Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote help with data security problems, businesses in Corpus Christi Texas can find expert troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support consultants are available to offer efficient and economical help with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to provide help for systems powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad range of services covers firewall configuration, email security, secure network design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including CISM and ISSAP.

Progent provides online security help on a per-minute basis without minimum minutes and without extra charges for sign-up or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's billing model keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where simple solutions turn into big expenses.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do Now?
In case your network is now faced with a security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Help to learn how to get fast help. Progent has a team of veteran network security experts who offer online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future attacks.

For companies that have planned carefully for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of handling a serious security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Managing computer protection plus preparation for restoring vital information and systems following a security breach requires a continual effort involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security experts can assist your business at any level in your attempt to secure your information system, ranging from security evaluation to creating a complete security program. Some areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Protected Networks
Every organization ought to have a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both proactive and responsive steps. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies procedures to assist IT staff to inventory the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your business operations. Progent can configure auditing utilities, define and execute a secure IT architecture, and recommend processes and policies to maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, design safe offsite connectivity to email and information, and configure an effective virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an economical option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services feature continual online server tracking and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud hosted resources and that are compliant with government and industry data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have stopped working because of a security breakdown. Progent can help assess the damage resulting from the assault, restore normal functions, and recover data lost owing to the breach. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a thorough forensic analysis by examining event logs and using other advanced assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to suggest efficient ways to avoid or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an IT network damaged by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and recovery services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight series of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by legacy signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to manage the complete threat progression including filtering, detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver economical in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that allows 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 network and react to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted due to component breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when necessary, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound 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 infrastructure of leading data security companies to provide web-based management and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration 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: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, retrieve and protect data about your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save up to 50% of time wasted trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require the instant you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's security consultants can provide world-class support in key areas of IT protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security auditing tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of comprehensive network scans to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with scanning utilities and can assist you to analyze audit reports and respond appropriately. Progent's security engineers also can perform web software validation and can perform expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key worldwide security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Get more details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical support for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Find out more details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a broad range of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size top-level support for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

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

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the fundamental competencies and international benchmarks of service that computer security managers are required to achieve. It provides business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their accreditation possess the experience and knowledge to offer efficient security administration and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM consultant to help your organization in key security areas including data protection governance, risk assessment, information security process management, and incident handling support.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included within CISSP include security management procedures, security architecture and models, access control methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP status after thorough examination and extensive hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Learn the details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure System Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 security analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop effective design strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious achievement that signifies expertise in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security consultant able to help companies in the areas of information systems audit process, IT governance, network assets and architecture lifecycle, IT support, protecting information resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and support information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially evaluating your IS control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for defining security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of computer security engineers. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge appropriate to deliver support in key areas of network, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations around the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the help of certified security engineers for all of the security disciplines covered within GIAC accreditation topics such as auditing perimeters, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your organization is located in Corpus Christi Texas and you're looking for cybersecurity consulting expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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