Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote assistance with data security problems, businesses in Dallas Texas can find expert expertise by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support staff is available to offer fast and economical assistance with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to provide help for systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services addresses firewall expertise, email security, protected network architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support team has earned the industry's top security certifications including CISA and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides remote security support services on a per-minute basis with no minimum times and without extra fees for setup or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's billing model keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where quick fixes entail major expenses.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Can We Do?
In case your business is now fighting a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Support to learn how to get fast aid. Progent has a team of seasoned network security experts who can provide remote and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For organizations that have planned beforehand for an attack, the formal incident handling model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of responding to a major security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating network protection plus preparedness for restoring critical information and systems following an attack demands an on-going process that entails an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security engineers can assist your organization at any level in your attempt to protect your information system, ranging from security audits to creating a complete security program. Some technologies supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from Email-Borne Threats.

Planning and Implementing Secure Environments
Every business ought to have a carefully considered security plan that includes both proactive and responsive elements. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy defines procedures to help IT staff to assess the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and revive business activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your business operations. Progent can configure scanning software, create and implement a secure IT architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, deploy secure offsite access to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an affordable way for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages feature automated online network monitoring and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government and industry security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration 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 consulting.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent provides expertise in recovering networks and computers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have ceased to function following a security breach. Progent can show you how to assess the losses caused by the attack, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve information lost owing to the attack. Progent's security specialists can also manage a thorough failure evaluation by going over event logs and using a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend effective measures to prevent or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an IT network victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including filtering, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry data protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent can also help you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and allows rapid restoration of vital files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted due to hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading information security companies to deliver centralized management and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, find and protect data about 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 managing your IT documentation, you can save up to half of time wasted trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need the instant you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants offer unique support in vital facets of IT protection such as:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of automatic network tests to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with testing utilities and can help you to understand audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also offer web software validation and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major global security standards including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security covering stationary wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Read additional details concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class consulting support for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn the details about Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and VPN Solutions
In addition to being expert in a broad range of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes advanced support for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Expertise
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the core competencies and international benchmarks of service that IT security managers are required to achieve. CISM provides business management the confidence that those who have been awarded their certification possess the background and knowledge to provide effective security administration and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified expert to help your organization in key security areas such as information protection governance, risk management, data security program management, and incident handling management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security architecture and test systems, access permission systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts have been awarded ISSAP accreditation following thorough examination and extensive experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the services 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 assist your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that signifies expertise in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass an extensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security engineer able to help companies in the areas of information systems audit services, information technology enforcement, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology support, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially evaluating your IT management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for implementing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified security consultant has the skills necessary to provide services in key categories of system, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified professionals for any of the network security capabilities covered within GIAC accreditation topics such as auditing perimeters, incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Help
If your organization is located in Dallas Texas and you need computer security expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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