of network, information, and software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the assistance of certified consultants for all of the security services addressed under GIAC certification programs including assessing IT infrastructure, security incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Help
If your business is located in Columbus or elsewhere in the state of Ohio and you're trying to find network security expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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