Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast online assistance with computer security issues, companies in Corpus Christi Texas have access to world-class support from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are available to offer efficient and affordable help with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services encompasses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected network architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the world's top security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers online security support on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum times and no extra charges for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions turn into major charges.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do?
In case your business is now experiencing a security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Help to learn how to receive immediate help. Progent maintains a team of seasoned network security specialists who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future exploits.

For organizations that have planned beforehand for a security breech, the step-by-step post-attack handling model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a major security incident.

Overview of Security Expertise
Coordinating computer protection plus planning for recovering vital data and systems following a security breach requires a continual program that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's security engineers can help your business at all levels in your attempt to safeguard your information network, from security audits to creating a complete security strategy. Some areas covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Every business should have a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive activity. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies activities to assist security staff to inventory the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and restore network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company operations. Progent can configure auditing software, create and execute a secure computer architecture, and propose processes and policies that will enhance the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy secure online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If you are looking for an affordable way for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options feature non-stop online system monitoring and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud resources and that are compliant with government and industry data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in recovering networks and devices that have been hacked, are suspect, or have ceased to function as a result of a security breach. Progent can help determine the damage resulting from the assault, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the attack. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a comprehensive failure analysis by going over activity logs and using a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend effective ways to prevent or contain future attacks.

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

Work-from-Home Security Consulting
Work-from-Home employees typically use their personal devices and often work in a poorly secured physical space. This situation increases their vulnerability to malware threats and requires judicious deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive end-user training, and the development of policies based on best practices. Progent's veteran group of telecommuter support consultants can help your business to plan, configure and maintain an effective security solution that protects critical information assets in networks that include remote workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management provide organizations of all sizes a versatile and cost-effective solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your dynamic information network. Besides maximizing the protection and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your in-house IT team to focus on more strategic projects and activities that deliver maximum business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight family of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior analysis tools to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to manage the entire malware attack lifecycle including protection, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services 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 (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
Progent has partnered with leading backup product vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a family of management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services automate and monitor your backup processes and allow non-disruptive backup and rapid restoration of important files, applications, images, plus virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps your business recover from data loss caused by hardware failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, user mistakes, malicious employees, or software bugs. Managed backup services available in the ProSight Data Protection selection include ProSight Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can help you to determine which of these managed backup services are best suited for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of top information security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo authentication services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables one-tap identity verification on iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured application and give your password you are asked to verify who you are on a unit that only you have and that uses a different network channel. A wide selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this added form of authentication including a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may register several validation devices. For more information about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one 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 an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, find and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains and warranties. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can save up to 50% of time thrown away looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you're making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need when you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's veteran consultants can provide unique expertise in vital areas of IT protection including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of comprehensive system tests to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has broad skills with scanning utilities and can assist your company to understand assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web software validation and can conduct expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major industry security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Find out more information about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class technical expertise for Cisco's entire family of security and VPN products such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn more information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
As well as supporting a wide range of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size advanced support for security products from other popular firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

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

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager defines the fundamental skills and worldwide standards of service that information technology security managers are required to achieve. It provides business management the confidence that consultants who have earned their CISM have the experience and knowledge to offer effective security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to assist your enterprise in critical security disciplines such as information security governance, vulnerability management, data security program management, and incident handling management.

Find out more details concerning Progent's CISM Security Support Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and test systems, access control systems, applications development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification after rigorous examination and significant hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise associated with 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 assist your organization to follow modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Expertise
The CISA credential is a globally recognized qualification that indicates mastery in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security audit professional trained to assist companies in the fields of IS audit process, IT enforcement, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity preparedness.

Find out the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services.

CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Consultants
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially auditing your IT management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security engineers. GIAC's mission is to assure that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge needed to provide support in vital categories of system, information, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the help of certified consultants for any of the network security disciplines covered within GIAC certification programs including auditing networks, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Support
If your business is situated in Corpus Christi Texas and you want cybersecurity help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout Central and South Texas.