Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate online help with network security issues, companies in Columbus Ohio can find expert support by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is ready to offer effective and economical assistance with security problems that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to support environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad array of consulting services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected system design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including CISA and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers remote security support on a by-the-minute model with no minimum minutes and no additional fees for setup or after hours service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs under control and avoids situations where simple fixes turn into big charges.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Should We Do Now?
In case you are currently fighting a network security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Support to find out how to get fast aid. Progent maintains a team of seasoned network security specialists who offer online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future attacks.

For companies that have prepared in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step incident handling procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of responding to a major security penetration.

Introduction to Security Services
Managing data security and preparedness for recovering vital data and functions following an attack requires an on-going process that entails an array of technologies and processes. Progent's security professionals can support your business at all levels in your attempt to guard your information network, ranging from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security program. Key areas supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Protected Networks
Any company ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both proactive and reactive elements. The proactive strategy is a collection of precautions that works to reduce security gaps. The reactive plan defines activities to assist IT personnel to assess the losses caused by an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and restore network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your business operations. Progent can configure scanning software, define and build a secure IT infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to maximize the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to set up a firewall, design safe offsite connectivity to email and information, and install an effective VPN.

If you are looking for an economical way for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options feature automated remote network monitoring and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with regulatory security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in restoring systems and servers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working following a security attack. Progent can show you how to assess the damage caused by the breach, return your company to normal business operations, and recover information lost owing to the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also oversee a thorough failure evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing other advanced forensics tools. Progent's background with security problems reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to propose effective strategies to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an IT network damaged by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Cybersecurity Consulting
Work-from-Home staff members commonly utilize their own devices and usually work in a unsecured physical area. This multiplies their susceptibility to malware attacks and calls for careful deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the development of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran roster of at-home workforce solutions experts can help your business to plan, configure and maintain a compliant security solution that guards critical information resources in networks that include remote workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of all sizes a versatile and affordable alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic information system. Besides optimizing the security and functionality of your computer network, Progent's patch management services allow your in-house IT team to focus on more strategic initiatives and activities that derive the highest business value from your information network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including blocking, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer economical in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup product vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services manage and monitor your backup operations and allow non-disruptive backup and rapid recovery of vital files/folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets you recover from data loss resulting from hardware breakdown, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, human error, malicious insiders, or application glitches. Managed backup services in the ProSight DPS family include ProSight Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can help you to identify which of these fully managed backup services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the infrastructure of top information security companies to provide web-based control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo authentication service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected online account and give your password you are requested to verify who you are on a device that only you have and that uses a different network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this second form of authentication such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can register multiple verification devices. For more information about Duo identity validation services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for an at-home workforce.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can save up to half of time thrown away trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you're planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require as soon as you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's veteran consultants offer world-class specialized help in vital facets of IT protection such as:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a variety of comprehensive system tests to reveal potential security problems. Progent has broad experience with these tools and can assist you to analyze assessment results and react appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web application testing and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major industry security specifications such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Learn additional details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class technical services for Cisco's complete range of protection and VPN products such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Read additional information about Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
As well as being expert in a broad range of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes advanced engineering services for security products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Consulting
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic skills and worldwide standards of service that information technology security professionals are required to master. CISM offers executive management the confidence that those who have earned their certification possess the background and knowledge to provide effective security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM consultant to assist your organization in key security areas such as information protection governance, risk management, data security process control, and crisis handling management.

Find out more information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Assistance.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered within CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and models, access permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Get additional information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough testing and extensive experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Read additional details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a prestigious qualification that indicates expertise in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has candidates pass an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security consultant trained to assist companies in the fields of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Management Experts
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and maintain IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively assessing your IT management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for designing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security experts. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified professional possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver support in vital areas of system, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified professionals for any of the network security disciplines addressed under GIAC accreditation 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 Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Columbus Ohio and you need network security expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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