Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

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

To get immediate online help with data security problems, companies in Dallas, TX, have access to expert expertise by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote support staff is available to provide efficient and low-cost assistance with security problems that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of services addresses firewall configuration, email security, protected system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent offers online security support services on a per-minute basis without minimum call duration and without additional fees for setup or after hours service. By charging per minute and by delivering world-class help, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses under control and avoids scenarios where quick solutions result in big expenses.

We've Been Attacked: What Do We Do Now?
In case your business is now fighting a security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Help to find out how to get fast aid. Progent maintains a team of certified network security specialists who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have planned in advance for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack response model outlined by GIAC is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Managing computer protection plus staying ready for recovering critical data and functions following a security breach demands a continual program involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's security experts can help your business at any level in your attempt to protect your IT system, ranging from security assessments to designing a complete security strategy. Some areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Borne Threats.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Any business ought to have a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both proactive and reactive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that works to minimize security gaps. The reactive strategy specifies activities to assist IT personnel to assess the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to build protection into your company processes. Progent can install auditing software, create and implement a secure IT infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies that will maximize the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy secure remote access to email and information, and install an effective VPN.

If your company is interested in an economical way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options feature continual remote network monitoring and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides expertise in recovering networks and devices that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function as a result of a security penetration. Progent can help assess the losses resulting from the assault, return your company to normal functions, and retrieve data lost owing to the event. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a thorough failure analysis by going over event logs and using other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest effective measures to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an environment damaged by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates next generation behavior analysis technology to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to address the complete threat progression including blocking, identification, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out 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
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for immediate attention. Progent can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and restore solution such as 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 unified endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and enables fast recovery of critical data, apps and VMs that have become lost or corrupted due to component failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images/, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can deliver world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your critical data. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of top data security vendors to provide web-based control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, retrieve and safeguard data related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as half of time spent trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for 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 data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need the instant you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security consultants can provide unique expertise in vital facets of network security including:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of comprehensive system tests to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with these and similar tools and can help your company to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also offer web application testing and can conduct expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major industry security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Learn additional information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class technical support for Cisco's entire family of security and VPN technologies such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Read more details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to supporting a wide range of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size top-level consulting for security products from other major firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWALL Expertise
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

CISM Security Support Services
CISM defines the core competencies and worldwide standards of service that information security professionals are required to master. CISM provides business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their CISM possess the experience and skill to offer effective security management and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM support professional to assist your organization in key security disciplines including information security governance, risk assessment, data protection process management, and crisis response support.

Find out additional details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Assistance.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included within CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and test systems, connection control systems, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Get more information concerning Progent's CISSP Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP qualified security consultants have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of thorough testing and extensive hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive understanding of access control systems and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Learn the details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected Network Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a recognized achievement that indicates mastery in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that consultants pass an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-certified security audit consultant trained to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit services, IT administration, network assets and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, protecting information assets, and business continuity preparedness.

Read more details concerning Progent's CISA Consulting Services.

CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk management expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-qualified security engineers for impartially assessing your IT management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing security policies and procedures.

Get additional information concerning Progent's CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Services.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security professionals. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited security consultant has the skills needed to deliver support in important areas of system, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions around the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of certified consultants for any of the network security disciplines addressed under GIAC accreditation programs including assessing perimeters, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

Learn more information concerning Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your business is situated in Dallas or anywhere in Texas and you're looking for cybersecurity engineering help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.