Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate online help with network security issues, businesses in Columbus Ohio can find expert troubleshooting from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support consultants are ready to provide efficient and economical help with security problems that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's security consultants are premier to support systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services encompasses firewall expertise, email security, protected system design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the world's top security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers remote security help on a per-minute model with no minimum call duration and without additional fees for sign-up or off-hour support. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses low and avoids scenarios where quick solutions turn into big bills.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Can We Do?
If your network is currently faced with a security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Help to find out how to get immediate assistance. Progent has a team of veteran cybersecurity specialists who can provide online and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity posture to protect against future exploits.

For organizations who have planned in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step incident response procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security attack.

Introduction to Security Services
Coordinating network protection and preparedness for recovering vital data and systems following an attack demands a continual effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified experts can assist your business at all levels in your efforts to guard your IT network, ranging from security audits to designing a complete security strategy. Important areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of Email-Based Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Protected Environments
Any organization ought to have a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive elements. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that works to reduce security gaps. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to help IT personnel to assess the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and restore business activity as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your business operations. Progent can install scanning software, define and implement a secure IT infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, deploy protected online and mobile access to email and information, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an affordable way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options feature continual remote system tracking and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with government security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have failed following a security breach. Progent can show you how to assess the damage resulting from the assault, restore normal functions, and recover information lost as a result of the assault. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a thorough failure analysis by going over event logs and using a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to propose efficient measures to prevent or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct a network compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Work-from-Home Security Consulting
At-home employees commonly use their own computing devices and often operate in a poorly secured physical environment. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to cyber threats and calls for careful deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, thorough end-user education, and the development of policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran team of at-home workforce support experts can assist your business to design, configure and maintain a compliant security solution that guards critical IT assets in networks that incorporate telecommuters.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer businesses of any size a flexible and cost-effective alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your ever-evolving IT network. In addition to optimizing the protection and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your IT team to focus on more strategic initiatives and activities that derive maximum business value from your information network. Find out more about Progent's patch management services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations 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
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape legacy signature-based AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the entire malware attack lifecycle including blocking, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup/restore product companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services manage and track your backup processes and enable non-disruptive backup and fast restoration of vital files, apps, images, plus VMs. ProSight DPS helps you avoid data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, user error, ill-intentioned insiders, or software glitches. Managed services in the ProSight ProSight Data Protection product line include ProSight Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Backup, ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can assist you to identify which of these managed services are most appropriate for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of top data security vendors to provide web-based management and world-class protection for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, when you sign into a protected online account and give your password you are asked to confirm your identity on a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A wide selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this added form of authentication including a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate several verification devices. For more information about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hosting environment without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, retrieve and protect data about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time wasted searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you�re making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require as soon as you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants can provide world-class support in key facets of IT protection including:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive system scans to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has broad skills with scanning tools and can help your company to analyze assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web software validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important industry security specifications such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile devices. Learn more information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical expertise for Cisco's entire family of protection and VPN solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected broadband and IS routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Learn more information about Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and VPN Solutions
As well as supporting a broad array of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size expert support for security products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the fundamental competencies and international standards of service that information security professionals are required to achieve. It provides executive management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their certification possess the experience and skill to offer effective security administration and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to assist your organization in critical security areas including data security governance, risk assessment, information protection program control, and incident handling support.

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CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of verified experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and models, access control systems, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have earned ISSAP accreditation after rigorous testing and extensive experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your organization to utilize modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that signifies expertise in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has candidates undergo an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to help companies in the fields of information systems audit process, IT governance, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology service delivery, protecting information assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to design, implement, and support IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to develop and carry out a business continuity strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially assessing your IT management design and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for implementing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC Support Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited security consultant has the knowledge necessary to deliver services in critical areas of system, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. NSA. Progent offers the support of certified professionals for any of the security services addressed under GIAC accreditation topics such as auditing networks, security incident response, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your company is located in Columbus Ohio and you need computer security support services, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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