Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote assistance with network security problems, companies in Dallas Texas can find world-class support from Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote support consultants are ready to provide effective and economical assistance with security crises that threaten the productivity of your network. Progent's security consultants are premier to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad array of consulting services addresses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has earned the world's top security credentials including Global Information Assurance Certification and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers online security expertise on a per-minute model with no minimum call duration and without additional charges for setup or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses low and avoids situations where simple solutions turn into big charges.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
In case your network is currently fighting a security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Help to see how to receive immediate help. Progent has a pool of veteran network security experts who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future exploits.

For businesses who have prepared carefully for an attack, the step-by-step incident handling procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of handling a serious security incident.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Coordinating network protection and preparation for recovering vital data and functions after a security breach requires an on-going effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security consultants can assist your business at any level in your efforts to protect your information system, ranging from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Some technologies covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Protected Networks
Every organization should have a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive elements. The proactive plan is a collection of precautions that helps to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to assist security staff to inventory the damage resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, document the experience, and restore business functions as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your company processes. Progent can install auditing utilities, define and build a secure IT architecture, and propose procedures and policies that will maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy protected remote access to email and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an economical option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services feature automated remote server monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in restoring systems and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have stopped working as a result of a security breach. Progent can show you how to assess the damage resulting from the assault, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve data compromised owing to the event. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security issues reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest efficient strategies to prevent or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management provide businesses of all sizes a versatile and cost-effective solution for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT network. In addition to maximizing the security and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT staff to concentrate on line-of-business projects and activities that derive the highest business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
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 and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the entire threat progression including blocking, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and verify a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and allows fast recovery of critical data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged due to component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide world-class support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to recover your critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading data security companies to provide centralized control and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware solution without a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, retrieve and protect information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time thrown away searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants offer unique expertise in key facets of network protection including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with information risk auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of automatic network tests to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with scanning utilities and can help your company to understand audit results and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web application validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important global security standards such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances plus portable handsets. Read additional information concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

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

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
As well as being expert in a wide range of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size top-level consulting for technologies from other popular firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the core competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that computer security professionals are required to master. It provides business management the assurance that those who have earned their accreditation have the background and knowledge to provide effective security administration and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM consultant to help your enterprise in key security disciplines such as data protection governance, vulnerability assessment, information protection process control, and crisis handling support.

Find out more information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Assistance.

CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through verified experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security design and models, access control systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out more information about Progent's CISSP Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP status following thorough testing and significant experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Read additional details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure Network Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your organization to follow modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, develop effective design strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a globally recognized achievement that signifies mastery in IS security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo an extensive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit professional able to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, IT administration, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Find out additional details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise.

CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to verify a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain IS controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and execute 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 risk management expertise is a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially evaluating your IS management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for implementing company-wide security policies.

Read additional details concerning Progent's CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Consulting.

GIAC Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security professionals. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified security consultant has the knowledge necessary to deliver services in key areas of network, information, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the help of certified professionals for any of the network security services addressed within GIAC certification topics such as auditing networks, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your business is located in Dallas Texas and you want computer security consulting, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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