Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote assistance with computer security issues, companies in Columbus Ohio can find expert expertise by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online support staff is ready to offer fast and low-cost assistance with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's security consultants are premier to provide help for environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including Global Information Assurance Certification and ISSAP.

Progent offers remote security assistance on a per-minute basis with no minimum minutes and without additional charges for setup or off-hour service. By billing by the minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses low and avoids situations where simple fixes turn into major bills.

We've Been Hacked: What Should We Do?
If your network is now fighting a network security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Support to find out how to get immediate aid. Progent maintains a team of seasoned network security experts who can provide remote and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies that have planned carefully for an attack, the step-by-step incident handling procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security attack.

Overview of Security Support Services
Coordinating network protection plus staying ready for recovering vital information and functions following an attack requires a continual program that entails a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's security engineers can assist your business at whatever level in your attempt to protect your IT system, from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Important areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Any organization should develop a thoroughly considered security plan that includes both preventive and responsive steps. The proactive strategy is a set of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines procedures to help security staff to inventory the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the event, and restore network functions as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your company operations. Progent can set up auditing software, define and execute a secure IT architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to set up a firewall, deploy secure offsite connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an effective virtual private network.

If you are looking for an economical way for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages include non-stop remote system tracking and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in recovering systems and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have stopped working because of a security attack. Progent can show you how to determine the losses caused by the assault, restore normal functions, and retrieve information compromised as a result of the assault. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security problems reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest effective measures to avoid or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to rebuild an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. 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 service that utilizes cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, identification, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require urgent action. Progent can also assist you to install and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and allows fast restoration of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to restore your critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security vendors to deliver centralized management and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting solution without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's 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, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time spent searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating 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 maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers can provide world-class consulting support in vital facets of IT security such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with security auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of comprehensive network tests to uncover possible security problems. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar tools and can assist your company to analyze audit reports and react appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web application validation and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major worldwide security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances plus mobile devices. Get the details about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class technical services for Cisco's entire range of security and VPN products including 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, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Get the details concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a wide range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes top-level engineering services for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services
CISM defines the fundamental competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that information security managers are expected to master. CISM offers business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their certification possess the background and knowledge to offer efficient security administration and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to assist your organization in key security areas such as information security governance, risk assessment, information protection process management, and crisis response management.

Find out more information concerning Progent's CISM Security Consulting Expertise.

CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP certification through verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security design and test systems, access permission methodology, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts have been awarded ISSAP certification after thorough testing and substantial experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Read more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected IT Infrastructure Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious achievement that represents expertise in information system security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo a comprehensive test overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit process, IT governance, systems and architecture planned useful life, IT support, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Find out more information about Progent's CISA Consulting Services.

CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Consultants
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and carry out a workplace continuity strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially assessing your IS control design and also with the services of Progent's CISM experts for designing security policies.

Get more details concerning Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Services.

GIAC Support Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security experts. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to provide support in key categories of system, data, and software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified professionals for any of the security services addressed under GIAC accreditation programs including auditing perimeters, incident response, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your business is located in Columbus Ohio and you want network security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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