Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote assistance with data security issues, businesses in Corpus Christi Texas can find expert troubleshooting from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are available to provide effective and economical help with security issues that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure system design, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor and ISSAP.

Progent provides remote security assistance on a by-the-minute model with no minimum call duration and no extra fees for setup or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's billing model keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where simple solutions entail big bills.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
If you are now faced with a network security emergency, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Help to find out how to get immediate help. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned network security specialists who can provide online and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to protect against future exploits.

For companies that have prepared carefully for an attack, the formal post-attack response procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of responding to a major security attack.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Managing computer security plus preparation for recovering vital data and systems after an attack demands an on-going effort involving an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security professionals can support your organization at any level in your efforts to protect your information system, from security evaluation to creating a complete security strategy. Some technologies covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Threats.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Every company ought to have a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and reactive steps. The proactive strategy is a set of steps that works to minimize security gaps. The reactive strategy specifies activities to help IT staff to evaluate the damage resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and restore network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to design security into your business processes. Progent can configure auditing software, define and build a safe network architecture, and propose processes and policies to optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected remote connectivity to email and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If you are interested in an economical option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options feature automated remote system tracking and immediate resolution of emergencies.

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

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in restoring networks and computers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have ceased to function because of a security breach. Progent can show you how to assess the damage caused by the attack, return your company to normal functions, and recover data compromised owing to the assault. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a comprehensive forensic analysis by going over activity logs and utilizing other advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to propose efficient measures to avoid or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct an environment victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of any size a flexible and affordable solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your dynamic information system. In addition to optimizing the security and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your IT team to concentrate on more strategic projects and tasks that derive the highest business value from your information network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.

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

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to manage the complete malware attack lifecycle including protection, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique needs and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and allows rapid recovery of critical files, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to restore your critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of top data security vendors to deliver centralized control and world-class protection for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft 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 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 fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hosting environment without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single 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 makes it easy to create, maintain, find and protect information about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time wasted trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require when you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified engineers offer unique consulting support in key facets of IT security including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with information risk auditing utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic system tests to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with these utilities and can assist your company to analyze audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also offer web application validation and can conduct expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important worldwide security specifications such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances as well as mobile devices. Get more information about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class consulting services for Cisco's complete family of protection and VPN solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Get more information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
As well as being expert in a broad range of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes top-level support for security products from other important firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

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

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services
CISM identifies the fundamental competencies and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information technology security managers are required to master. CISM offers executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their certification have the background and knowledge to provide effective security management and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM consultant to assist your enterprise in vital security areas such as data protection governance, risk assessment, data security process management, and crisis response support.

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CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security architecture and test systems, access control systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out more details about Progent's CISSP Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of rigorous testing and significant experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Learn more information about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected Network Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 security analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your enterprise to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

Learn the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting Services.

CISA Security Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is an important achievement that signifies mastery in information system security audit and control. Certified 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 professional trained to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit process, IT governance, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to develop and carry out a business continuity strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively assessing your IS management design and with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing security policies.

Find out the details about Progent's CRISC-certified Risk Management Support.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of computer security engineers. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited security consultant possesses the skills needed to provide support in vital categories of network, information, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations around the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the security services addressed under GIAC certification topics including auditing IT infrastructure, security incident response, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Support
If your organization is situated in Corpus Christi Texas and you're trying to find network security help, telephone 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.