Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote assistance with data security problems, companies in Dallas Texas have access to expert troubleshooting from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support consultants are available to offer effective and economical assistance with security emergencies that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to support environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services covers firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure network architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the industry's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers online security support services on a per-minute basis with no minimum times and without additional charges for setup or off-hour support. By charging per minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps costs low and eliminates situations where quick solutions entail big bills.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
In case your network is now experiencing a security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Support to find out how to receive immediate aid. Progent has a team of seasoned cybersecurity specialists who offer online and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity posture to guard against future attacks.

For companies who have planned carefully for an attack, the step-by-step incident handling model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of handling a major security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating computer security plus staying ready for restoring critical data and functions after an attack demands a continual effort that entails a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified engineers can help your business at whatever level in your efforts to protect your IT system, from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security program. Some areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from Email-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Any company ought to develop a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and responsive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of precautions that works to minimize security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies procedures to assist security personnel to assess the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and restore network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your company processes. Progent can configure auditing utilities, create and execute a safe computer infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy secure offsite connectivity to email and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an affordable option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options include continual remote network monitoring and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud resources and that comply with government security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides expertise in restoring systems and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to assess the damage caused by the assault, restore ordinary business operations, and recover information lost as a result of the assault. Progent's security specialists can also perform a thorough failure analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing other proven assessment techniques. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend effective strategies to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct a network damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to steal its way through a target network. Because of this, ransomware attacks are commonly unleashed on weekends and late at night, when IT personnel may be slower to become aware of a penetration and are least able to mount a quick and forceful defense. The more lateral movement ransomware can make within a victim's network, the more time it will require to restore core IT services and scrambled files and the more data can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to guide you to complete the urgent first steps in responding to a ransomware attack by putting out the fire. Progent's online ransomware experts can assist businesses to locate and quarantine breached servers and endpoints and protect undamaged assets from being penetrated. If your network has been breached by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Solutions
At-home workers commonly use their own computers and usually work in a poorly secured physical space. This multiplies their vulnerability to malware attacks and requires judicious configuration of corporate firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, thorough end-user training, and the creation of security policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned roster of at-home workforce solutions consultants can assist your business to design, implement and maintain a compliant security solution that guards critical information resources in environments that include at-home workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of any size a versatile and affordable solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your dynamic information network. In addition to maximizing the protection and functionality of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT staff to focus on line-of-business initiatives and activities that deliver the highest business value from your network. Read more about Progent's patch management services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight line 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: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to automate the entire malware attack progression including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer economical in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with leading backup/restore technology vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of subscription-based management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS products manage and monitor your backup operations and allow non-disruptive backup and fast recovery of vital files, applications, system images, plus VMs. ProSight DPS lets you protect against data loss resulting from hardware breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware like ransomware, human mistakes, ill-intentioned employees, or software glitches. Managed services available in the ProSight Data Protection selection include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to determine which of these managed services are best suited for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the technology of top information security companies to deliver centralized management and world-class security for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo authentication service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a secured online account and enter your password you are asked to verify who you are on a unit that only you have and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad range of devices can be utilized for this added means of authentication including a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate multiple validation devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo identity validation services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware environment without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting provider. 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 makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect information about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time spent looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you're planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need as soon as you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran engineers can provide world-class consulting support in key facets of IT security such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic network tests to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these utilities and can help your company to understand audit results and react efficiently. Progent's security consultants also can perform web software testing and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important industry security specifications such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless appliances as well as mobile devices. Read the details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco 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 world-class technical expertise for Cisco's entire family of security and VPN technologies including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst switches. Find out more details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and VPN Solutions
As well as supporting a wide array of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size advanced support for technologies from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager defines the fundamental competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that information security managers are expected to master. CISM offers business management the confidence that those who have been awarded their CISM have the experience and skill to provide effective security administration and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM consultant to assist your organization in vital security areas including data protection governance, risk management, information protection process control, and incident response management.

Learn more information about Progent's CISM Security Support Assistance.

CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have earned CISSP certification as a result of verified professional work, extensive 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 area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and test systems, access control systems, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn additional details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts have earned ISSAP accreditation following rigorous examination and substantial hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Get additional details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected System Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise associated with 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 consultant to assist your organization to utilize modern system security engineering theory 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 key system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Services
The CISA accreditation is a recognized qualification that signifies mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo an extensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security professional trained to help companies in the areas of information systems audit services, IT governance, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology support, protecting information resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and support IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to develop and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively auditing your IS control mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for defining security policies.

Get additional information about Progent's CRISC Risk Management Expertise.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified security consultant has the skills appropriate to provide support in important categories of network, data, and application software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions around the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the support of certified professionals for any of the network security capabilities addressed within GIAC certification topics including auditing perimeters, incident response, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Help
If your business is located in Dallas Texas and you want network security help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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