Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online assistance with computer security issues, businesses in Columbus, OH, can find world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to provide fast and low-cost help with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's security engineers are certified to support systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected network infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the world's top security certifications including CISM and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent offers remote security support on a per-minute model without minimum call duration and without additional fees for setup or off-hour support. By billing per minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's billing model keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where quick solutions turn into big expenses.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Should We Do Now?
If you are currently faced with a security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Support to learn how to get fast assistance. Progent has a pool of seasoned cybersecurity experts who can provide online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future attacks.

For businesses who have planned beforehand for a security breech, the formal incident response procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of responding to a major security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating network security as well as preparedness for recovering critical information and systems after a security breach requires an on-going process that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's security experts can support your organization at all levels in your efforts to protect your IT system, from security audits to designing a complete security program. Key areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Threats.

Designing and Implementing Secure Networks
Any business ought to have a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and responsive elements. The proactive strategy is a set of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The reactive strategy defines activities to assist security personnel to inventory the losses caused by an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and restore business activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to design security into your business processes. Progent can set up scanning software, define and execute a safe network infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to maximize the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to set up a firewall, deploy secure online and mobile access to e-mail and data, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an economical option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services include automated online network tracking and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in restoring systems and computers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working as a result of a security breach. Progent can help assess the damage resulting from the breach, return your company to normal business operations, and recover information compromised owing to the event. Progent's security specialists can also manage a comprehensive failure analysis by examining event logs and using a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to recommend efficient measures to prevent or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an information system damaged by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of managed 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 available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates next generation behavior analysis technology to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to manage the complete threat progression including protection, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and enables rapid recovery of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide advanced expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to recover your critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of leading information security companies to deliver web-based management and world-class security for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware solution without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting provider. Find out more 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 safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time spent looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require when you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified engineers offer unique consulting support in key facets of computer protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with security evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive network tests to reveal possible security problems. Progent has extensive skills with scanning tools and can help your company to analyze assessment results and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web application testing and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key industry security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless appliances as well as mobile devices. Learn additional information about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Find out the details about Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a broad range of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of any size expert engineering services for technologies from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWALL Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the fundamental skills and international standards of performance that computer security managers are expected to achieve. CISM offers executive management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM possess the background and skill to offer efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM support professional to assist your enterprise in vital security areas including information protection governance, vulnerability management, data protection program control, and incident response support.

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CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security design and test systems, connection control methodology, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Find out more information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification after thorough testing and substantial experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
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 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 cybersecurity consultant to help your organization to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient design strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a globally recognized achievement that signifies expertise in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit services, IT administration, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Consultants
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and execute a business continuity strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively evaluating your IS management mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security experts. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited security consultant has the skills necessary to provide support in key areas of system, information, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations around the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the assistance of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the network security capabilities addressed under GIAC certification topics including assessing networks, security incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Support
If your organization is located in Columbus or anywhere in the state of Ohio and you're trying to find cybersecurity consulting, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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